over at nintendonow.com there is a newspiece about Jump Superstars first day sales...

apparently it' s sold over 320,000 copies on one day alone!!!

jesus, the DS is doing better and better

Yeah, I knew from the start that DS and Japan were meant to be. Now, as for the US....

Hey, look! We both have DS avatars!! I bet I like DS more than you...

not-uh i like the DS even more also hre are some scores from famitsu.

- Here are the latest Japanese game review scores:

Nintendo DS


Akumajou Dracula: Aoitsuki no Juujika (Konami): 9, 8, 8, 8 - (33/40)
Jump! Super Stars (Nintendo): 8, 8, 9, 7 - (32/40)
Kyouryuu Ouja Ketteisen: Kyouryuu Grand Prix (MTO): 6, 6, 6, 5 - (23/40)
Lunar Genesis (Marvelous): 6, 9, 6, 6 - (27/40)
Puzzle Bobble DS (Taito): 7, 6, 6, 6 - (25/40)
Survival Kids: Lost in Blue (Konami): 8, 8, 7, 8 - (31/40)

I don' t get how Lunar got three 6' s and one 9. I am stil getting it no matter what. I also disagree with the Puzzle bobble scores i love that game it' s so addicting.

oh by the way the first one Akumajou Dracula is Castlevania.

ahh but my av is the REAL DS not the crappy ol' prototype ;)

I don' t know, but believe it or not, I liked the prototype DS more than the real one.

yea the DS is doing good in japan

The DS is doing well in Japan.


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Okay I' ll shut up.

What the flying hell is Jump Superstars?

*DeJaVu from the Plasma/LCD thread..*

Jump Superstars is a four player (more than two player, at least) fighting game starring many Manga and Anime characters. It' s in 2D, but is very addictive, and takes advantage of dual screens; the top screen showcases the fighting, while the touch screen lays out the characters' attacks in Comic book form. Very nice. Anyway, it' s selling like hordes in Japan.


Actually, if you listen really carefully, you can hear the PSP trying to get out of it' s grave..

Actually, if you listen really carefully, you can hear the PSP trying to get out of it' s grave..

Given its sales performance in the U.S. at least, I see no grave digging going on

Hardware sales are solid, UMD movies are selling like mad, and 2 PSP games cracked the NPD top ten sales chart for July.

this has confused me now..

looking at the japanese software sales for the week, JSS is down for just over 220,000...

what happened there?!

Ok, who on these forums live in Japan?

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I didn' t think so.

I mean, why are we concentrating on Japanese sales charts and scores? I would personally love to hear more about this game (Jump Superstars) than to hear inane banter about sales in a country where the top selling games include " Horse Racing" and " Egg Monster Hero"

this isn' t a concentration...

but why does ur view mean we can' t discuss...

if the news is 320,000 copies of a game were sold in a day, why, because it happened in japan, is it not relevant?

i think you need some culture mate

oh and i live in the uk, so should i ignore the US news?

ORIGINAL: evangelion

this isn' t a concentration...

but why does ur view mean we can' t discuss...

if the news is 320,000 copies of a game were sold in a day, why, because it happened in japan, is it not relevant?

i think you need some culture mate

Sorry. I think I just kinda blew up there.

Basically, I' m just tired of everyone in America and the U.K. showing all this love to Japanese developers and companies, but we get no love back, y' know. I mean, Japan is so " anti-gaijin" that it makes me sick. We embrace their consoles, they shun ours. We embrace their games. They don' t even look at ours. I tell you what; it' s not because Rare or Starbreeze Studios or Bungie make bad games. It' s not because the Xbox was some underpowered piece of crap that you have to replace every year (PS2). No; it' s because these things are NOT Japanese! End of story. Honestly, I belive that Microsoft is doing vital work, it trying to get some kind of foothold in Japan. I think that both the western and eastern worlds will gain a lot from a cross pollination. Not just us receiving their ideas and culture, but them accepting ours.

I don' t mean to sound anti-japanese or anything. It actually couldn' t be further from the truth. I like their consoles, and games. I love anime. I think their history and culture is so rich and interesting (not to mention their women are HOT). I just think it' s sad when so many people here (U.S., U.K.) embrace another culture, only to be treated like we have no business in the marketplace.

It makes me happy to see developers jumping on board the Xbox camp this time around. It means that they want to show that the west is a viable player in the game (so to speak).

to be fair, you' re pretty much spot on there...

over here we embrace japan, it' s games, it' s tv shows, it' s culture...

but not the other way round...