'PSP' Category

Just a heads up for fellow importers, Play-Asia is having their annual Lucky Lunar New Year Sale for nine days. Nothing really interest me at the moment except the few below. Check out the announcement page for more. Please note that most Asian version are actually the Japanese version with a brief English manual.

• Final Fantasy XIII (Japanese language Version) (Asia) $59.90
• Naruto Shippuuden: Narutimate Accel 3 (Asia) $44.90
• Gundam Battle Universe (Gundam 30th Anniversary Collection) (PSP the Best) (Asia) $19.90
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus (Asia) $44.90
• Persona (Asia, Japanese language version) $19.90
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy – Universal Tuning (Japan) $39.90
• Gran Turismo (US) $29.90
• Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (Asia) $29.90

Are you busy collecting stickers for your tanks in Senjou no Valkyria 2? The game was released to some hot reception in Japan last week, selling more than 90,000 copies to debut at second spot of the latest Japanese charts. To begin its strategy guide, Weekly Famitsu ran a little interview with Chief Producer Shuntaro Tanaka, Producer Shinji Motoyama and Director Takeshi Ozawa where the trio share some tips for the game.

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Quite surprised at Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep being able to hold on to the top spot actually. But reviews and words of mouth have been positive for the game, which has now sold more than 600,000 copies. A healthy supply of new titles keep PSP on top of the hardware chart as well.

Note: Enterbrain numbers not available at this point. Charts will be updated with more figures when they become available, view the Top 10 after the jump, ranking in full can be view here.

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The upcoming issue of Weekly Famitsu spend three pages explaining the Pilot Making part of Gundam Assault Survive. As you can see from the scans, things you can customize include name, genre, face type, hair style, abilities, birth place, voice type, initial skills and MS parts. My initial report on the game can be read here.

Selected from more than 20 options, Megane Kikuya’s final illustration for .hack//Link box art (click for larger view) is certainly a great piece of art. “I purposely picked deeper colors to point out the scale of this RPG. There are 11 characters in the illustration, four of them drawn in full body, this is the most time consuming work I have done in my life.” she says.

I’m hardly a big .hack fans but this title grabbed my attention for some reasons. The game is apparently the final episode in the series and will have our hero Tokio travel back in time to meet all the characters from the series and partner with more than 30 of them in the game for their adventure. The recent Weekly Famitsu (online version here) report look into its “Cross Over Events” and revealed a couple more characters. There is also an interview with series creator and CyberConnect2 boss Hiroshi Matsuyama, who says that while there will be manga and animes of the series in the future, this will be the last .hack game… unless .hack//Link “sold too well and someone order him to make a game”.

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Gundam is another series that found its new home in Japanese PSP and after four successful games, the Gundam Battle team is launching a new series with a new title called Gundam Assault Survive featuring animes that have never appeared in Gundam Battle series and a couple of brand new systems, Linked Map and Teamworks. Here are some of the early info revealed in the recent Weekly Famitsu, who also did an interview with the producers.

Hirono Kay, producer from Bandai Namco, shares the reasons behind launching a completely new series. “With Gundam Battle series, there are things that we couldn’t produce due to various reasons. This is also the time I feel we must move on to new directions.” “By adding new content and revising the system of the previous games, we manage to further refine its mechanics but it make parts of the game too complicated. We feel it’s time to start from the beginning to make it easier for new players.” added Yagi Masanori, producer from Artdink.

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Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep with close to half a million copies sold (slightly more than that if you like MediaWorks :) top the latest Japanese charts easily. This is in-line with all the big Square releases for PSP and better than Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, which opens with 300,000 copies back in May last year. Birth by Sleep’s PSP bundle also helps the system tops the hardware charts with more than 145,000 units sold.

Note: Famitsu numbers not available at this point. Charts will be updated with more figures when they become available, view the Top 10 after the jump, ranking in full can be view here.

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Got caught up with works and it’s time to play catch up with the ranking again :) If you have been following this website for PSP news (thanks!!), don’t worry, I will continue to post news, just not as regular as it used to be.

View the Top 10 after the jump, ranking in full can be view here.

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A couple of interesting new PSP titles can be found in the upcoming issue of Weekly Famitsu. Konami popular arcade racer GTI Club is going handheld with the title GTI Club World while Sting’s strategy game Knights in the Nightmare is getting a PSP version. Been wanting to get the later for my DS but will wait for this instead now :) Will post updates later.

Just want to get this out before I forgot :) No PSP titles in the Top 10 for the week although Phantasy Star Portable 2 appears to do well at 12th (full chart here).

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