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November 19th, 2009 at 12:45pm
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Pretty much everyone can guess why No More Heroes is being released again — Marvelous needs money. During a Q&A presentation (PDF link, Japanese) about its fiscal Q2 2010 earnings, Marvelous boldly revealed that three out of its four 2009 Wii releases lost money, though it didn’t say which was the winner.
Muramasa sold 47,000 units in Japan, the company said, not specifying American sales. Arc Rise Fantasia, which will be published Stateside by Ignition, sold 45,000 copies. Little King’s Story sold 26,000 copies in Japan, 37,000 copies in North America, and 67,000 in Europe. Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga, which came out in September in North America, sold just 16,000 copies (Japanese sales, which started in October, are not mentioned). Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility on Wii somehow sold 57,000 units in 2009 despite being a 2007 release in Japan, a 2008 release in America, and not out until October in Europe and Australia.
Because of lower development costs, Marvelous said, PSP software was more successful, with four out of five releases making money on similar sales numbers. Half-Minute Hero was Marvelous’s overall best-performing title, at 70,000 copies sold.
[Via Siliconera]
Marvelous lost money on most of its Wii releases originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 18th, 2009 at 02:45pm
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XSEED’s Half-Minute Hero is all about compressing game genres, including RPG, RTS, and shmups, down into 30-second increments. So it’s only appropriate that a price drop on the game is also under a strict time limit, as it is with this Amazon Deal of the Day. For today only (or until Amazon runs out), the game is marked down to $18.98.
Sure, it would be even more appropriate if the sale only lasted half a minute, but then we wouldn’t have time to write this post about it and tell you. Our post would look more like this: “hey guys haflmintue hero on sale cheap amazonlike 19 bucks”
One-day sale on Half-Minute Hero originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 29th, 2009 at 06:00pm
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Rising Star Games has announced a European release for Fragile (as Fragile Dreams), Namco Bandai’s action-adventure game about exploring a haunted, post-disaster Japan, in March 2010. That’s around the same time XSEED plans to bring the Namco Bandai title to North America.
Also in March, the publisher will release Rune Factory Frontier on Wii, and Avalon Code and My World My Way on DS. Before that, in February, Rising Star will release Half-Minute Hero on PSP, and, through “affiliate label” Gamebridge, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Way of the Samurai 3. We’ve got Rising Star’s full lineup listed after the break.
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Rising Star’s Q1 lineup for Europe includes Fragile, Way of the Samurai 3 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 5th, 2009 at 04:15pm
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Okay, so it’s pretty clear all of us are going to buy Half-Minute Hero. The only questions left are: when? And how? XSEED’s bringing the clever micro-RPG game to retail stores on October 13th, with a digital PSN release to follow one week later on October 22nd. “Timing is just off for whatever reason,” we were told by a PR representative.
Half-Minute Hero’s bite-sized gameplay makes it an ideal game to throw on your Memory Stick. But, will gamers have the patience to wait an entire week for the PSN version? By our calculations, you could play Half-Minute Hero over 25,000 times on UMD before the PSN version comes out!
Half-Minute Hero rushes to UMD on October 13, PSN one week later originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 9th, 2009 at 03:00pm
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If you read the headline carefully enough, you’ll notice that there is more than one demo coming out for the upcoming PSP Half-Minute Hero. However, the first demo will be available on the PlayStation Store tomorrow. It’s quite possibly the zaniest game to hit the platform in a long time, forcing players to vanquish evil in 30 second bursts (seriously!). Hero mode is just one of four different modes hidden in the full game.
It’s hard to effectively describe the frantic gameplay through words. Thankfully, you can completely ignore our opinions and just give the demo a spin.
First Half-Minute Hero demo coming tomorrow originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 20th, 2009 at 03:00pm
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There were three letters that went through our heads when we played XSEED’s English adaptation of the upcoming Half-Minute Hero. For those not in the know, the PSP-exclusive “RPG” has a clever twist: the gameplay occurs in frantic thirty second chunks. (For detailed impressions, read our hands-on here.) The English demo we played retained the same action and charm as the Japanese original — only this time, we could understand what was going on.
Certainly, Half-Minute Hero has a niche appeal. However, anyone who tries it out should be able to understand what makes the game so brilliant by giving it a try. We were told by an XSEED representative that a downloadable demo is planned, and that it should be available some time next month. The demo will feature two stages from the “Hero 30″ mode, where you have 30 seconds to level up and destroy a wizard that threatens to destroy the world.
Those expecting a UMD version of Half-Minute Hero may be disappointed to know that XSEED is looking into making the game a PlayStation Network exclusive. Games like Patapon 2 and Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! both skipped the UMD format. A game that’s as pick-up-and-play as Half-Minute Hero does seem ideally suited for PSN distribution.
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Half-Minute Hero may be PSN exclusive, demo coming in August originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 29th, 2009 at 05:00pm
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Half-Minute Hero wasn’t always meant to be a commercial title; it was originally just an ordinary flash game until producer Kenichiro Takaki saw its potential. Takaki, along with the game’s director Kotaro Yoshida, explained in the latest issue of Famitsu PSP+PS3 (via PSP Hyper) that Half-Minute Hero was inspired by some of Yoshida’s work he had done during his spare time, specifically a Flash game that only took him a day to make.
Takaki was amused with the concept and pitched the idea of making a retro game for PSP, liking the fast-paced gameplay and old-school art style most of all. From there, the rest was history. If you’ve yet to see Half-Minute Hero, be sure to check out our gameplay clips. We instantly fell in love with it and we think you just might, too.
Half-Minute Hero was based off a side project Flash game originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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