
Welcome to this week's Games & Toys update, our weekly summary in which we are sumarizing all new products listed at Play-Asia.com from the last 7 days.
More than 30 new titles have been published in Japan during the last May release week. Play-Asia's top selling product of this week has been Capcom's PlayStation2™ fighting compilation
Street Fighter Zero - Fighters Generation, followed by the Xbox360™ Asia version of
Ninety-Nine Nights as well as
Shin Gouketuji Ichizoku: Bonnou Kaihou,
Oretachi Geasen Zoku Sono 15: Akumajou Dracula and
Oretachi Geasen Zoku Sono 16: Contra (all PS2™).
For all fans of the classical 2D shooting genre, Milestone's Arcade shooter Radilgy has been published by Digital Gain on
PlayStation2™ and
GameCube™.
Top handheld sellers from this week have been the Japanese version of
New Super Mario Bros. (NDS™), Magna Carta Portable (
Asia/
Japanese), Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable (
Asia/
Japanese) and Sony's Talkman Euro (also available in lots of assorted versions).
Popular toy releases from this week have been JakksPacific's
Capcom TV Games and
Namco TV Games, restock of the
Tales of Symphonia One Coin Figure Series and the latest set of Dot-S Puzzles (
Super Mario Bros Type C and
Type D).
As usually, here's a summary of all new releases from this week. Coming week's preview is located on the bottom of this news post.
PlayStation2™:
Sony PSP™ (incl. UMD™ Videos):
Nintendo DS™:
Assorted:
Toys:
Video Game related Soundtracks:
A separate Video/Music update containing Japanese releases from this week, including new Anime, J-Pop and Movie releases will follow prior end of the week.
Looking forward to next week, only a total of four new releases are on schedule in Japan.
Speaking about
highlights, we will have Sunrise's simulation
Sunrise Eiyuutan 3 and Sega's soccer game
World Football Climax for PlayStation2™ as well as the Japanese version of
Metroid Prime: Hunters for NDS™.
We are further expecting the Asia version of
X-Men: The Official Game for Xbox360™ as well as the
Final Fantasy XII Original Soundtrack Limited Edition.
Access our preorder lists for further upcoming
video game,
movie and
music releases.