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Square Enix released Final Fantasy 1 alongside Final Fantasy Explorers as a first-print bonus, complete with 3D support. Now the game is being released on the Japanese 3DS eShop next week.

Final Fantasy 1 is due out on January 21 for 1,080 yen. View some screenshots above.

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Three new games will be available on the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console next week. They are as follows:

Break In (PC Engine, 617 yen)
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance (GBA, 702 yen)
Dragon Buster (Famicom, 514 yen)

The games above are hitting the Japanese eShop on January 21.

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During Christmas week, 1,517,000 games were sold in Japan. Media Create says that number is 79.45 percent compared to sales during Christmas week in 2013. Sales are also down compared to 2012 (1,701,000 units) and 2011 (1,621,000 units).

Gaming sales during the year-end season weren’t entirely underwhelming. All three versions of Youkai Watch 2 were top performers having sold a combined total of 5.079 million units. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate has sold 2.34 million copies and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS has sold 2 million.

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Funabashi, Chiba mascot character Funassyi the pear is getting two 3DS games this year, according to this week’s issue of Famitsu.

Funassyi will be appearing in Nashi-jiru Busha! Fannassyi vs. Dragons, which is a Puzzle and Dragons type RPG where Funassyi must battle to save the fruit population from extinction. The game is being developed by Rocket Company and will release on March 26

The second game Nashi-jiru Action! Funnassyi no Yukai-na Ohanassyi is a side-scrolling action game set in a familiar fairy-tale style world. The game is being developed by Success and will release on April 30.

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Most games these days tend to offer some form of downloadable content. But in the case of The Legend of Legacy, there are no such plans.

Director Masataka Matsuura told Inside Games (as translated by Siliconera):

“There won’t be a single piece of DLC. That’s pretty rare nowadays. I didn’t want to allocate any of our development budget to that. We’re going with the philosophy of simply focusing on the game as a whole.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Inside Games asked if The Legend of Legacy will have something like a New Game+ mode, where enemies get tougher after beating the game. Matsuura said in response:

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

01./01. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 2: Shin Uchi (Level 5) {2014.12.13} (¥4.968) – 262.310 / 2.039.205 (-51%)
02./02. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon Co.) {2014.11.21} (¥4.937) – 165.329 / 2.283.344 (-1%)
03./05. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) {2014.09.13} (¥5.616) – 91.857 / 2.001.935 (+24%)
04./04. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U # (Nintendo) {2014.12.06} (¥7.776) – 85.776 / 471.236 (+9%)
05./09. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate # (Capcom) {2014.10.11} (¥6.264) – 51.306 / 2.345.260 (+33%)
06./03. [3DS] Final Fantasy Explorers (Square Enix) {2014.12.18} (¥6.264) – 49.671 / 210.869 (-69%)
07./08. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level 5) {2014.07.10} (¥4.937) – 42.765 / 3.040.100 (+9%)
08./10. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 # (Nintendo) {2014.05.29} (¥6.156) – 38.637 / 851.776 (+13%)
09./07. [PSV] Gundam Breaker 2 (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.12.18} (¥7.171) – 26.477 / 83.665 (-54%)
10./06. [PS3] Gundam Breaker 2 (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.12.18} (¥8.208) – 22.414 / 88.946 (-66%)
11./00. [PSV] Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei: Out of Order # (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.12.25} (¥6.664) – 21.978 / NEW
12./18. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 20.882 / 3.868.448 (+21%)
13./13. [WIU] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2014.11.13} (¥3.996) – 19.074 / 119.961 (-6%)
14./15. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Koko ga Ochitsukundesu (Nippon Columbia) {2014.11.20} (¥5.184) – 18.741 / 74.642 (-6%)
15./17. [3DS] Aikatsu! 365-Hi no Idol Days (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.12.04} (¥5.627) – 17.301 / 85.538 (-9%)
16./14. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V # (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2014.12.11} (¥7.992) – 16.425 / 118.214 (-18%)
17./20. [3DS] Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind – Chain (Spike Chunsoft) {2014.12.04} (¥5.378) – 14.866 / 58.966 (+20%)
18./22. [3DS] Gotouchi Tetsudou: Gotouchi Chara to Nihon Zenkoku no Tabi (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.11.27} (¥5.626) – 14.549 / 47.130
19./00. [PS4] Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2014.12.25} (¥8.208) – 14.113 / NEW
20./21. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) – 13.629 / 2.437.387

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