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Dragon Ball Fusions debuted in North America a few days ago. Bandai Namco brought it to retail, but as always, you can opt for the digital version. Going with the latter option means you’ll need 4,730 blocks of free space (591.25 MB).

The Nintendo UK store often offers bonuses for those who pre-order games. With Dragon Quest VIII, you’ll receive a free poster by reserving early. You can place an order here.

Today, the Nintendo UK site issued a new interview with two of Animal Crossing’s primary developers. General producer Katsuya Eguchi and Animal Crossing series producer Hisashi Nogami fielded a number of questions.

The two devs weighed in on the Animal Crossing series as a whole, but more general topics as well. They were asked if they anticipated Animal Crossing becoming so popular, approach to making games, what they aim for when creating titles, and more.

We’ve picked out Eguchi and Nogami’s notable responses below.

Nintendo updated the Japanese Kirby: Planet Robobot website once again today with more art. This time, we have a look at various mechanization gimmicks.

The site also contains some talk about the soundtrack. After initially hearing the Haltmann Works Company theme, director Shinya Kumazaki gave an order to composer Hirokazu Ando to “add more weight to make it feel like an evil giant corporation”, so he made a new version. However, it might have felt a bit too “heavy” when it was redone. From there, Ando received feedback to “make it feel more like a more unknown invader” for the final result.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo is out in Europe today, and for that occasion, Nintendo has released an overview trailer that, well, gives an overview on everything that’s new in this update. Give it a watch:

This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

01./00. [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} (¥4.980) – 1.590.629 / NEW
02./00. [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Moon Dual Pack {Pokemon Sun \ Pokemon Moon}
(Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} (¥9.960) – 151.379 / NEW
03./05. [PS4] Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare # (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2016.11.04} (¥7.900) – 11.120 / 142.954 (-57%)
04./02. [PS4] Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star #
(Marvelous) {2016.11.10} (¥7.980) – 9.276 / 82.295 (-86%)
05./01. [PSV] Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star #
(Marvelous) {2016.11.10} (¥6.980) – 8.723 / 76.079 (-88%)
06./09. [PS4] Battlefield 1
(Electronic Arts) {2016.10.21} (¥7.800) – 8.494 / 203.863 (-34%)
07./04. [PS4] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Special Edition (Bethesda Softworks) {2016.11.10} (¥5.980) – 7.587 / 34.917 (-72%)
08./08. [PS4] Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.11.02} (¥7.600) – 6.703 / 87.105 (-53%)
09./12. [3DS] Mario Party: Star Rush (Nintendo) {2016.10.20} (¥4.700) – 6.021 / 63.897 (-9%)
10./07. [3DS] Beyblade Burst (FuRyu) {2016.11.10} (¥5.780) – 5.611 / 22.127 (-66%)
11./17. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Microsoft Game Studios) {2016.06.23} (¥3.600) – 4.932 / 176.825 (+5%)
12./13. [3DS] Monster Hunter Stories # (Capcom) {2016.10.08} (¥5.800) – 4.778 / 271.566 (-25%)
13./18. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.400) – 4.727 / 920.327 (+8%)
14./10. [PS4] Titanfall 2 (Electronic Arts) {2016.10.28} (¥7.800) – 4.583 / 46.709 (-35%)
15./03. [3DS] PriPara Mezameyo! Megami no Dress Design #
(Takara Tomy) {2016.11.10} (¥5.400) – 4.086 / 32.951 (-86%)
16./15. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization # (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.10.27} (¥6.100) – 3.991 / 95.670 (-37%)
17./11. [PSV] World of Final Fantasy #
(Square Enix) {2016.10.27} (¥5.800) – 3.513 / 72.437 (-50%)
18./14. [PS4] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization #
(Bandai Namco Games) {2016.10.27} (¥7.200) – 3.363 / 96.395 (-47%)
19./00. [PSV] Hakuoki: Yuugi Roku – Taishitachi no Daienkai # (Idea Factory) {2016.11.17} (¥6.800) – 3.288 / NEW
20./24. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot (Nintendo) {2016.04.28} (¥4.700) – 3.100 / 469.860

Media Create reported that Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon sold 1.591 million copies in its first three days in Japan. Additional information from the sales tracker reveals that Sun sold 808,000 copies while Moon was at 783,000 units.

If you count the Double Pack which also sold 151,000 units (containing two games in each), the overall total is 1.893 million. That puts Pokemon Sun/Moon at the same scale as X/Y, which sold 1.867 million in first week without the Double Pack. Both also have the relatively same sell-through rate of about 80 percent.

Yesterday, GameXplain held a live stream for Dragon Ball Fusions that spanned three hours. Get a look at the full archived version below.

Once again, some more characters from the upcoming Puyo Puyo Chronicle and their Auto and Special Skills have been revealed via 4Gamer (credit to Perfectly Nintendo for the translation):

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Rafine

A confident and snobby girl from a wealthy family who studies at the Magic School in Primp Town. Despite that, she’s not really that good at magic – martial arts is her specialty.

Auto Skill: Filled with confidence (increases HP)

Special Skill: Etincelle (changes the color of a column of Puyo to yellow)

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Yu-chan & Rei-kun

A sibling pair – and both of them are ghosts. Yu-chan is bright and intelligent, whereas Rei-kun is silent and backs her up in whatever she says and does. They like to talk in puns and riddles.

Auto Skill: Beyond the Veil (increases Recovery)

Special Skill: Silent Step (lowers the defense of all opponents)

Head past the break for more characters!

With the release of Pokemon Sun & Moon, the Nintendo 3DS has reached a pretty important milestone in Japan: on Nintendo’s home turf, 3DS software sales now top 100 million. According to Famitsu, the 3DS is only the third platform to reach that number in the last 20 years, after the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation 2.

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