The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
New 3DS LL – 21,069
PS4 – 15,779
Vita – 13,632
Wii U – 10,780
New 3DS – 5,551
PS3 – 2,979
3DS – 1,184
3DS LL – 899
Vita TV – 613
Xbox One – 149
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
New 3DS LL – 19,475
PS4 – 18,171
Vita – 14,067
Wii U – 12,781
New 3DS – 5,506
PS3 – 3,102
3DS – 1,394
3DS LL – 861
Vita TV – 741
Xbox One – 235
And here are the software charts:
1. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters – 693,538 / NEW
2. [3DS] The Great Ace Attorney – 135,690 / NEW
3. [PSV] Taiko No Tatsujin V Version – 46,101 / NEW
4. [3DS] Fire Emblem Fates – 29,682 / 345,253
5. [WIU] Splatoon – 26,136 / 408,312
6. [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best Plus – 24,650 / 325,844
7. [3DS] Cho Tousouchuu Atsumare Saikyou no Tousousya Tachi – 13,571 / NEW
8. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 10,898 / 243,428
9. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 6,708 / 1,060,442
10. [3DS] Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden – 4,642 / 110,087
11. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 4,608 / 2,657,661
12. [PSV] Persona 4: Dancing All Night – 4,449 / 111,513
13. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 4,232 / 3,996,960
14. [3DS] Girls Mode 3 – 2,891 / 164,436
15. [PS4] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – 2,847 / 128,414
16. [PS4] Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition – 2,772 / 50,017
17. [3DS] Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale – 2,757 / 63,524
18. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 2,746 / 2,256,326
19. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 2,218 / 653,783
20. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition – 1,901 / 274,678
A broadcast for the 3DS game Corpse Party: Blood Covered …Repeated Fear was recently held. You can find the recording in full below.
Renegade Kid has confirmed release months for two of its upcoming games. Mutant Mudds Super Challenge is slated for early September, and Dementium: The Ward and Dementium 2 for 3DS are targeted for October.
Rengade Kid also recently announced that Xeodrifter for Wii U is coming to the eShop on July 30.
New footage of Devil’s Third has come online today. Check out a bunch of videos from the game below.
The latest entry in the Dragon Quest Monsters series, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 is 3DS-bound according to a recent Shounen Jump leak. Details are scarce at the moment but we know that Akira Toriyama will be responsible for the new title logo and Nochora will be the center.
The official Japanese Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon website was updated with a bunch of new screenshots and more details about the game. All of the new content has been rounded up below.
– Connection Orbs have replaced the previous Discussion Board
– As you make friends, you can do requests
– This is seen with the web of Pokémon seen during previous trailers
– You can even find Legendary Pokémon through this
– When you have completed a task for a Pokémon, it opens up paths for more tasks, and more and more and so forth
– You can use the Magic Lamp item to summon Hoopa into a dungeon
– It can be either form and can call in various Legendary Pokémon as assistants
– Pancham and Shelmet are bullies at a local Pokémon school, often picking on Goomy
– Deerling is popular among the class, but is very blunt
– Espurr is an intelligent student at the school
– Simipour is the principal of the school in the town and seems to understand the children
– Watchog is the vice principal
– Audino is the doctor who heals you, is often serious but ends things in a joke and Farfetch’d is a serious teacher
Shin Kibayayashi is known for having provided the story concept for Fire Emblem Fates. But you may be interested to hear that Yukinori Kitajima wrote the third story path titled Invisible Kingdom.
Kitajima’s script-writing company previously worked on Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, Time Travelers, Okamiden, Chaos Rings, 428: In the Blocked City, Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, and more. Additionally, Kitajima along with his Synthese staff are the main scenario writers for the Senran Kagura series. It’s also been revealed through his Twitter account that he and and other Synthese staff wrote the support conversations for the Birthright and Conquest story paths.
A bunch of new 3DS themes are out now in Japan. These include ones based on Cooking Mama/Gardening Mama and more.
Here’s the full list:
NHK Puppet Show (Sherlock Holmes) – 200 yen
M.S.S Project – 200 yen
Gardening Mama – 100 yen
Cooking Mama (x2) – 100 yen each
Kururin Sushi – 100 yen
GReeeeN – 200 yen
96neko feat. HISASHI – 200 yen
Jewel Pet – Magical Change – 200 yen
Namarikirin – 200 yen
Pichon Kun and Oyupichon-kun – 100 yen
Niconico Television-chan – 100 yen
Hachi feat.GUMI – Panda Hero – 200 yen
Bakumatsu – 200 yen
Wan Nyan Animal Hospital – 100 yen
Mafumafu – 200 yen
Hippariinya – 100 yen
vip manager – 200 yen
Hyakari Special Voice
PriPara – SoLaMi SMILE – 200 yen
Unison Square Garden – 200 yen
40mP ft. Hatsune Miku – Getting Faster and Faster – 200 yen
Rerulili feat. Hatsune Miku & Gumi – Brain Fluid Explosion girl – 200 yen
Below are a few videos of the different themes:
In honor of Satoru Iwata’s legacy, Game Developers Conference has posted Iwata-san’s entire keynote from his 2005 appearance, entitled “Heart of a Gamer”. There are a lot of interesting tidbits about his upbringing into video games and his rise to president of Nintendo.
Iwata’s charm exudes throughout the video, and you’ll notice that even throughout this informative and inspiring keynote, he can’t help but be full of humor and jovial as well.
Rest in peace, Iwata-san. We miss you.
Famitsu provides an update on Devil’s Third this week. Along with the magazine’s report, there’s also an interview with creator Tomonobu Itagaki.
First, here’s what Itagaki had to say about multiplayer:
“There are things like diplomacy chat that only clan leaders can use, so you can have conferences with other clans. I’m a military enthusiast so there are also many political elements in the game.”
Famitsu then asks about being able to enjoy just the multiplayer:
“Of course. You can [enjoy the multiplayer] even without playing the single-player game. Even so, the single-player is packed with Itagaki-like things, so I’d like you to try it. In order to make both the multiplayer side of the game and the single player side of the game enjoyable, each of them required an amount of quantity, quality and scope. There are these two parts of Devil’s Third. That’s why it took time [to make the game].”
