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Source: Destructoid

Nintendo held a press conference today and announced some pretty big news.  For starters, the newest iteration of the DS has been revealed.  It’s slightly thinner and features a camera, a 17% bigger screen, and an SD card slot.  These improvements do not come without a cost; it will not have a GBA slot.  Japan gets it Nov 1 of this year, and we here in the Americas will be waiting until sometime “late next year.”  Continue reading ‘Big Day for DS Today: New Hardware Revision, Two RPGs’ »

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Source: Game Watch

The Xbox 360 has long been the black sheep of the console war in Japan, but it got a bit of a boost this week with the release of Tales of Vesperia. The latest installment of the Tales series debuted on the charts at #4 selling 108,000 copies in its first week. The 360 meanwhile quadrupled its normally low weekly sales numbers, moving 20,000 units rather than the regular 5,000.

Tales of Vesperia is one of five RPGs on the top ten for the week of August 4-10 in Japan. Phantasy Star Portable for the PSP took top spot with 148,000 units sold (for a total of 490,000). Fire Emblem DS was close behind with 145,000 in its first week on the market. Dragon Quest V DS stands at #5, selling 73,000 units this week, putting its total sales past the one million mark. And Summon Night 2 for the DS, also released this week, managed to sell 30,000 and grab spot #7.

Source: Gamekyo

The Fire Emblem series is returning to a portable system. The newest installment, Fire Emblem: The New Shadow Dragons & the Blade of Light, is a remake of the first Fire Emblem game, which was released on the Famicom in 1990. The game features Prince Marth, who has been popularized in North America via the Smash Bros. series, in his quest to defeat a great enemy and rescue his kidnapped sister. The remake will feature additional characters, classes, and battle systems that were not in the original. It will also offer online play via the Nintendo Wi-Fi service. Continue reading ‘New Fire Emblem DS Details Surface’ »