The latest Japanese charts are out, and this week gives us one of the most interesting results of the year. At long last, Dragon Quest X released on Wii, to much speculation about how the game would perform.

For this is no traditional mainline release of the nation's most successful franchise. Square-Enix took the bold step of turning the Wii game into a full-blooded massively-multiplayer online game, subscription fees and all. First week sales would never tell the full story of the game's hypothetical success, but they could at least give us an indication of whether gamers were willing to go for it.

Luckily for the publisher, initial sales are solid. It was never going to approach the millions-in-a-day figures of the offline mainline games, but the game shifted a good portion of its hefty initial shipment (curiously, there's quite a disparity between Media Create's figures below and Famitsu's - the latter giving the game almost 60k more first week sales). If enough people stay on with the MMO past the free trial period, Dragon Quest X may be one of Square-Enix's most lucrative projects yet.

Dragon Quest X will also get a Wii U release in Japan at a later time. Neither version has been confirmed for a western release just yet.

Here is the full software chart for the week of July 30th to August 5th.

The success of Dragon Quest X, plus relevant bundles, pushes Wii hardware figures up to the sort of numbers we've not seen for many months for the little white box. 3DS remains high in the second week following the launch of the 3DS XL, while Vita slumps below the 10k mark once again.