announced for GC... quite a surprise. And odd... after all, didn't Tales of Symphonia sell quite a bit better? But the next Tales game is PS2-only... strange.
Quote:TGS 2005: Baten Kaitos II announced for GameCube
Second installment of Namco's GameCube RPG to be shown at the Tokyo Game Show.
According to the latest issue of Famitsu magazine, Namco is developing a sequel to its GameCube RPG, Baten Kaitos. Titled Baten Kaitos II, the game is slated for release in Japan this December.
Baten Kaitos II will take place in the same fantasy world as the original installment, albeit 20 years prior to the original game. The main character is a youth named Sagi, a cheerful assassin working for the powerful Alfard Empire, which also appeared in the original Baten Kaitos. The sequel will see Sagi go on a journey to find the source of a series of unnatural phenomena. Journeying together with Sagi on his adventures is heroine Milly and a mysterious mechanical doll named Giro. Milly works in the same assassin group as Sagi, while Giro meets up with Sagi during his quest to discover his origins. Namco hints there will be additional party members, including characters from the original Baten Kaitos.
Baten Kaitos II will feature new continents to explore, although players will also get to revisit towns and dungeons that were present in the original game. The game will once again feature the unique "Magnus" card-battle system. A trailer of Baten Kaitos II will be on display at the 2005 Tokyo Game Show.
I dont know about you but I think having anything remotely Crescent moon shaped is a horrible idea "the terrorist and radicals" will use to mock and taunt the victims.
We should be stabbing sword on the radicals responsible for the terrorist attack on 9/11 not paying homage to them.
Here is another alternative proposal for the site.
Quote:The flight 93 memorial should be a monolith "Helenistic style structure with a underground dug out basement.
Simular to how the chinese emperors "tomb" was a massive replica of the chinese afterlife.
My idea is somthing to demonstrate where both the victims and villains of the atroscity are right now in the afterlife , Heroic passengers on top in heaven as saintly angels in the upper levels Each Idol statue of the victims , Will have details about his/herself life, Loved Ones ,Victims carved statues Will be as close to likeness as possible.
Hijackers will be losers stuck in the underground basement of such a memorial temple with some hollywood style flame torches scorching statues of the terrorists, having Demons and Daevas porking them with pitch forks sodomizing them. To give a life like demonstration to the world of what will happen to murderous sons of bitches.
Steelers 34, Titans 7. Ben Roethlisberger, perfect QB rating. Where are you, Fittisize? :D:D:D:D
Some surprises... Miami put a bad beating on the Broncos, 27-10. Some non-Surprises... A Redskins/Bears game where neither team managed to score ten points and it just came down to who sucked just a little harder.
Quote:Courtesy of Media-Create, we have the most recent sales figures from Japan.
Overall sales for the period saw a huge dropoff from previous weeks, likely due to the annual end of summer shift and a dearth of compelling new software offerings. In fact, the only new title to make it into the top 10 was the latest Bleach (anime) game for the PSP. Nintendo continued to be held up in the charts on the strength of their handhelds, with their brain-centric "non-games" again exhibiting impressive staying power. Word of mouth must really be fueling the success of these simple and intuitive titles, each of which is steadily approaching the 500k mark in total units sold. As if it hasn't been said before, these "games" are quite the phenomenon. It will be fascinating to observe their popularity once the localized versions hit the western markets.
Also maintaining their chart residence was Jump Super Stars and Sega's hit Mushiking. It should be noted that Sega has recently announced that they are hard at work on a DS version of the beetle-battler, with a target release date in December. Wonder if it will utilize Nintendo WiFi Connection? Nothing is for sure yet, but you can bet it will only serve to reinforce the obviously monstrous following the series has garnered. As for whether the series will make it out of Japan, it should be noted that toy maker Hasbro intends to release the original collectible card-based form of the game in the U.S. If the experiment proves successful, the west may very well see the genesis of their own Mushiking craze. Now back to the numbers:
No. System Title Publisher
1 PS2 Tales of Legendia 51,676 Namco
2 DS Brain Training 33,745 Nintendo
3 DS Gentle Brain Exercises 31,445 Nintendo
4 PS2 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY: Generation of C.E. 27,598 Bandai
5 PSP BLEACH: Heat the Soul 2 14,546 SCE
6 DS JUMP Super Stars 21,826 Nintendo
7 PS2 World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 20,821 Konami
8 PS2 NARUTO: Uzumaki Ninden 17,381 Bandai
9 GBA The King of Beetle Mushiking: Greatest Champion 12,562 Sega
10 PS2 Winning Post 7 10,731 Koei
On the hardware side... well, in recent months the DS hasn't needed any significant new releases to sell a healthy amount. Nothing has changed as sales actually increased a bit from last week despite no significant new software. Here is hoping that many of these new DS owners are buying up quality recent releases like Konami's Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow and Lost in Blue... but more likely they are purchasing Brain Training for Adults. New customers and new markets indeed.
Meanwhile, the GBA Micro is just about to land...Here are the figures for this week:
No. Console Week Sales Last Week Sales Year Sales
1 Nintendo DS 58,579 57,313 1,578,877
2 PlayStation 2 26,282 27,161 1,376,124
3 PlayStation Portable 22,610 20,322 1,193,086
4 Game Boy Advance SP 11,081 11,144 505,561
5 GameCube 2,388 2,586 153,319
6 Game Boy Advance 538 652 18,520
7 Xbox 198 130 10,175
Conclusive evidence that indeed two screens ARE better than one!
