Recently, the digital version of AKB1/149 Renai Sosenkyo for PlayStation 3 was released in Japan. The game costs 4980 Yen (with tax) and if you buy it now you will get a special custom theme.
The Limited Edition of AKB1/149 Love Election comes with a DL code for super rare cards featuring the AKB48 idol girls!
Vgchartz: Overall hardware sales increased by 38 percent week-on-week, due to the release of Monster Hunter 4 (3DS). Week-on-week sales is up for the 3DS, and down for everything else. Overall year-on-year sales are up 13 percent. The 3DS is the only platform to be up year-over-year. The DS has the biggest drop year-on-year by percent, at 78 percent.
Nice, hoping for a release outside of Japan and maybe even a port to the Wii U or something.
@Zichu
Or a console exclusive for wii u. Look at the 360 game, frontier. Even that game sold modest. It really speaks volumes about japan's monster hunter obsession when they'll flock to the 360 to play it...
If Nintendo wants to move units, especially in Japan, they need to partner and make a Wii U exclusive Monster Hunter. This time make it ground up for the Wii U.
MH3U is exclusive to Nintendo (Wii U and 3DS), and MH4 is the same i believe.
No more Monster Hunter on Sony platforms, except for the port that even the Japanese were laughing at, which is coming to PS3 and Vita... so i won't be getting that if even the Japanese don't want it lol
oh I know that MH and Nintendo share a great exclusivity at the moment. I just meant if Nintendo wants to move some Wii U units, then make a new MH game for the Wii U. Don't take an existing 3DS game and then port it over.
The major Japanese retailer Tsutaya released its sales charts, that are normally considered a good glimpse on the previous week's market situation in the archipelago of the rising sun due to the fact that the retailer chain has a large number of stores spread in the whole country.
Japanese games charts is always an exciting thing to analyze. Really, one week you're at the top soon you're below, except of course, games like MH, Mario Kart, etc.
Yeah, most Japanese gamers are very big on day one purchases, so most games go down very fast. Normally the ones that have a bigger staying power are those aimed more towards casual gamers and younger audiences.
I wonder how much Nintendo paid Capcom to get MH4 exclusivity like they did with RE4 during the Gamecube days?
Oh well knowing Capcom its predictable how these kind of 'exclusive' stuff will eventually go back to PlayStation.
Capcom makes mega hit franchises on PlayStation, the competition swipes it, and greedy Capcom brings em back.
I believe that Monster Hunter will stay at the top for about a month before Pokemon knocks it to second place
That's VERY unlikely. A large percentage of the gamers that want Monster Hunter were neatly lined up to get it on saturday morning at 4 AM lol.
Monster Hunter games definitely fit the bill for those games that get enormous numbers on they one and then slide down.
Did the PSP games follow that template? I just believe that it will stay at the top for a few weeks, because recently big games, such as Animal Crossing have done so.
Pretty much. It may stay on top a couple weeks, but I doubt more than that.
Animal crossing is a much more casual-friendly game, so it caters a lot to people that don't care aout "DAY ONE!!!"
Monster hunter on the other hand is strongly focused on the hardcore audience, and most of them had the game in their hands by the end of the weekend.
As much as many would like to believe that Monster Hunter is probably as big(possibly(Unlikely) bigger) a household name as Pokemon in Japan. Except it's aimed at teenagers and above so it's got a larger target audience. Trust me I've been to Japan and I've seen what appeared to be a high-up businessman playing Portable 3rd until his client showed up. Monster Hunter was everywhere. You could not escape it. I even had a complete stranger ask me if I could play it with him and his friends since they were one guy short. I did not have that problem with Pokemon.
Only because the fans buy like 100s of the same CD to vote for their favorite.
Monkey see, monkey do!
I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...
I'm so sick of these quasi-loli groups trying to ride on the heels of the failed and thankfully gone, Morning Musume.