One of the more interesting tidbits concerns Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. That title ended up selling more in 2018 (458,675 copies) compared to 2017 (341,531 copies).

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First three Focus Spirits of “Now You’re Playing With Spirit Power!” Spirit Board event revealed

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Ahead of the “Now You’re Playing With Spirit Power!” Spirit Board event set to take place in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate this weekend, Nintendo has officially revealed three of the retro Spirits that will be part of the Focus.

As was somewhat teased in the promotional image that was put out for the event yesterday, both the Donkey Kong & Lady and Sukapon Spirits will be highlighted. In addition, the Link (The Legend of Zelda) Spirit will appear more frequently. Each of these three Spirits are Legend class.

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Video: Onimusha: Warlords Switch vs. PS2 comparison

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Onimusha: Warlords is finally appearing on a Nintendo system for the first time with its Switch release. View a comparison below showing how it stacks up to the PlayStation 2 original.

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Umihara Kawase Fresh! planned for the first half of 2019

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Umihara Kawase Fresh! has a slightly more specific release window. The game will release in either spring or summer of this year, Success has confirmed.

That news comes from an HTML5 game, accessible here. It involves picking up New Year’s pocket money packets. You can click to jump, click again in mid-air to do a second jump, click a third time to make the boar glide down via kite, and a fourth time to close the kite.

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Arc System Works making a new Kunio-kun game for Switch featuring Masao Kobayashi

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The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee has outed a new game for Switch called Izasuze! Kobayashi-san. Not much is present, as we only have the associated photo above. However, the listing does confirm plans to feature Masao Kobayashi from the Kunio-kun series.

Arc System Works should be making an official announcement for Izasuze! Kobayashi-san soon. We’ll bring you the latest information as soon as we have it.

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Dragon Quest XI S gets introductions for Gemma, Vince, and Mia Japanese voice actors

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When Square Enix last spoke about Dragon Quest XI S at Jump Festa 2019, we heard that some sort of surprise was planned for January 1. That appears to be a low-key “Kaiun Omikuji S” fortune page which now features introductions for Japanese voice actors for characters Gemma, Vince, and Mia.

You can listen to each of their clips below:

Gemma (voiced by Ayako Kawasumi) – Voice Sample #1, #2
Vince (voiced by Tomokazu Sugita) – Voice Sample #1, #2, #3
Mia (voiced by Inori Minase) – Voice Sample #1, #2, #3

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UK: Switch physical game sales up 90.1% in 2018 compared to 2017, hardware rose 20%

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New data has arrived from the UK based on sales generated in 2018. Boxed video game sales revenue came in at £770 million, which is a decline of 2.8%. There were also 22 million titles sold physically for a drop of 7.1%.

We can thank Switch for preventing a bigger decline. The system’s software sales were up 90.1% year-over-year and revenue rose by 73.4%. Switch was the only platform with increased software sales compared to the previous year.

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Natsume says Harvest Moon: Light of Hope set new sales records, announcements coming “in the near future”

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Natsume president and CEO Hiro Maekawa has delivered a new message to fans. In it, we learn some interesting information about Harvest Moon: Light of Hope Special Edition and more.

According to Maekawa, the latest Harvest Moon game “performed well beyond our forecast and even set new sales record with the number of both physical and digital combined.” Natsume is also preparing “several new titles that will be announced in the near future”.

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Smash Bros. Ultimate – “Now You’re Playing With Spirit Power!” Spirit Board event announced

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Nintendo has announced the next Spirit Board event for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The theme this time is “Now You’re Playing With Spirit Power!”, featuring icons from the NES, Famicom, and Famicom Disk System. While active, such spirits will show up more regularly and you’ll earn more rewards.

The upcoming event kicks off on January 4. It’ll last for three days.

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