The Japanese Pokemon Sun/Moon website has been updated with more screenshots and art from the two games. We’ve rounded up the images below.
The Pokemon Company has now sent out an official announcement about today’s news pertaining to new Pokemon featured in Sun/Moon.
First, we have the following art:
And here’s the lineup of Pokemon:
Name: Tapu Koko
Type: Electric/Fairy
Tapu Koko is the guardian deity of Melemele Island, one of the islands of the Alola region. Tapu Koko’s Ability is Electric Surge, an Ability which has never been seen before. The Electric Surge Ability fills the field around the Pokémon’s feet with electricity when it appears, raising the power of any Electric-type moves for Pokémon on the ground and preventing any Pokémon from falling asleep.
Name: Charjabug
Type: Bug/Electric
Charjabug is the first Evolution of Grubbin, a new Alola region Pokémon revealed last month. Charjabug’s Battery Ability allows it to raise the power of allies’ special moves.
Along with newly-revealed Pokemon, a returning feature has been confirmed for Sun/Moon. We now know that it will be possible to ride Pokemon in the two games. You can see how this looks in Sun/Moon through the screenshot above.
Here are a couple of other random screenshots shared today:
Yesterday, seven new Pokemon leaked for Pokemon Sun/Moon. That prompted The Pokemon Company to release a new trailer for the game showing each creature officially. We now have the English equivalent of the video, posted below.
Atlus released a new commercial for Etrian Odyssey V. In Japan, the game is due out on August 4. View the advert below.
Circle Entertainment isn’t slowing down its efforts to localize 3DS eShop games. Today, the publisher announced plans to bring over Kingdom’s Item Shop (may go by a different name in the west) from PUMO, originally released in 2014.
Here’s the news from Twitter:
Really addictive! You guys don't miss this one after it released. It won't be expensive for sure. pic.twitter.com/iHUDSl2dCK
— CIRCLE Ent. (@CIRCLE_Ent) July 1, 2016
And here’s the original Japanese trailer:
This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [3DS] Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns
02./00. [PSV] Caligula
03./00. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition
04./00. [WIU] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
05./00. [PSV] Refrain no Chika Meikyuu to Majo no Ryodan #
06./02. [3DS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice #
07./01. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Don Don! Mystery Adventure
08./00. [PS4] Umbrella Corps
09./03. [PSV] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy’s End
10./05. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot
11./07. [PS4] Overwatch
12./09. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition
13./06. [PS4] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy’s End
14./10. [WIU] Splatoon #
15./13. [WIU] Super Mario Maker #
16./08. [PS3] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy’s End
17./15. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
18./00. [PSV] Chou Ezaru wa Akai Hana: Koi wa Tsuki ni Shirube Kareru
19./12. [3DS] Yo-Kai Sangokushi
20./00. [PS4] The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series
The Squid Sisters, Callie and Marie, will be getting costumes in Super Mario Maker next week, on July 8th. A special event course will be available, and players will have to beat it twice to get each costume. With the Sisters’ amiibo releasing, it is possible that scanning them will unlock the costumes as well, although this has not been confirmed. You can watch a video of the course and the costumes below:
With the 76th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders occurring earlier this week, Nintendo has released the approval rating of the board of directors. For the most part, those who were on the board last year had a small increase in approval rating, although Tatsumi Kimishima saw a slight decline. This is most likely due to his change in role to President, however. Compared to Satoru Iwata’s approval rating from last year, there was an increase in percentage (from 83.45% to 87.14%). You can see the approval ratings below (numbers in parentheses represent those from 2015, for those who had been on the board)
– Tatsumi Kimishima: 87.14% (92.60%)
– Genyo Takeda: 95.26% (92.07% )
– Shigeru Miyamoto: 95.26% (92.08%)
– Shigeyuki Takahashi: 95.87% (94.46%)
– Shuntaro Furukawa: 96.38%
– Naoki Noguchi: 94.78%
– Yoshimi Mitamura: 96.81%
– Katsuhiro Umeyama: 97.49%
– Naoki Mizutani: 95.15% (94.52%)
Earlier this week, Media Create data revealed that Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns sold 100,000 copies in its first week in Japan. Per usual, the sales tracker has now followed up with a report that offers more insight into the title’s debut.
Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns sold through 61.29 percent of its initial shipment. It didn’t live up to the original game in both first week sales (131,000 units) and sell-through rate (73.07 percent). On the other hand, retailers have noticed that fans who’ve picked up the game are noticeably in their 30s, so it is suggested that there is a strong core fan base that has loyally followed the series through its 20 years.
Looking at the past 3DS releases of Story of Seasons (total sales 286,000 copies) and Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning (287,000 copies), both had managed a stable sales volume. Media Create is therefore observing whether Trio of Towns will be able to keep the same sales volume in the future.
