During its first week of release in Japan, Final Fantasy XIII-2 sold 524,000 copies with the PlayStation 3 version topping the charts. The Xbox 360 version only reached 48th, largely due to the low number of Xbox 360 customers in Japan. Initial sales have been notably lower than what they were for the game's predecessor which sold 1.5 million units in its first week.[37] By the end of the year, the game had sold 697,146 units, becoming the fifth best-selling 2011 game in Japan. It was just below four handheld video games, making it the highest-selling home console game in Japan that year.[38] By the beginning of March 2012, the game has sold 811,000 copies in Japan, including 798,000 for the PS3 and 13,000 for the Xbox 360. In the United States, the game sold 350,000 copies in its first month, making it the second best-selling game of February 2012, just below Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.[39] In the United Kingdom, Final Fantasy XIII-2 became the best-selling game of February 2012, just above Metal Gear Solid HD Collection,[40][41] after having displaced previous UK top-seller FIFA 12.[42]
