This week’s Japanese eShop update is as follows:

3DS

Downloadable Titles
Conbini Dream – 800 yen
Treasure Raider – Pyramid kara Dasshutsu – 400 yen
Dokopon Choice – Super Mario-kun Vol. 2 11 – 20-kan Pack – 4,400 yen
Pinch 50 Renpatsu!! – 500 yen
Puchi Novel Shiky? no Ku-gatsu – 200 yen
World Parking Pro – 300 yen
K?eki Zaidanhonjin Nihon Kanji N?ryoku Kentei Y?kai Kanken Training (retail title) – 4,104 yen (from 9/25)
Tenkai Knight – Brave Battle (retail title) – 5,119 yen (from 9/25)
Haiky?! Tsunage! Itadaki no Keshiki! (retail title) – 6,145 yen (from 9/25)
Fushigi no Kuni no B?ken Sakaba Demo – FREE

Virtual Console
NA (no titles since 5/7)

Wii U

Downloadable Titles
Zero – Nuregarasu no Miko (Fatal Frame V: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden, retail title) – 6,600 yen (from 9/27)
Toki Tori 2 Demo – FREE

Virtual Console
Takahashi Meijin no B?kenjima (Adventure Island, Famicom) – 514 yen
Heisei Shin Onigashima K?hen (Super Famicom) – 823 yen
Heisei Shin Onigashima Zenpen (Super Famicom) – 823 yen
Soldier Blade (PC Engine) – 617 yen

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Eurogamer has published a new interview with Hyrule Warriors producer Hisashi Koinuma, Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi, and Koei Tecmo exec and Omega Force leader Akihiro Suzuki. The discussion naturally included more talk of the Wii U game, as well as topics like working with Nintendo again (plus Mario interest?!), and even Star Wars.

You’ll find a few excerpts from Eurogamer’s interview below. Head on over here for the full thing.

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Nintendo will be removing The Band of Thieves & 1000 Pokemon from the Japanese 3DS eShop next Tuesday, it has been announced. The game was released in June and was created in conjunction with Pokemon XY The Movie – The Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie. The film’s run ends in most theaters on September 30.

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This week’s GameStop ad has gone live. You can find it in full below:

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With FAST Racing Neo, developer Shin’en will be looking to make a few improvements to the game’s predecessor.

First, phase switching has been “streamlined” and it’s now “more fun to use.” Shin’en also adjusted the AI so that it’s more human-like.

Shin’en Manfred Linzner told Nintendon:

First of all we analyzed what people liked and disliked in the original Wii game. For instance, most people enjoyed the unique phase switching gameplay, because it’s something you have in no other racing game.

So we build on that but tried to make it more streamlined and more fun to use. Something most people disliked was the brutal difficulty in higher leagues, because the Ai was simply too perfect. We made sure that the Ai behaves more ‘human’ this time.

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Update: Bumped to the top! Shin’en has shared a third screenshot:

Shin’en has shared a second screenshot from FAST Racing Neo. Check it out above.

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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 321,363 / 1,266,008
2. [3DS] Youkai Watch 2 – 56,380 / 2,525,591
3. [WIU] Bayonetta 2 – 38,828 / NEW
4. [PS3] Destiny – 18,393 / 67,896
5. [3DS] Dragon Quest X – 13,948 / 89,299
6. [PS4] Destiny – 13,014 / 104,291
7. [PS3] Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution – 9,389 / 49,569
8. [PSV] Toukiden Extreme – 7,936 / 129,356
9. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 6,396 / 672,313
10. [3DS] Youkai Watch – 4,554 / 1,274,296
11. [3DS] Yoshi’s New Island – 4,334 / 184,048
12. [PS3] GTA V New Price Version – 3,087 / 63,395
13. [3DS] Pokemon X/Y – 2,944 / 4,144,405
14. [PS4] Sengoku Musou 4 – 2,840 / 19,131
15. [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 – 2,792 / 139,935
16. [3DS] Medabots 8 – 2,763 / 48,069
17. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Don to Katsu no Jikuu Daibouken – 2,719 / 163,540
18. [PS3] Diablo III – 2,611 / 32,151
19. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 2,554 / 3,788,095
20. [WIU] Hyrule Warriors – 2,443 / 102,620

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

3DS LL – 35,622
Vita – 11,148
PS4 – 8,939
Wii U – 8,396
3DS – 7,970
PS3 – 6,078
Xbox One – 1,314
Vita TV – 709
Xbox 360 – 103
PSP – 99

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

3DS LL – 31,602
PS4 – 23,623
Vita – 12,331
3DS – 7,967
Wii U – 7,062
PS3 – 6,083
Xbox One – 3,015
Vita TV – 817
PSP – 101
Xbox 360 – 96

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This month’s EDGE review scores are as follows:

Bayonetta 2 [10]
The Sims 4 [7]
Hyrule Warriors [6]
The Walking Dead: Season Two [7]
InFamous: First Light [7]
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call [6]
CounterSpy [6]

Thanks to Kev for the tip.

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