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The arrival of Golden Week usually signifies an uptick in Japanese game sales. Unsurprisingly, that was no different this year. For the week of April 28th, hardware sales rose by 112.29 percent over the week prior, in part thanks to the performance of the 3DS. However, sales were down overall year-over-year.

Media Create data reveals that software sales dipped by 68.57 percent. One could say that the lack of a major new title partially resulted in the downturn. In 2013, Nintendo released Tomodachi Life – a big seller having moved almost 210,000 copies during Golden Week.

Hardware sales also decreased by 68.21 percent compared to last week’s Golden Week period. Even though the 3DS sold well on the whole, it only managed to move 51.82 percent of last year’s total.

What does this all ultimately amount to? A 30 percent drop in overall sales.

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SoniPro has received a new, final Japanese release date. Today, Imageepoch confirmed that its 3DS game will launch on July 31.

Those who pre-order SoniPro will be provided with a special CD.

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

01./03. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch (Level 5) {2013.07.11} (¥4.800) – 62.777 / 860.824 (+46%)
02./00. [3DS] Mario Golf: World Tour (Nintendo) {2014.05.01} (¥4.937) – 49.889 / NEW
03./01. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment # (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.24} (¥6.664) – 32.512 / 177.541 (-78%)
04./02. [3DS] Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call # (Square Enix) {2014.04.24} (¥6.264) – 24.908 / 105.431 (-69%)
05./04. [3DS] Mario Party: Island Tour (Nintendo) {2014.03.20} (¥4.800) – 22.581 / 343.071 (+44%)
06./11. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe (Nintendo) {2014.01.11} (¥4.800) – 10.046 / 569.949 (+59%)
07./12. [3DS] Pokemon X / Y # (Pokemon Co.) {2013.10.12} (¥4.800) – 8.512 / 4.049.142 (+42%)
08./06. [WIU] Famicom Remix 1+2 (Nintendo) {2014.04.24} (¥3.086) – 8.216 / 19.295 (-26%)
09./00. [3DS] Touch Detective: Ozawa Rina Rising 3 – Nameko wa Banana no Yume o Miru ka? (Success) {2014.05.01} (¥5.184) – 8.190 / NEW
10./00. [PS4] Child of Light (Ubisoft) {2014.05.01} (¥2.138) – 7.807 / NEW
11./13. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters – Tokimeki Up! (Nintendo) {2014.04.17} (¥4.936) – 7.708 / 25.949 (+30%)
12./05. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.10} (¥8.715) – 7.000 / 193.396 (-43%)
13./10. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (Konami) {2014.03.20} (¥2.980) – 6.964 / 211.462 (+8%)
14./08. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Jigoku-Hen (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.04.10} (¥7.689) – 6.173 / 160.842 (-29%)
15./27. [3DS] Fossil Fighters: Infinite Gear (Nintendo) {2014.02.27} (¥4.800) – 5.905 / 149.703 (+63%)
16./20. [WIU] Just Dance Wii U (Nintendo) {2014.04.03} (¥6.156) – 5.246 / 39.180 (+31%)
17./14. [PS3] Samurai Warriors 4 #
(Koei Tecmo) {2014.03.20} (¥7.560) – 4.963 / 222.974 (-8%)
18./23. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 4.925 / 3.726.695
19./40. [WIU] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) {2013.11.21} (¥5.985) – 4.851 / 537.274
20./22. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 #
(Capcom) {2013.09.14} (¥5.990) – 4.596 / 3.268.963 (+16%)

Siliconera has translated several details about Arc Style: Soccer!! 2014, Arc System Works’ latest 3DS eShop title coming to Japan next week. You can find the information rounded up below.

– Newer version of Arc Style Soccer 3D
– 32 different countries
– Need to make it on top of the world
– Fouls and offside rules aren’t in the game
– 3 modes
– First mode: World Tournament
– World Tournament is like the World Cup format
– Players pick a team, quality through a group stage and win your way up the knockout stage
– Exhibition: compete against friends or CPU for free match-ups
– The CPU has easy, normal, and hard difficulties
– Can play locally against friends, even through Download Play
– Customization included
– Change stuff like their names, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, body type, hairstyle, and nose

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Capcom issued a sales forecast for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate in its latest financial report. By March 31st of next year, the company is looking to ship 3.9 million copies of the game in Japan (and other Asian countries), North America and Europe. Keep in mind this figure includes download sales as well.

As for the original version of Monster Hunter 4, Capcom shipped 4.1 million copies in Japan. The title has seen a high number of downloads, the publisher says.

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Several new details are in for Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson. You can find them rounded up below.

– Pair Battle: put together a tag-team to fight enemies
– Partner character fights on her own
– Can give the partner character orders
– It’s possible to put together tag teams with rivals
– When switching places with the partners, you’ll be able to do actions such as combos and counters
– Tag-team move can be done between two characters
– The better the pair fights together, the higher damage output the attack will have
– Depending on the duo you create, there will be different attack scenes
– Switch weapons just for looks
– Can attach special gems to a weapon to give it powers and elemental attributes
– These include “attack up,” “auto-health recovery,” and “fire invulnerability”
– Special intros for certain character match-ups
– Can destroy the clothing of small-fry enemies
– Once you defeat an enemy, you’ll be able to “examine” them in the reference library
– Clothing will also be destroyed in seamless fashion

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