Japanese company Tsutaya has compiled a list of the 19 games that sold the most copies in Japan during 2012, and unsurprisingly, Nintendo and Capcom dominate the chart thanks to strong sales of the latest Pokemon, Resident Evil, and Monster Hunter games.
Despite being the prime source of “WTF?” in pop culture, Japan has some pretty strict laws on censorship, ranging from the reasonable to the inane.
The Vita hasn’t had the greatest start, much like the 3DS it faltered in sales shortly after launch and has been beaten out by the latter pretty consistently. Even the Vita’s older brother, the PSP has sold more weekly than itself. Because of this retailers are nearly …
The PlayStation Vita launched on the 17th in Japan and within just 2 days Enterbrain reports has recorded 321,407 Vita consoles sold on December 17th and 18th. To put that in perspective of other handhelds that have come out in the past — The Japanese launch of the …
The popular Japanese gaming magazine has awarded Skyrim a perfect 40/40, making it the first Western-developed game to receive such an honour. Famitsu does not award perfect scores too often as Skyrim is the 17th to receive one from the magazine. This puts Skyrim among such …
Despite Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft having policies against Adults Only games on their consoles, the retailer BD-Game does not give a damn and has started selling Blu-ray versions of various erotic visual novels which are playable on the PS3 using its Blu-Ray player.
The Japanese company Key which is known for producing some excellent visual novels, some of which you have likely seen the anime adaptions of like Clannad, released Rewrite two months ago, but according to Push!!, it has only sold just shy of 24,500 copies.
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been continuously year after year getting great sales numbers in North America and Europe, however, it’s quickly dying off in Japan. On June of this year, Microsoft celebrated reaching a milestone of 1.5 million Xbox 360 consoles sold in Japan; unfortunately this …
The Xbox360 General Manager for Japan, Takashi Sensui said that the Kinect did not sell as well as it could’ve or should’ve in the Japanese market. The Kinect remained a success however if ten million units worldwide in under a year is a success. However, he …
North America and Europe are already enjoying the Playstation Network after a slow restoration process, though the Store is still down, they can game online, finally. It seems Japan is yet so lucky as the government officials have yet to allow Sony to enable the service …