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Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional recently made its way to Japan. A lengthy look at the game is in the video below.

In its first week, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional sold around 125,000 copies in Japan. Dengeki now provides us with additional details about the game’s performance.

Joker 3 Professional sold less than DS’ Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional, which achieved first week sales of 164,000 copies and 638,000 units lifetime. However, it did manage to sell through 90 percent of its initial shipment.

The sales ratio between Joker 2 Professional and original Joker 2 (lifetime sales of 1.32 million) was 48.3 percent. Considering how the original Joker 3’s lifetime sales were 660,000, total sales for the new Professional version would be expected at 318,000 copies. The important point will be whether Square Enix can attract new users in addition to the existing players.

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Capcom has come out with a trailer for the Monster Hunter XX demo, released earlier this week in Japan. Watch it below.

This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

01./00. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 – Professional (Square Enix) {2017.02.09} (¥5.250) – 122.051 / NEW
02./00. [PS4] Nioh (Koei Tecmo) {2017.02.09} (¥7.800) – 75.477 / NEW
03./00. [PS4] Yonmegami Online: Cyber Dimension Neptune # (Compile Heart) {2017.02.09} (¥7.200) – 42.508 / NEW
04./01. [PS4] Resident Evil 7: biohazard # (Capcom) {2017.01.26} (¥7.990) – 22.338 / 262.309 (-58%)
05./02. [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} (¥4.980) – 16.477 / 3.148.928 (-17%)
06./03. [3DS] Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World # (Nintendo) {2017.01.19} (¥4.700) – 9.495 / 79.976 (-27%)
07./04. [3DS] Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS
(Nintendo) {2016.12.01} (¥4.700) – 9.367 / 962.071 (-19%)
08./05. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 3: Sukiyaki (Level 5) {2016.12.15} (¥4.800) – 8.583 / 662.339 (-25%)
09./10. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V [New Price Edition] (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} (¥4.990) – 5.686 / 271.628 (-14%)
10./12. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition # (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.400) – 4.578 / 1.106.077 (-17%)
11./13. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} (¥2.700) – 4.362 / 126.559 (-9%)
12./09. [PSV] Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony # (Spike Chunsoft) {2017.01.12} (¥6.400) – 4.178 / 112.653 (-37%)
13./07. [PS4] Gravity Rush 2
(Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2017.01.19} (¥6.900) – 3.953 / 102.630 (-54%)
14./15. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV # (Square Enix) {2016.11.29} (¥8.800) – 3.755 / 936.304 (-13%)
15./14. [3DS] Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon!! (Nintendo) {2016.12.22} (¥4.980) – 3.732 / 283.832 (-21%)
16./11. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue (Square Enix) {2017.01.12} (¥6.800) – 3.166 / 181.216 (-49%)
17./17. [3DS] Miitopia (Nintendo) {2016.12.08} (¥4.700) – 3.087 / 168.166 (-21%)
18./06. [PS4] Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 – Road to Boruto (Bandai Namco Games) {2017.02.02} (¥6.800) – 2.841 / 12.045 (-69%)
19./20. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Microsoft Game Studios) {2016.06.23} (¥3.600) – 2.796 / 288.878 (-11%)
20./21. [PS4] Battlefield 1 (Electronic Arts) {2016.10.21} (¥7.800) – 2.527 / 261.179

Bandai Namco has an update on Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X, its new Japanese game for 3DS.

First, Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X will have Arcade Mode which is ported from the original Dragon Ball Heroes along with a game-original Ultimate Heroes Mode.

Arcade Mode has 36 missions, covering eight from Dragon Ball Heroes, ten character missions, eight Evil Dragon Missions, and ten God Missions.

Ultimate Heroes Mode takes place between the real world and Dragon Ball Heroes world. In the latter world, there’s an incident where past fighters are losing their sanity, and it’s even affecting the real world too. Players need to fight Dragon Ball characters, restore their sanity, and become partners. You’ll be tasked with creating the strongest party by strengthening partners to save both worlds.

Also included in the game are power-up accessories obtained from battles that can be equipped. There will be more than 240 unique characters and over 3,300 cards, the most in the series. Bandai Namco does note that there will be some differences in game contents compared to the arcade game Super Dragon Ball Heroes.

Screenshots covering today’s information are attached below.

In February of last year, CoroCoro published a special Splatoon manga chapter for free online to celebrate the release of the regular Splatoon manga that started running in Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic around that time. Now, a year later, a second chapter of the manga is available for free online. You can read it here – in Japanese, naturally.

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Ahead of its Japanese launch next month, we now have the opening movie for Monster Hunter XX. Give it a look below.

Shocking almost no one, yet another collaboration has been announced for Monster Hunter XX. Capcom is partnering with the CoroCoro manga Grandpa Danger. Felyne armor called Kikonashi D-ryman will be added as DLC.

In other news, the file size for Monster Hunter XX is in. It’ll take up 17,784 blocks, or 2,223 MB of space.

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Way back in the day, Jaleco created the puzzle game “Soldam” for arcades and the Game Boy. Now on Switch, it seems that it’s being revitalized.

This week’s issue of Famitsu shares first details about Soldam: Declaration of Blooming. It’s coming from nCity Connection.

Soldam: Declaration of Blooming features a new visual design, sounds, and game modes. The core gameplay is the same though, which has players lining up blocks called soldams to remove them. It’s similar to Tetris in some ways.

Three modes will be available:

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

PS4 – 22,282
New 3DS LL – 19,126
Vita – 8,479
PS4 Pro – 6,693
2DS – 5,226
New 3DS – 1,435
Wii U – 543
PS3 – 473
Xbox One – 112

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

PS4 – 26,870
New 3DS LL – 18,891
Vita – 9,626
PS4 Pro – 9,508
2DS – 5,593
New 3DS – 1,617
Wii U – 778
PS3 – 548
Xbox One – 111

And here are the software charts:


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