One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 pre-orders top 500,000
Namco Bandai sequel out March 20 in Japan.
March 4, 2013 / 07:52 AM EDT / (@salromano)

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 pre-orders in Japan have already exceeded 500,000, Namco Bandai president and representative director Satoshi Oshita confirmed during a presentation for the game today.

The first game, launched in March last year, shipped 1.2 million units worldwide. It sold a total of 826,000 in Japan, according to Game Data Museum. The sequel is due out for PlayStation 3 and PS Vita on March 20 in Japan, and for PlayStation 3 this summer in North America and Europe.

A demo is scheduled to launch in Japan later this week.

Thanks, Game Jouhou.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/matheusoda Matheus Gritz

    One Piece Kaizoku Musou 3 confirmed for next year! LOL

    • http://twitter.com/Kinbushi Richard Tooth

      I would buy it gurarara! :-)

      • http://www.facebook.com/matheusoda Matheus Gritz

        Everyone will! I love One Piece and I hope the third one gets a PS4 release as well, since I don’t have a PS3 and will save money for the 4th.

  • http://twitter.com/Kinbushi Richard Tooth

    Didn’t sell too well overseas then? I guess we got lucky that its the second one is being localised :-)

    • MrKappa

      I don’t know how well in did in the west but it certainly didn’t reach half a million.

    • Noctis_nox

      It did well if we are seeing the 2nd one outside Japan. :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adol-Christian/100002643492922 Adol Christian

    I want to see how well the Vita version does.

    • Kurisu Makise

      I’m wondering how much of those pre-orders were for Vita.

  • http://twitter.com/Renzouri Lee

    I hope there’s a demo out for North America as well. (Either way, it’s an instant purchase anyways)

  • zangetsukakashi

    need a Toriko game… :(

  • http://twitter.com/Elvick Elvick

    Wish it were coming to Vita in NA. ): I’d have even imported from Europe. D:<

    Oh well. Maybe the Asia version will have English.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adol-Christian/100002643492922 Adol Christian

      It probably will.

      • Kurisu Makise

        I really hope so.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ae.gon.9 Ae Gon

    Namco Bandai…Worst company ever

  • EspadaKiller

    Looks like One Piece is more popular in Japan than the rest of the world. But Naruto is more popular worldwide than Japan. I definitely prefer Naruto over One Piece though!

    Still not liking the Musou style for One Piece, hope they will release a fighting game like Naruto soon, although unlikely :(

    • sherimae1324

      actually one piece is the best selling manga it tops naruto, bleach, fairy tail, ao no exorcist in sales combined thats how amazing it is in japan ^_^