In its first week of sales during the last week of February, 36,000 copies of Asura's Wrath ended up in gamers hands, NPD tells Joystiq. Bizarrely, despite Syndicate's business savvy nature, EA's big reboot came up approximately 2,000 copies short of matching the Capcom god destroyer, with just 34,000 copies sold at retail in February. As NPD doesn't track digital sales, the launch sales number is a comparison of each title's console numbers -- in so many words, Syndicate could've sold many thousands of digital copies, but they aren't accounted for here.

We're proscribing the disparity as a direct correlation to our own reviews of each game, of course, with only a half star difference between the two (which apparently equates to roughly 2,000 units). The two games launched on February 21 in North America, giving each eight days of February -- including this year's "leap" day -- to arrive at said sales numbers.