Can we have a comparaison between Tales of Innocence R and Tales of Hearts R?

Poor Layton....

Hey now! don't be to hasty!

Good, just one more : Soul Sacrifice at least in top 10

And it's perfect !

Professor Layton and the Azrar Legacies is pretty fucked up. It doesn't seem wise to release it shortly after Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney which didn't set the charts on fire at all. It will probably have a similar debut but without holiday bump it will struggle even harder to reach 300,000 units. That figure is its ceiling.

How does Tales of Hearts R compare to Soul Sacrifice on amazon japan?

Layton :(. Why the hell did they decide to release it less than six months from PWvsPL?

Tales of Hearts has been charting above Soul Sacrifce on amazon.jp pretty much for the last month or so, whenever I've been checking it.

Oddly, the second highest Vita game on amazon is PhotoKano Kiss, which has been doing surprisingly well for a few days now =/

I wouldn't surprise if that title charted some time before its release.. But I really hope Soul Sacrifice Chart! What's happening in Japan?

I'm wondering at the moment when will any Japanese company out of the big ones (SE, Capcom, Konami, Namco Bandai, Tecmo Koei, Sega, Level 5) announce anything for the Wii U. I mean, it's already past its launch and none seems to seriously being supporting the console at all.

Other than 2 ports from Capcom (MH3U and Re: Revelations), the single port from SE (DQX), the 2 ports from Namco Bandai (Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tank Tank Tank!), 3 ports from Tecmo Koei (Ninja Gaiden 3, Fist of the North Warrior 3, Warriors Orochi 3) plus one multiplat (Romance of the 3 Kingdoms XII) and 2 West-only games from Sega (Sonic Racing and Aliens) there is nothing of significance announced for the console.

Out of all the games named there, only 1 isn't a late port (ROT3KXII) and it bombed, the rest are all ports and only 2 of them are still unreleased (RE:Revelations and DQX) which is terrible.

It's indeed strange and worrisome that not even Japanese companies are willing to support the Wii U early in its life. It's been all ports and nothing else. Japanese consumers rarely fall for ports, their money is on new IP's or sequels to big franchises. Japanese 3rd parties are not committed nor enthusiastic towards the Wii U, there are no ambitious or exclusive projects for the platform at the moment and there will not be for a long time, since it takes years to produce a big budget game for a new platform. I don't think they are being hidden on purpose either, that wouldn't make sense. Nintendo is desperate to find some appeal for its console and would be asking devs to announce a big project.

3DS had all Japanese publishers on board prior to the console's launch.
Level 5, Konami, Square Enix, Atlus, Capcom, Marvelous, Namco Bandai, Sega, Tecmo Koei.
All of them with exclusive new content announced for the platform, many big titles along popular franchises among them. Meanwhile Wii U's launch and pre launch situation is nothing alike, publishers do not care about it, even PSV had more support planned prior to launch.