Oh yeah, but The Pokemon Company (the artists formally know as Game Freak) don't touch consoles for whatever reason. Probably busy churning out sequels, but yeah, who gives a shit when they're as fantastic as they have been.

Pokemon is more aimed at Japan than children in general though and don't forget, handhelds over there are much bigger deals than consoles. Other than the Vita that is, but that thing is unfortunately bombing everywhere.

3DS just passed 10 million sold in Japan because everyone went fucking crazy for Animal Crossing over there. That's beaten the PS3 life to date sales. Now in 2013, they've got Monster Hunter 4, Dragon Quest and Pokemon coming out amongst others. It's going to explode.

I knew Animal Crossing had become one of their big franchises, but holy shit I didn't realise how big.

http://www.cubed3.com/media/2012/December/acchart.gif

All those acronyms! :eek:

I wonder how well New Leaf will sell here. I mean, Animal Crossing isn't nearly that big here, is it?

Only numbers that I can find based on Wild World is that it sold 4.7 million copies in Japan by July 2008 (came out in 2005) and as of March 2011, it had sold 11.51 million copies worldwide. Over half the sales probably came from Japan, but it doesn't look like it's a slouch in the sales department in the west either.

The Wii one "only" sold 3.38 million worldwide though.

The crazy thing about those Animal Crossing 3DS numbers is that it was sold out for the first few weeks because the cart is the largest 3DS cart so far and was slower to manufacture and that it doesn't include eShop sales.

Wasn't a significant portion of the AC:NL sales in Japan downloaded?

The numbers don't have direct downloads in them at all. The Media Create ones are all carts only, the Famitsu ones include download codes you can buy in stores. The latest figures show 300k were download codes.

No-one knows how many direct eShop purchases there were. Nintendo won't release it.

Lego Marvel :D

That seems possible.

More chance of a Marvel vs DC game.

Daily Gaming News:
1) More Steam Box news as Valve denies rumors of the console launching in 2013 while Gabe Newell explained they are currently experimenting with several prototypes and tablet-like controllers.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...am-box-rumors/
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/gabe-n...ox-plans/4511/

2) According to Microsoft, more Xbox Live NUads are being planned for the future after being pleased with the huge success of the feature ever since it was launched last August.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/xbox_...tment-planned/

3) Fallout 4 could be getting an official announcement in the near future after a teaser was sent on Twitter by the voice actor of "Three Dog" from Fallout 3.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/fall...ctor-three-dog

4) Microsoft reveals a video and some details regarding a new Kinect project called "IllumiRoom." In theory it would be able to create an augmented reality-like setting which covers an area the size of a living room and reacts depending on what is being shown.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...om-technology/
http://www.destructoid.com/new-kinec...m-242076.phtml

HA!

I saw video of the Kinect thing. I saw no evidence of AR. It just looked like some kind of bog standard projector.

Even in Lego form it would be fantastic, maybe more so.

Pipe dream, at least for now.

At least we're dreaming big.

What's that Mario Kart looking clone in that Xbox video?

reeeeeeaaalllly can't wait for Fallout 4.

I think it's just a generic kart racer to show what the thing does. Not an actual game.

This!:y:

Although my hesitation with Fallout now, is that it's dead world with drab browns and greys will look unimpressive after playing in skyrim's lush forests, and incredible mountainscapes.

Nah....

The post apocalyptic thing will still work. If anything, their stories have always been more compelling than the Fallout stories, IMO. Will still be a great title.

Who's that <s>Pokemon</s> Capcom character.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/5716/cca.png

30th Anniversery retro games thing.

Was going to mark out when I saw the cowboy silhouette, thinking it would be Sunset Riders. Then I remembered that was by Konami :$

Why don't you love Sunset Riders, Konami!? :'(

Ha! Sunset Riders was sooooooooooooooooooo fun!

Remember playing it in the arcade and then bought the SNES port later. The Mexican dude with the shotguns was the best!

VIVA CORMANO!

Cormano was the bees knees.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Update to a town in Connecticut planning for a video game "burning" day as the event has been cancelled. The group in charge is claiming victory though since they managed to get people to discuss about violent games even if most of it was towards ridiculing the event itself.
http://www.destructoid.com/connectic...s-242130.phtml

2) Activision announces their version of The Walking Dead game is currently planned for a late March 2013 release for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii U. They also recently released an official trailer for the game.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/activi...in-march/4513/

3) Frank O’Connor, boss of the Halo franchise, states the studio will be working a lot harder to ensure Halo 5 doesn't suffer any technical or scheduling problems that affected Halo 4. They also said the things that worked the best with Halo 4 will be carried over to Halo 5 and they gained a lot of experience and knowledge from Halo Anniversary and Halo 4 to benefit the next game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...r-with-halo-5/

I hope this Walking Dead game doesn't kill any steam the TellTale game has just like Sanctum of Slime did for Ghostbusters.

Why should it?

Yeah. They canceled the game burning in Southington, CT because they group couldn't afford cops to provide crowd control.

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These guys are great.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Current rumors involving the PS4/Orbis states the console could end up being released by the end of this year or roughly within the same launch window as the next Xbox (Fall 2013 - Spring 2014).
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...to-q4-release/

2) Developer CD Projekt RED released a teaser trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 with early details involving a TBA 2015 release date.
http://www.giantbomb.com/heres-cd-pr...-2077/17-6947/

3) Speaking of Cyberpunk 2077's trailer, a hidden message was also discovered within the trailer teasing at Witcher 3 being released next year.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...her-3-message/

Daily Gaming News:
1) Amazon is holding a special THQ bundle sale from now until January 20. The bundle includes 6 PC games, has a 91% discount, and only costs $12.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/%E2%...s-thq-games-91

2) Bioware's PR problems regarding Star Wars The Old Republic continues after it was revealed the studio's newest plan to tackle the same-sex issue was to segregate all the gay/same-sex stuff to just a single planet.
http://www.destructoid.com/star-wars...--242389.phtml

3) VP of Sony's Home Entertainment division teases a huge Playstation hardware announcement will occur before E3 and most likely as the official debut of the PS4.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...tion-4-reveal/

4) Valve confirms recent screenshots of a previously cancelled Half-Life 2 Episode 4 are indeed legit. The episode would have taken place in and primarily as a side branch within Episode 2.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...e-2-episode-4/

Planetside 2 looks amazing. Wish it was possible on consoles.

Daily Gaming News:
1) Valve reveals 10 games have been approved from Steam's Greenlight service and will arrive on the Steam store in the near future.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/valve-...eenlight/4519/

2) According to retailer GAME, Ubisoft is planning on releasing both a Far Cry and Splinter Cell Ultimate compilations with a release date planned later this year and possible as UK exclusives.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...tions-spotted/

3) Deep Silver apologizes after recent backlash involving a UK exclusive collector's edition for Dead Island Riptide called "“Zombie Bait Edition” although did not state if the bundle will be pulled. The incident involved a statue in the bundle being a bloodied headless torso of a woman wearing a bikini.
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/9...orso_super.jpg
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/dead-i...ologizes/4518/