The Taiko audience are in the arcades

Famitsu includes download cards. Also expains their MH4, Wii Party U and NSMBU data.

Media-Create has it higher, by like 30k.

I misunderstood, thought you were talking about the totals. I have no explanation for why MC has it that much higher.

Exstetra is garbage and deserves to burn! Tony Taka's cursed touch never fails to produce a landmine game.


Next week will be fun. God Eater 2 tomorrow!

GTA5 passes 500k, awesome.

I very much doubt that Taiko U will have a big FW but it could provide some help in the long run.

Wii U is actually pretty solid. A drop of 50% or more is to be expected, but it's still dramatically more than it was before the new bundles. People are funny. Most that are saying it was a bad drop this week were only expecting Wii U to hit about 20k last week. The 17k this week are quite good when put in perspective. I would expect another drop this week, followed by a big surge when SM3DW launches.

Gosh. Not a very impressive week for Japan.

Starting with the hardware - it's the healthiest, but that's really not healthy for 3DS. Didn't it have a Monster Hunter LE console bundle this week? I thought it was a lock for 100k+ a week since MonHun and Pokemon came; but it hasn't been. Maybe my expectations were just too high.

Vita is... alright. At least it's found a stable floor by the looks of it, as long as there's a niche release or two a week. Still not healthy, but given how it was doing last year (this was the 4k week last year just before the new colours released) it's... an improvement, I guess.

Wii-U. There was obviously gonna be a drop this week, but I wasn't expecting quite so big. I'd have thought there would still be some pent up demand the following week. Taiko & Mario should boost it back up a bit and I'm expecting them both to have legs.

Software wise... wow. I don't think Akiba's Trip numbers are very good because it's basically showing 0 growth over the PSP version. At least the Vita version did better (+ digital) I suppose. Exstetra has done horribly, by every stretch of the imagination. Those 3DS numbers are abysmal and Vita really isn't any better.

Those baseball games are showing impressive legs though. I guess that's quite good.

battlefield no 1,

next gen all on top now,wonder if vita tv will do anything then