Japanese eShop update (8/6/14)
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This week’s Japanese eShop update is as follows:
3DS
Downloadable Titles
Simple DL Series Vol. 32 The Battle Robo Dai Ky?t? Scramble – 520 yen
Castle Clout 3D K?j? Sensen – 500 yen
Cubit Run Button Running Action – 300 yen
Cubit Run Button Running Action DEMO – FREE
Dakkan Shirei Majo Dungeon – Nushi to Tamenara Yaraneba Narumai – 500 yen
Dokopon Choice – Sakamichi no Aporon 1 – 9-kan Pack – 3,960 yen
Dokopon Choice – Shij? Saiky? no Denshi: Kenichi Vol. 5 41 – 50-kan Pack – 4,400 yen
Maijin Sh?j? – Chronicle 2D Act – 400 yen
Mezon do Ma? – 864 yen
Senran Kagura 2 – Shinku (retail title) – 6,998 yen (from 8/7)
Dragon Ball Heroes Ultimate Mission 2 (retail title) – 6,145 yen (from 8/7)
Nekketsu Mah? Monogatari DEMO – FREE
Tetsud? Nippon! Rosen Tabi Kashima Rinkai Tetsud?-hen DEMO – FREE
Virtual Console
NA
Wii U
Downloadable Titles
Simple DL Series for Wii U Vol. 2 The Misshitsu kara no Dasshutsu 2 – Kesareta 19 no Koiku – 1,000 yen
Virtual Console
Final Fight (Super Famicom) – 823 yen
Rockman 7 – Shukumei no Taiketsu! (Mega Man 7, Super Famicom) – 823 yen
Fire Emblem: Seimano K?seki (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen
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Azure Striker Gunvolt approved for North America, release date soon
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Nintendo of America has signed off on Azure Striker Gunvolt, meaning the game should be launching in the states fairly soon. On that note, Inti Creates intends to announce a release date soon.
The company shared today’s update on Twitter:
North American version of the master "Azure Striker GUNVOLT" has been approved by the NOA! We are very happy!! #gunvolt
— gunvolt_official (@GunvoltOfficial) August 6, 2014
We are preparing to announce the release date. Please wait just a little bit. 🙂
— gunvolt_official (@GunvoltOfficial) August 6, 2014
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The Legend of Dark Witch footage
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Steel Diver: Sub Wars version 3.0 out now
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The 3.0 update for Steel Diver: Sub Wars is now available. This version of the game adds a bunch of new additions – they’re all outlined in the patch notes below.
XtremeSports not hitting the North American 3DS VC this week after all
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WayForward’s XtremeSports will not be available on the North American 3DS Virtual Console as originally planned. It’s coming to Europe this Thursday, but gamers in the US will need to wait a few more weeks.
WayForward wrote on Twitter:
#XtremeSports is set to release on 8.7.14 for EU! Just 2 more days! The North American release is a few weeks later! pic.twitter.com/iueWP33EOd
— WayForward (@WayForward) August 5, 2014
@PulsemanNeoHero Small hiccup, we're waiting for more info from @NintendoAmerica regarding our new release date for #XtremeSports
— WayForward (@WayForward) August 5, 2014
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Shovel Knight sold 180,000 copies in its first month
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Yacht Club Games shared a comprehensive breakdown of Shovel Knight’s sales in a new blog post.
In its first week, the indie title managed to sell 75,000 copies (taking out Kickstarter pre-sales). Yacht Club said, “It blew our 2x-4x pre-sale expectation out of the water”.
There are a few reasons we think our preorder prediction ended up being such a conservative estimate. One is…we were a Kickstarter! That’s not quite the same thing as a preorder. People could only attain the preorder for a limited time, so the stats aren’t 100% aligned with what a preorder would do. We think due to the PC nature of Kickstarter, we saw a higher amount of sales on Nintendo’s platform when the game actually got released. Nintendo users are more inclined to buy the game day one rather than through a preorder on Kickstarter. Finally, the preorder prediction isn’t a set in stone statistic, but more like a guideline for what to expect. We had done a lot of promotion and marketing at conventions and on media sites to prove ourselves over the course of the year, and we think people responded to it in kind! Nintendo also did an amazing job supporting us through their store placement and own marketing channels.
More: indie, sales, Shovel Knight, top, Yacht Club Games
Protect Me Knight sequel heading to the Japanese 3DS eShop next month
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Ancient is developing a sequel to Protect Me Knight, a Japanese indie title for the Xbox 360.
The new game features four-player local co-op, “about ten times” as much content as the original, and music from Yuzo Koshiro music. Two new characters have been shown thus far: an older knight on a toy horse and an archer.
A price point for the Protect Me Knight hasn’t been announced, though it will be “about twice” the Xbox 360 version given the large increase in content.
Protect Me Knight is heading to the Japanese 3DS eShop in September. At the moment, an international release hasn’t been decided.
Check out some footage from the original Protect Me Knight below:
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Muteki officially announces Dragon Fantasy: Book I for 3DS
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The 3DS version of Dragon Fantasy: Book I was made official through an official announcement published by Muteki today.
The game will feature several additions/changes, including:
– Ogden now has allies so that he doesn’t have to grind by his lonesome
– Bottom screen gives players info such as a map, quest log, inventory screen, beastiary
– Improved inventory system with sorting and filtering
– Purchase multiple items at once
– 3D support
Random battles have also been removed from Dragon Fantasy: Book I – for the most part anyway. Battles are still random on the world map, but not in towns, caves, dungeons, or caverns. In these areas, monsters will appear on screen and will take a step each time the hero does. You can choose to face monsters on their own terms or even avoid them completely.
Dragon Fantasy: Book I is currently “in the final testing phases before submission”. You can find screenshots from the game above.
Source: Muteki PR
BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma still coming to North America
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Arc System Works confirmed plans to bring BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma to the North American 3DS eShop well over a year ago. The good news is that the game is still coming. The bad news is there’s still no date, and a European release isn’t planned just yet.
Arc System Works told Siliconera:
“As far as I can tell you, we have just reached the stage to release it for the U.S., so we have not discussed releasing it in the EU area yet.”
Another tidbit from Arc System Works: there are no plans to localize their series of Escape Adventure 3DS games.
Adelman shares another comment on his departure from Nintendo – eShop “in good hands”
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Dan Adelman has issued his own personal response about leaving Nintendo on a website he launched today.
Adelman was the founder of Nintendo of America’s digital distribution business and remained with the company for nine years. Today, however, Adelman revealed he left the company last week and is creating his own business to help smaller developers in various ways.
In any case, here’s what Adelman had to say about Nintendo – in which he also states that the eShop “is in good hands”:
