This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [WIU] Pikmin 3
02./00. [3DS] Youkai Watch
03./01. [PS3] Earth Defense Force 2025
04./05. [3DS] Friend Collection: New Life #
05./00. [WIU] New Super Luigi U
06./02. [PSV] Toukiden #
07./03. [PSP] Toukiden
08./00. [PS3] Dead Island: Riptide
09./00. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
10./07. [3DS] Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
11./04. [PS3] Gundam Breaker
12./11. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf #
13./12. [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
14./08. [PS3] The Last of Us
15./00. [PSP] Hanayaka Kana, Ware ga Ichizoku – Tasogare Polarstar #
16./20. [PSP] Dangan-Ronpa (PSP the Best) #
17./13. [3DS] Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode
18./10. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl
19./15. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition #
20./14. [PS3] Atelier Escha & Logy: The Alchemist of Empty Twilight #
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 29,594
Wii U – 22,199
Vita – 15,662
3DS – 13,841
PS3 – 12,698
PSP – 5,830
Wii – 1,434
Xbox 360 – 396
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS LL – 29,716
Vita – 20,776
3DS – 14,506
PS3 – 11,683
Wii U – 8,251
PSP – 5,768
Wii – 1,334
Xbox 360 – 313
Next week, The Location Inc. will publish a new voice and text chat application in Japan. Users can participate in voice calls for up to four people or participate in other chat features with up to ten people. You can send messages, drawings, and pictures. It’s also possible to create drawings with other users simultaneously. Sounds quite a bit more involved than Swapnote, doesn’t it?
Minna no Oshaberi Chat will be available on July 24 for 980 yen.
Nintendo has registered two trademarks that may have some sort of ties to Seaman. “Mysterious Pet: Legend of the Fish With A Human Face” and “Mysterious Partner: Legend of the Fish With A Human Face” were recently registered by the company in Japan.
Seaman creator Yoot Saito hinted to Nikkei at one point that he could be working on a Seaman-related project. These two trademarks do sound like they’re related to the franchise in a way, perhaps as a spiritual successor…
Namco Bandai’s mystery 3DS title is none other than “Jump Legend Biography”. The company will be packaging together classic Famicom and Super Famicom anime games that are related to the Jump series. It’s a port collection, essentially.
Dragon Power, Saint Seiya: The Golden Legend, Saint Seiya: The Golden Legend Final Chapter, Charge! Men’s Private School, and Go! Go! Ackman 3 have been confirmed thus far. More games will be announced in the future.
Help lost Pikachu and friends find their way home when Pokémon Rumble U comes exclusively to the Nintendo eShop in August for digital download.
17th July, 2013— Nintendo of Europe & The Pokémon Company International today announced the upcoming Wii U Nintendo eShop release of Pokémon Rumble U: a fun packed action game, with intuitive controls and wild battles.
Pokémon Rumble U is the tale of the Toy Pokémon’s great adventure: after a mishap in the Toy Pokémon Shop, a few Pokémon capsules are swept down a river and washed up on a strange riverbank. Our heroes set out to find their way back to the Toy Pokémon Shop. Along the way our heroes discover all is not right: Can you help our friends discover why some of the Toy Pokémon are fighting each other, and what the enemy Pokémon are plotting?
Coda Games has reached out to Nintendo in hopes of becoming a Wii U developer. Owner John Rhee told us that Nintendo of America’s Dan Adelman guided him through the application process, and he’s hoping to hear back from the Big N soon.
Some of you may be aware that Coda Games created a Kickstarter for Liege, “a party-based, tactical role-playing game”. PS4 and PS Vita versions were just added in as stretch goals yesterday, and the Wii U could soon head down the same path.
According to Rhee, he’d “love” to release Liege on Wii U, mainly due to the fact that SNES titles such as Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger sparked his interest in RPGs. If he becomes a Wii U dev before the Kickstarter ends, the console will “absolutely” become a part of the campaign as a stretch goal.
And just in case you were wondering: Rhee also said that there aren’t any plans for a 3DS version “at this stage”.
