1.0The Escapisthttps://www.escapistmagazine.comSteven Bogos Legacy Authorhttps://www.escapistmagazine.com/author/stevenbogos/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="kHZIfE83qD"><a href="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/star-wars-battlefront-tops-japanese-sales-charts/"><i>Star Wars Battlefront</i> Tops Japanese Sales Charts</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/star-wars-battlefront-tops-japanese-sales-charts/embed/#?secret=kHZIfE83qD" width="600" height="338" title="“<i>Star Wars Battlefront</i> Tops Japanese Sales Charts” — The Escapist" data-secret="kHZIfE83qD" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,o=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage);else if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(!t);else if(!(t.secret||t.message||t.value));else if(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret));else{for(var r,s,a,i=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),l=0;l<n.length;l++)n[l].style.display="none";for(l=0;l<i.length;l++)if(r=i[l],e.source!==r.contentWindow);else{if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(s=parseInt(t.value,10)))s=1e3;else if(~~s<200)s=200;r.height=s}if("link"===t.message)if(s=d.createElement("a"),a=d.createElement("a"),s.href=r.getAttribute("src"),a.href=t.value,!o.test(a.protocol));else if(a.host===s.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(o);else{o=!0;for(var e,t,r,s=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),n=0;n<i.length;n++){if(!(r=(t=i[n]).getAttribute("data-secret")))r=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),t.src+="#?secret="+r,t.setAttribute("data-secret",r);if(s||a)(e=t.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),t.parentNode.replaceChild(e,t);t.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:r},"*")}}}}(window,document); </script> Battlefront sold more than all of the other games in the top five combined. There’s a stereotype that western games, and in particular, western shooters are a joke over in Japan, and sell very poorly. But just like most sterotypes, it is actually quite far from the truth. In fact, games like Battlefield and Call of Duty consistently do well in the land of the rising sun, and EA game’s latest Battlefield re-skin: Star Wars Battlefront has done absolutely gangbusters, topping the software sales charts by an insane amount. Battlefront moved a whopping 124,000 units this month, and managed to […]