This Week In Famitsu

2004/06/25
No. 811

-inside front cover has a full page ad for Taito's Strikers 1945 I & II. Release date is 07/22. No 'Psikyo' logo, but above the Strikers logo it says 'Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol.1'

-an article commemorating the Playstation reaching the 100,000,000 units sold mark. The article compares the Playstation to other popular products like the Toyota Corolla (28,190,000 units), Sony Walkman (210,000,000 units), and Cup Noodle (20,000,000,000 units). In terms of consoles, the next biggest seller is the PS2 (71,300,000 units), then Famicom/Nintendo (61,880,000 units), Super Famicom/Nintendo (49,090,000 units), Gamecube (14,570,000 units), Xbox (13,700,000 units), and finally the Dreamcast (9,300,000 units). No stats for the Saturn.

-an ad for smart media cards for the GBA which will allow you to watch Pokemon anime.

-30 best selling games for the week (in Japan). Here are the Top 10:
(1) PS2 Jissen Pachisuro Hisshouhou! Hokutou No Ken
(2) PS2 Super Robot Wars MX
(3) PS2 Grand Theft Auto Vice City
(4) GC Pikmin 2
(5) GC Wario World
(6) GBA Pocket Monsters Fire Red / Leaf Green
(7) GBA Famicom Mini Gambare Goemon! Karakuri Douchu
(8) GBA Metroid Zero Mission
(9) PS2 (a Pachinko game with a really long title)
(10) GBA Hoshi No Kaabi (Kirby) Kagami No Daimeikyuu

-five new characters announced for Capcom Fighting Jam: Vega, Jedah, Rose, Mukuro, and Alex. From the screenshots I can see how the bottom energy gauge system works: each character gets the gauge from the series that they belong to. Ryu, Guile, and Vega all get the simple one-level gauge from SSFIIX; Rose, Guy, and Sakura get the gauge from SFZ; Alex, Chun-Li, and Yun get the gauge from SFIII etc. There's also a short note from Ishisawa the director (Neo_G) who says it's nice to be working in 2D again. He also mentions that they'll be doing a loketest soon

-a short 2 page spread on the Guilty Gear Isuka PS2 port, with a focus on Robo-Ky and A.B.A.

-more screenshots of Metal Gear Solid 3. This time we have the main character (don't know his name, sorry) sinking in some very realistic looking quicksand

-11 page strategy guide for GTA:VC, and the start of a strategy guide for Silent Hill 4. I haven't really looked at the SH4 guide yet, cause I don't want to ruin any surprises

five new characters announced for Capcom Fighting Jam: Vega, Jedah, Rose, Mukuro, and Alex. From the screenshots I can see how the bottom energy gauge system works: each character gets the gauge from the series that they belong to. Ryu, Guile, and Vega all get the simple one-level gauge from SSFIIX; Rose, Guy, and Sakura get the gauge from SFZ; Alex, Chun-Li, and Yun get the gauge from SFIII etc. There's also a short note from Ishisawa the director (Neo_G) who says it's nice to be working in 2D again. He also mentions that they'll be doing a loketest soon

Which Vega? Bison or Balrog?

From what the Professor said about A.B.A. she sounds awesome.

umm xbox has sold more systems than GC, what kind of japanese fucking conspiracy is this at famitsu??

ClassicMode1985 said:

five new characters announced for Capcom Fighting Jam: Vega, Jedah, Rose, Mukuro, and Alex. From the screenshots I can see how the bottom energy gauge system works: each character gets the gauge from the series that they belong to. Ryu, Guile, and Vega all get the simple one-level gauge from SSFIIX; Rose, Guy, and Sakura get the gauge from SFZ; Alex, Chun-Li, and Yun get the gauge from SFIII etc. There's also a short note from Ishisawa the director (Neo_G) who says it's nice to be working in 2D again. He also mentions that they'll be doing a loketest soon

Which Vega? Bison or Balrog?

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Bison.

"-more screenshots of Metal Gear Solid 3. This time we have the main character (don't know his name, sorry) sinking in some very realistic looking quicksand"

I hope to god you mean Snake.

DashK said:

umm xbox has sold more systems than GC, what kind of japanese fucking conspiracy is this at famitsu??

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They're talking about Japanese sales, obviously.

Do you really think the Xbox outsold even the Saturn?

Now Loading said:

They're talking about Japanese sales, obviously.

Do you really think the Xbox outsold even the Saturn?

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impossible, xbox has not sold 13 million systems in Japan.

i just failed at reading comprehension.

I blame Microsoft for naming their console such a little shit gaijin name!!!!

so uh...

Rose is in Capcom Fighting Jam!

Yay!

Now Loading said:

They're talking about Japanese sales, obviously.

Do you really think the Xbox outsold even the Saturn?

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The Playstation figures were worldwide, so I'm guessing the figures for the other consoles were as well.

Saturn wasn't listed so there's no way to know how it compared to the Xbox.

FYI, saturn sold about 2 million systems in Japan, i think. Worldwide it was about 5-6 million?

Now Loading said:

so uh...

Rose is in Capcom Fighting Jam!

Yay!

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New sprite too. She looks leaner and meaner. I believe the Jedah sprite is new as well.

DashK said:

FYI, saturn sold about 2 million systems in Japan, i think. Worldwide it was about 5-6 million?

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And how many has Xbox sold?

tsukaesugi said:

New sprite too. She looks leaner and meaner. I believe the Jedah sprite is new as well.

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I need scans of this on my desk by tomorrow.

Now Loading said:

I need scans of this on my desk by tomorrow.

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I'll need $50 Paypalled to my account.

Now Loading said:

And how many has Xbox sold?

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i don't know, but if xbox broke the 1 million mark in japan, it's news to me.

tsukaesugi said:

New sprite too. She looks leaner and meaner. I believe the Jedah sprite is new as well.

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word is she hasnt been redrawn.... she looked pretty much the same to me... hard to be sure though

scans courtesy of 8-1


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beelzebubble said:

word is she hasnt been redrawn.... she looked pretty much the same to me... hard to be sure though

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I've been playing the hell out of SFZ and SFZ2' over the last week or so, and her CFJ sprite is definitely different.

tsukaesugi said:

I've been playing the hell out of SFZ and SFZ2' over the last week or so, and her CFJ sprite is definitely different.

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maybe. i wouldnt bet money either way though... they always look different at the loke tests even with my own eyes but they turn out being the same....

That looks just like her Zero series sprite to me.

You guys are right... my bad.

Just threw SFZ3 in the Playstation and checked. It's the same sprite.

tsukaesugi said:

You guys are right... my bad.

Just threw SFZ3 in the Playstation and checked. It's the same sprite.

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happens to me all the time... i swear im prolly the worst person in the world at judging sprites.

oh well a recycled sprite job game is far better than nothing.. the character roster is looking real nice and cant wait to play it in the cades

just wish that dinosaur was out...

The roster looks very nice.

WTF? Still no Ken?!