Famitsu has published a listing of the best-selling games in Japan for the month of July. The sales comes from Enterbrain data taken between June 25 through July 29.
Here’s the list in full:
01. [NDS] Pokemon Black/White 2 – 855,502 / 2,474,123
02. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 430,185 / NEW
03. [WII] Kirby’s Dream Collection – 131,720 / NEW
04. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey IV – 121,401 / NEW
05. [PS3] Persona 4 Arena – 117,318 / NEW
06. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigina Orb – 116,867 / NEW
07. [3DS] Rune Factory 4 – 107,513 / NEW
08. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland 3D – 104,850 / 848,817
09. [PSP] Digimon World Re:Digitize – 103,345 / NEW
10. [3DS] Danball Senki Baku Boost – 96,196 / NEW
This is definitely one of the stranger games Nintendo has published…
Code of Princess launches in North America on October 9. You can take a look at the game’s official site here.
Source: Atlus PR
NES Open Tournament Golf will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on August 15 for 500 yen (Nintendo’s site actually says August 10, but that’s can’t be right…) Screenshots of the game can be found above.
You may have seen the video above split into two Japanese clips awhile back. It’s now available in one long trailer, and more importantly, it’s in English.
Hironobu Sakaguchi’s last big game was The Last Story for Wii. He has since moved on to iOS and just recently released his first title for the platform, Party Wave.
It’s unknown what Sakaguchi (and his Mistwalker studio) plan on doing next, but it doesn’t sound like he’ll be tackling any large-scale projects anytime soon.
Sakaguchi has expressed an interest in making “games with a small production team” and would like to “build up a good and solid team.” At the moment, Mistwalker isn’t working on any “big RPG projects.”
“Currently we don’t have any big RPG projects. At this time I would like to create games with a small production team and build up a good and solid team. I don’t know what will happen down the road. But that unknown is the life’s enjoyment, I think.”
This doesn’t necessarily mean that Sakaguchi has ruled out another big RPG for the future. Maybe Nintendo will call on him to make a game for Wii U some day!
Famitsu chatted with another handful of Japanese developers this week. The magazine once again asked a number of directors and producers to talk about their future plans.
Some of the participants include Katsura Hashino, Kenichiro Takaki, and Capcom’s Hiroyuki Kobayashi. There’s a lot of vague talk about upcoming projects, but the comments are very much interesting. Hashino, for instance, revealed that he’s working on a surprise collaboration while Takaki has already confirmed that another Rune Factory game will be made.
Check out a summary of the developer remarks below.
