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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

Switch – 40,834
PS4 – 20,174
PS4 Pro – 6,497
Vita – 3,955
New 2DS LL – 3,640
New 3DS LL – 2,736
2DS – 466
Xbox One X – 70
Xbox One – 56

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

Switch – 40,587
PS4 – 13,025
PS4 Pro – 5,146
New 2DS LL – 3,828
New 3DS LL – 2,653
Vita – 2,393
2DS – 337
Xbox One – 73
Xbox One X – 62

And here are the software charts:

Nintendo has announced the next Splatoon 2 update for July. Two new weapons are on the way, which are literally known as Kugel Shriver and Explosher in Japanese.

Here’s a look:

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Game Informer conducted a new interview with Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee director Junichi Masuda at E3 yesterday. Below are a few excerpts:

Blade Strangers

Blade Strangers is launching sometime this summer in the west. As for Japan, a release date of August 30 was announced today.

Here’s a new trailer:

Blade Strangers will cost 4,000 yen physically and 3,700 yen digitally.

Mario Tennis Aces

This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Mario Tennis Aces (NSW) – 8/8/9/8
PixelJunk Monsters 2 (NSW/PS4) – 7/8/7/8
New Gundam Breaker (PS4) – 7/7/7/8
The Coma: Recut (NSW) – 7/7/7/7
Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge (NSW) – 6/6/7/6

Nintendo finished the first day of the E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles with two competitive champions and a host of bonus announcements that built on today’s Nintendo Direct: E3 2018 video presentation.

Nintendo crowned ZeRo of Chile the champion of the Super Smash Bros. Invitational 2018 tournament. A longtime player of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, ZeRo defeated seven other top-ranked Super Smash Bros. players from around the world to successfully defend his title from Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Invitational in 2014. ZeRo emerged as the top player of the new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate game for the Nintendo Switch system. In the final match, ZeRo used Mario to defeat runner-up MkLeo of Mexico, who played as Sonic.

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During the E3 Nintendo Direct presentation today, it was announced that Smash Bros. Ultimate will support GameCube controllers. It makes sense then that Nintendo is preparing a new GameCube controller adapter.

GameSpot heard from a Nintendo representative that the accessory will be released alongside Smash Bros. Ultimate in December. Additionally, it will cost $20.

A new line of Smash-branded GameCube controllers are also planned for later this year.

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The official website for Smash Bros. Ultimate saw its grand opening today. It houses pages for every character confirmed thus far.

On the character pages, each portrait is accompanied by a stage. It’s here that nine more returning stages have been discovered.


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