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Nintendo Platforms Lead Japanese Sales

Nintendo Platforms Lead Japanese Sales
Nintendo platforms dominated hardware sales in Japan during the week ended June 11. Despite a weekly sales decline DSi LL remained the clear frontrunner, while Wii jumped ahead of PSP, no doubt aided by Wii Party 's chart topping opening week performance . Full story
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No More Heroes 2 finally coming to Japan with deluxe edition

No More Heroes 2 finally coming to Japan with deluxe edition
Marvelous has finally gotten around to announcing a Japanese release date for No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle . Full story
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67% Of Japanese Consumers Don’t Plan To Buy 3D TVs

67% Of Japanese Consumers Don’t Plan To Buy 3D TVs
Over two thirds of Japanese consumers say they aren’t planning to buy a 3D TV for their home, according to a recent survey of 8,957 punters. The 67.4 per cent in question said they were turned off by 3D glasses, the high cost of televisions and a lack of content, Kakaku.com found (via Reuters ). Full story
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Xbox 360 Monster Hunter Leads Japanese Chart

Xbox 360 Monster Hunter Leads Japanese Chart
Xbox 360 title Monster Hunter Frontier Online debuted atop the Japanese software chart during the week ended June 27. A port of 2007's PC MMO, the subscription-based game moved 93,000 units in its first week, according to sales data from Media Create (via Andriasang ) Full story
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E32010: 3DS Allows Software Installs – Report

E32010: 3DS Allows Software Installs - Report
The 3DS will allow users to copy multiple games to its internal memory, according to Japanese financial paper Nikkei. Full story
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CESA: 5.2 million illegal downloads of Dissidia: Final Fantasy in Japan

CESA: 5.2 million illegal downloads of Dissidia: Final Fantasy in Japan
Siliconera has some more insight on those Consumer Entertainment Software Association piracy figures , and while the "money lost" totals are still a little inflated (it's very hard to agree with the sentiment that all pirated software would otherwise have been purchased legitimately at full price if not for piracy), the actual downloads are pretty surprising. Dissidia: Final Fantasy is the big winner (loser?), ... Full story
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News: Handheld piracy cost industry $29m over five years

Piracy on the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP formats costs the industry an estimated £28.9 million ($41.6m / ¥3.816tn) over five years, according to research by Japan's Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association. The group, which organises the Tokyo Game Show, conducted the research between June 2004 to 2009, in cooperation with Tokyo University's Baba Lab. Full story
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News: Super Mario Galaxy 2 shines in Japanese chart

Super Mario Galaxy 2 has entered the Japanese sales chart at number one, outpacing the debut of its immediate predecessor by 90,000 units. With 339,901 units sold in its first week Super Mario Galaxy 2 has become the fastest-selling 3D Super Mario game on any format. However, the game still trails significantly behind the 2D iterations in the series, with New Super Mario Bros Full story
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Ex-Hudson President Forms MonkeyPaw Games

Ex-Hudson President Forms MonkeyPaw Games
Former Hudson Entertainment president John Greiner has established MonkeyPaw Games, a new publisher focused on bringing "real Japanese games" to western markets. Greiner is a 20 year industry veteran who previously oversaw the US launch of the TurboGrafx-16 platform, in the process bringing over Japanese titles like Adventure Island , Military Madness and Bomberman . read more Full story
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Harmonix polls fan site about Japanese rock in Rock Band

Harmonix polls fan site about Japanese rock in Rock Band
There's been no sign of Q Entertainment's localized Japanese version of Rock Band since its announcement in 2008. In fact, the title is unlikely to happen at all, according to Harmonix's John Drake, who told RockBandAide that fans shouldn't expect a standalone Japanese edition of the game. Instead, Harmonix partnered with JRockRevolution to poll that site's users about the Japanese rock bands they'd most ... Full story
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