Translated by NeoGAF : Nintendo and others are requesting that these "majicon" devices, such as R4, are prohibited from import and sale in Japan, via the Tokyo courthouse today. They've got a huge amount of support too, with 53 other companies adding their names to the list, including Square Enix, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Koei, etc.
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Japan has received some strange DS software when it comes to the "non-games" segment, including training in everything from foreign languages to your face, but this may just top them all. IGN reports on a newly announced game from Bandai Namco Japan called 99 Tears. The goal of the game is to make the player cry.
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A homebrew project for the DS known as Colors! has drawn attention to the fact that the DS’ touchscreen is pressure sensitive.
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" For too long entomology has gone ignored in game design, with us having to turn to the likes of Insector-X and SimAnt for our six-legged fix. Thankfully niche game publisher Atlus USA aims to change all of that with next March's release of Drone Tactics, a newly announced game of 'mechanized insect RPG strategy' for the DS. "
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"Today, Ignition Entertainment announced that it has signed a long-term partnership with Marvelous Entertainment. The publisher will help bring the Japanese company's arcade classics to North America. The first titles covered under this deal include Bubble Bobble Double Shot and New Zealand Story Revolution for DS and Rainbow Island Evolution for PSP in early 2008."
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"It took the Nintendo 16 years to sell a record breaking 119 million Game Boy units. And yet the Nintendo DS has now reached the 50 million mark in less than three years. 50 million DS consoles sold Nearly 20 million of those DS consoles were sold in Japan alone."
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Japan Still Lining Up for DS Lites
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Starting Sept. 12 Nintendo will be dropping the price of the DSi to $150 and the price of the DSi XL to $170. The DS Lite will remain $130.
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For the quarter, the company sold only 3.15 million units of its DS game console, down from 6 million a year ago as fewer software titles squashed demand for the DS. Lower prices of the console in Japan and Europe also took a toll on revenue. Nintendo is looking for higher demand and better results when its new 3DS debuts later this year or early in 2011.
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EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich has predicted that Nintendo will announce a true successor to the DS later this year ahead of a 2011 launch. “We believe that due to the aging technology, the possibility of new competitors in 2011, a decline in publisher support and piracy, Nintendo will launch a successor to the DS within the next 15 months, and likely announce such in the next eight months,” he said in a research note.
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