Famitsu software sales (8/19/24 – 8/25/24) – Top 30
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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [NSW] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 – 10,198 / 266,189
2. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 8,491 / 5,971,181
3. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 8,448 / 1,396,628
4. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 7,113 / 7,885,519
5. [NSW] Minecraft – 6,847 / 3,612,660
6. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,319 / 5,570,521
7. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 4,200 / 5,398,801
8. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD – 4,193 / 187,168
9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru – 3,368 / 1,125,053
10. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 3,235 / 1,919,269
Super Mario Party Jamboree reveals playable Pauline
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Pauline has become more prominent in recent years after she was featured in Super Mario Odyssey, and it’s now been revealed that she’ll be playable in Super Mario Party Jamboree.
That news comes from the newly-opened Japanese website. A screenshot of the game confirms her appearance, which we have below.
More: NDCube, Super Mario Party Jamboree, top
Shadow of the Ninja: Reborn launch trailer
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The launch trailer for Shadow of the Ninja: Reborn is now available. A remake of 1990 classic, the game has returned with revamped graphics and features.
Catch up on everything you need to know in the following overview:
Gundam Breaker 4 launch trailer
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Going along with today’s launch of Gundam Breaker 4, we’ve got a new launch trailer. Bandai Namco is celebrating the latest addition to the action series.
Details about the game can be found in the rundown provided by the following eShop listing:
More: Bandai Namco, Gundam Breaker 4
Muse Dash reveals western physical release
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Muse Dash was already released physically in Japan, but the west is now getting the same treatment and there’ll even be a collector’s edition. PM Studios will bring the title to retail overseas on January 21, 2025. Pre-orders are now open on Amazon here.
Muse Dash will be sold standalone and in the form of a collector’s edition. The latter includes the game, Joy-Con caps, a cartridge case, and three lenticular cards.
Here’s some information about the title:
More: Flyhigh Works, Muse Dash, PeroPeroGames, X.D. Network
Bloodless, retro-stylized 2D action-adventure game, slated for Switch
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Bloodless will be appearing on Switch, publisher 3D Realms and developer Point N’ Sheep revealed today. The title will launch later in 2024.
Bloodless is a retro-stylized 2D action-adventure game with combat inspired by the classics of the Souls-like genre. Players will go a journey of redemption as Tomoe, a ronin who has relinquished her blade and forsaken bloodshed and is now looking to free Bakugawa from the evil Shogun Akechi.
More: 3D Realms, Bloodless, Point N' Sheep
Multiplayer dating sim Doomsday Paradise announced for Switch
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Doomsday Paradise will soon be appearing on Switch, publisher Astrolabe Games and developer Lemonade Flashbang have announced. It launches on September 12, 2024.
Doomsday Paradise is a multiplayer dating sim about finding love before the apocalypse. For the Switch version, a whole chunk of new content from its “Wave 2” of post-release updates will be included.
A ton of details about the game can be found in the following rundown provided by Astrolabe:
Final Fantasy creator believes Final Fantasy I is the series’ “most complete” entry
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What’s the “most complete” entry in the Final Fantasy series? According to original creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, that honor falls to Final Fantasy I.
Sakaguchi shared a few words about the game in an interview with Invervse. Sakaguchi said that Final Fantasy I is the “closest in its final form based on what we set out to achieve.” If he didn’t go with that game, Final Fantasy VI would be the next choice given how it stands out in the franchise and was the last true pixel art entry.
More: Final Fantasy, interview, Square Enix
Shashingo: Learn Japanese With Photography next week
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Shashingo: Learn Japanese With Photography arrives on Switch next week, an eShop listing reveals. It’ll be ready to go on September 3, 2024.
Shashingo: Learn Japanese With Photography was announced for Switch in 2022. The PC version made it out at the start of the year, and now a few months later, it’s about to drop on Nintendo’s console.
Here’s an official overview:
Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus update out now on Switch (version 1.1.1), patch notes
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The first patch for Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus is now live on Switch.
The update includes various fixes for major bugs and simple glitches. As of today, the Switch version is now in line with the PC release. There was previously uncertainty about updates on consoles as Humble Games, the official publisher, recently restructured.
