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

1. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 727,791 (2,608,417)
2. [PS4] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai Namco, 03/26/20) – 75,998 (New)
3. [NSW] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai Namco, 03/26/20) – 61,571 (New)
4. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 14,996 (3,542,524)
5. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 13,819 (745,127)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,577 (2,840,930)
7. [NSW] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Nintendo, 03/06/20) – 11,501 (218,394)
8. [PS4] Nioh 2 (Koei Tecmo, 03/12/20) – 11,270 (129,302)
9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 10,355 (3,623,274)
10. [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,908 (1,331,839)

Mr. Driller DrillLand

This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlights include eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2020, Pro Yakyuu Famitsa 2020, and Mr. Driller DrillLand. Scans of all games can be found below.

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Pokemon Sword and Shield

Glitches and exploits seem to come hand in hand with Pokemon games. The latest entry, Pokemon Sword/Shield, was just recently impacted by one major issue in which hacked creatures could be sent through Surprise Trade. The situation resulted in crashes and could prevent online interactions. Fortunately, the games were eventually patched.

Another notable exploit seems to have popped up recently. Players have discovered that the results of an online match can be negated, and in a relatively simple manner. All that’s needed is to push the power button to disconnect the Switch at a specific time after losing a match. If it’s done the right way, the loser won’t lose points for the match and the winner won’t gain any points for their victory.

The bug has already circulated quite extensively on social media, including how it can be performed. Here’s a look at it in action:

In this month’s issue of Nintendo Dream, Fire Emblem: Three Houses directors Toshiyuki Kusakihara and Genki Yokota were interviewed. The new Cindered Shadows DLC was one of the topics brought up during the discussion.

When asked how the team went about choosing which characters from the main story would appear in the side story, Kusakihara explained:

Following today’s news that The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV is on the way to Switch, NIS America has shared a proper announcement. We also have a trailer for the game.

Here’s the full roundup:

Level-5 has had major issues developing the next entry in the Inazuma Eleven series going back to 2016. A new game isn’t much closer with the company announcing today that Inazuma Eleven: Great Road of Heroes likely won’t be ready until at least 2021.

Here’s some new information about the project:

Update: Bumped to the top with the addition of DuckTales QuackShots.


April Fools’ Day 2020 is in full swing, and as usual, companies are getting into the spirit with fake news stories, announcements, jokes, and more to celebrate the day.

We’ll be rounding up some of the highlights over the next day or so. You can find a collection of notable Nintendo-related April Fools’ Day happenings below.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III is coming to Switch this summer. NIS America and Falcom’s support isn’t stopping there, as it’s been announced today that The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV will also be released on the console.

As the RPG series continues, this will be the final entry in the Trails of Cold Steel arc. It will not feature the standard student-life setting due to what took place in the last game.

Nintendo Switch

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:

Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia

Happinet has published the fourth producer letter for Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia. This time around, Kazuhiro Igarashi introduces the game’s Records of History mode and options settings.

Here’s the full rundown:


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