Quote:1. PlayStation 2 41,525 1,540,357
2. Game Boy Advance SP 35,988 1,507,481
3. GameCube 9,778 417,081
4. Game Boy Advance 2,362 162,883
5. Xbox 238 18,703
6. Swan Crystal 76 6,230
7. PSOne 70 12,530
Japanese hardware charts thanks to Media Create.
Paper Mario RPG sees a good first week sales, entering in at number one and selling twice the amount of the title below it, certainly encouraging sales.
No. Title Publisher
1. NEW Paper Mario RPG
Gamecube- 159,400
Nintendo
2. NEW Tenchu Kurenai
PS2- 75,800
From Software
3. V Powerful Pro Baseball 11
PS2- 55,800
Konami
4. NEW Boktai 2: Solar Gameboy Django
GBA- 37,800
Konami
5. NEW Naruto RPG: Uketsugareshi Hi no Ishi
GBA- 32,000
Tomy
6. NEW Taiko no Tetsujin: 4th Generation
PS2- 30,983
Namco
7. NEW Full Metal Alchemist: Sonata of Memories
GBA- 30,851
Bandai
8. NEW Gradius V
PS2- 30,821
Konami
9. V Jissen Pachislot Hisshouhou Hokutonoken
PS2- 20,346
Sammy
10. NEW Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku II International
GBA- 19,349
Banpresto
Quote:Nintendo of Japan has updated their website with a massive listing of plenty of titles in development for the DS. Here goes:
New RPG (GameArts)
Living High Killing Low (Genki)
Shutokou Battle / Tokyo Xtreme Racing (Genki)
Goemon (Konami)
Vandal Hearts (Konami)
Survival Kids (Konami)
Boktai (Konami)
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball series (Konami)
Castlevania (Konami)
Winning Eleven series (Konami)
Jissen Pachislot Hisshouhou Hokutonoken (Sammy)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles New Work (Square Enix)
Seiken Densetsu (Secret of Mana) New Work (Square Enix)
Dragon Quest Monsters New Work (Square Enix)
Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest New Work (Square Enix)
Sonic Dice (Sega)
Rakugaki Kingdom Series (Taito)
Puzzle Bobble Series (Taito)
Mysterious Dungeons (Chun Soft)
Action Game (D3 Publisher)
Monster Farm Latest Work (Tecmo)
Team Ninja New Work (Tecmo)
Naruto (Tomy)
Zoids (Tomy)
New RPG (Namco)
New Mr. Driller (Namco)
Tengai Makyou Series (Hudson)
Nintendogs (Nintendo)
One Piece (Bandai)
Meteos (Bandai)
Dragon Ball Z (Banpresto)
Harvest Moon DS (Marvelous)
River King series (Marvelous)
Original RPG (Marvelous)
Wrestling (Yukes)
Chobi Island 3 (Rocket Company)
Not only does this reveal Square-Enix's full line of titles, but it confirms that Nintendo's Nintendogs will indeed be a full game. As well, Konami will be bringing us Goemon, which was oddly absent from the Game Boy Advance after all this time. As you can see, dozens of other top notch software is on the way as well. Stay tuned. (wj <http://www.nintendojo.com/staff/view_item.php?1036346134>)
Holy crap, a new RPG from GameArts, a new Goemon game (PLEASE let it be a port or sequel to the first N64 game!), a new Castlevania (hopefully 2D), a new Seiken Densetsu (I guess we now know which system the new SD is landing on! Woo!), Harvest Moon DS (better have online support!!), and a crapload of support from Square! YES!!!
Posted by: Fittisize - 1st August 2004, 3:20 PM - Forum: Ramble City
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Any Michael Crichton fans here? This is great news...he was due to come out with a new book pretty soon. I can't wait.
Quote:HARPERCOLLINS ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF
MICHAEL CRICHTON’S STATE OF FEAR
One-Day Laydown of December 7th
Around the World in the English Language
New York, NY (July 27, 2004) – HarperCollins Publishers today announced the publication of State of Fear, the new blockbuster novel by #1 bestselling author Michael Crichton. The one-day laydown is December 7, 2004. This is Crichton’s first novel since The New York Times #1 bestseller Prey, which was released in November 2002. State of Fear will be published in hardcover, audio, large print and e-book formats simultaneously around the world in the English language. The announced first printing is 2 million copies.
HarperCollins is one of the leading English-language publishers in the world and is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NCP, NCPDP). Headquartered in New York, the company has publishing groups in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australasia. Its publishing groups include the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children’s Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand and HarperCollins India.
Has anybody read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? Wow. I never read sci-fi (fantasy is NOT sci-fi) and have never been a big fan of all the alien stuff, but this book was incredible. I couldn't put it down, and if not for the wierd philisophical last chapter it would be one of my favorite books. Still, the rest of the book more than makes up for the end wierdness, and it's only a couple minor details.
The story is not extremely original. Aliens have attacked earth twice, and we've only won by luck. So to make sure we win the next war, the government begins searching for genius children, and trains the best to be unbeatable commanders by playing war games. Ender is one of these kids, and is the most talented they've ever found. So with time running out, he Earth's last hope for survival.
It's not just fun sci-fi, but takes a hard look at stuff like war and the value of one life over another and is very interesting. I really enjoyed that, but takes a plunge off the deep end in the end.
It is very well written and I feel like I can completely relate to Ender in so many ways which only made it more exciting. If you like to read anything, I highly recomend it. I am definently going to be reading more of Card's stuff, but I think I may not read the next book in the series right away. From what I've heard, it picks up where Ender's Game left off, with the wierd philisophical pseudo-religious stuff that I didn't like. There is a parallel novel to this, called Ender's Shadow, which follows the same story but from the point of view of one of Ender's friends, Bean. I've heard it is very good, so I think I'll pick that up next.
