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In its first week on the Japanese market, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds sold roughly 224,000 copies. This resulted in an 83.47 percent sell-through rate for Nintendo.

A Link Between Worlds climbed to a total of 297,215 units by the end of its second week. The game’s shipment sell-through rate also rose to 96.84 percent.

While Zelda: A Link Between Worlds’ performance is down compared to Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks, Nintendo has intelligently handled the game’s shipments. Spirit Tracks saw an initial shipment of 600,000 copies, but only ended up selling through half that amount for its release. Ocarina of Time, like A Link Between Worlds, was handled much better as the first shipment was slightly more than 182,000 copies, which created a 90.02 percent sell-through rate.

A Link Between Worlds will need steady sales in order to catch up to Phantom Hourglass, one of the best-selling portable Zeldas in recent times. Total sales for the DS title hit 900,000 units in less than two years. Ocarina of Time also sold rather well with sales hitting 560,000 copies by the end of 2012.

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New LovePlus+ will launch in Japan on March 27. Pricing is set at 5,700 yen for the retail version and 5,200 yen for the download version.

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Klon has confirmed a May 1 launch for Island Days in Japan. The company also recently released the boxart above. Aside from those two items, information and media for Island Days has been pretty much absent.

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Rainy Frog formed back in September with two primary goals. First, the company will be assisting others in bringing their western eShop titles to Japan. Rainy Frog also intends to release Japanese games overseas.

The publisher is starting its efforts with the Japanese launch of Spin the Bottle: Bumpie’s Party, which will be renamed “Waiwai! Minna De Challenge”. Whereas the Wii U eShop title was primarily aimed at adults in the west, founder Anthony Byus tells Nintendo Life that the Japanese release will be made “more appealing to the family-orientated Japanese Wii U market”.

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Famitsu has got its hands on new details for Dragon Quest Monsters 2’s Magic Keys. You can find the latest batch of information below.

– Unlock Malta castle’s key shop by clearing the game
– You’ll then be able to access a ton of Magical Keys
– Add your own “words” to the keys
– Depending on the material and word combination used to make the keys, the resulting world you’ll get will differ
– Quests they’ll offer differ as well
– This makes it easier to remember what combinations you can use to make the worlds you want
– Make a key and you’ll then be allowed to check out what kind of quests and monsters will appear int he world it can unlock
– Keys you make can be shared with others through StreetPass
– This is the best way to power up your post-game monsters
– There will be a “little more” to it than new grinding areas

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SEGA has shared a couple of more details about the upcoming beta for Initial D Perfect Shift Online, which has been extended to January 14 in Japan.

Players will be able to customize their car with different decal stickers from the series’ various groups. For beta testers, they’ll have access to Akina Speed Stars, Red Suns and Night Kids decals. Those who sign up will also receive the Toyota AE86 as a free car.

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Earlier today, Nico Nico held an announcement broadcast for its annual “Nico Nico Chokaigi” convention. The show was highlighted by an appearance from none other than Shigeru Miyamoto.

Miyamoto announced that Nintendo intends to act as the “Super Special Sponsor” this year. It’s a bit unclear as to what this entails – though perhaps it’s a sign that Nintendo has something special in store for fans.

Nico Nico Chokaigi will take place on April 27 and April 28.

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Next week, “Comic Koubou” will be hitting the 3DS eShop. It’s a manga-creation app packed with plenty of functionality and features.

Here’s what we know about Comic Koubou as of now:

– Free panel division
– Includes basic tools for speech and text bubbles
– Vertical and horizontal text placement
– Pens, brushes, and tones
– Supports layers (up to 5 simultaneously)
– Copy/paste functions
– Redo function
– Save creations in JPEG format to the 3DS SD memory card
– Doesn’t support 3D
– Pages have a maximum size setting of 896 x 896 pixel
– Out on January 15
– 800 yen

Screenshots from Comic Koubou can be found above.

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