Let’s Tap debuts with weak sales in Japan
Posted by George. Filed under George, Japan, Nintendo Wii, Sonic. Tagged with Bleach: Versus Crusade, Let's Tap, Sales, Sonic Unleashed.
Let’s Tap debuted selling only 5,400 copies . It is obvious that Sega is selling the game in the totally wrong market, there are no penguins in Japan!
The chart started on December 15th and ended on December 21st. Let’s Tap came out on the 18th, so if my math is correct (brings up a calculator) that is four days of sales counted. So is that bad?
Two other Wii games released by Sega on the 18th also include Sonic Unleashed and Bleach: Versus Crusade. The Bleach game did a modest 15,000 copies, while the blue blur sat a bit above Let’s tap with 5,800 copies. Solution? Add Bleach characters to both games, instant sales boost.
[Source NeoGaf via The Forums]
Let’s Tap shows off new screens and box art
Posted by George. Filed under George, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with Box art, Let's Tap, Screenshots, Yuji Naka.
Look at that box, it almost takes up 50% of this post. How exciting! You can also play a web version of Tap Runner here.
Hit the jump to check out new screens
[Source GameWatch via Go Nintendo]
Let’s Tap gameplay trailer
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Japan, News, Nintendo Wii, Video. Tagged with Gameplay, Let's Tap, Prope, Trailer.
Sega Japan has just released a new gameplay trailer for Let’s Tap. The trailer shows off a few of the game’s different gameplay modes.
If you don’t know, Let’s Tap is a collection of (weird) mini games, but the unique thing is that you only control the game by resting your Wiimote on a flat surface (like a box) and then tap the surface. The Wiimote picks up on the vibrations you create.
I’m really looking forward to this game, possibly out of curiosity more than anything - it all looks too crazy. The Tap Runner and the Bubble Voyager look great fun though.
[Via Siliconera]
New Let’s Tap screens
Posted by George. Filed under George, Japan, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with Let's Tap, Prope, Screenshots, Yuji Naka.
Kotaku posted these up and I don’t really recall seeing them up on here (at least not all of them). So here they are, check out the nice water effects and bright balloons.Â
Let’s Tap and Let’s Catch will come out on December 19th in Japan, no release dates for the west announced. So who is going to import this?
Hit the jump for more screens
TGS 08: Sega dominates Edge’s top 20 games at TGS
Posted by George. Filed under George, Japan, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 3. Tagged with 7th Dragon, Bleach: Versus Crusade, Infinite Space, Let's Tap, Phantasy Star 0, Phantasy Star Zero, Sonic Unleashed, TGS 08, Yakuza 3.
Sega came into TGS to do one thing, kick ass. If you see their line up, its a pretty beefy , Edge even agrees. They posted a list of the top 20 games at TGS and Sega had more games on the list than any other publisher. When was the last time you saw so many Sega games make a list?
Here are the games that made the list (only Sega games posted):
- 20. Seventh Dragon
- 19. Infinite Space
- 14. Phantasy Star 0
- 12. Sonic UnleashedÂ
- 10. Let’s TapÂ
- 05. Bleach Versus Crusade
- 02. Yakuza 3
- Â [full list!]
Surprises? Mine was that Bleach: Versus Crusade broke into the top 5 and that Bayonetta wasn’t mentioned. I can see Yakuza 3 getting second to Resident Evil 5, due to the fact that Resident Evil 5 playable. What do you guys think?
TGS 08: Kotaku get hands-on with Let’s Tap
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, Japan, News, Nintendo Wii, Video. Tagged with Hands on, Let's Tap, Prope, TGS 08.
It may have only been officially revealed a week or so ago, but the game has made it’s debut this year’s Tokyo Game Show and the Kotaku boys have given us their first impressions of the game, with one of the mini-games, “Tap Runner.”
Turns out the Wii remote is surprisingly sensitive at picking up these little taps. Get a bit too excited and you may accidentally jump. But you can also control the height of your jump by smacking the box with varying degrees of intensity.
“Tap Runner” isn’t much more than a track and field style event, full of pits, hurdles, jump pads and electrified orbs. It’s disarmingly fun and up to four players can compete head to head in a series of races (GameSpot’s Brian Ekberg and I ran a quick trio of minute-long sprints.)
The game has a nice graphical style, with “Tap Runner” having a bit of Tron aesthetic.
Check out the rest of their impressions, here.
[Source: Kotaku]
[Image from Kotaku]
First gameplay footage of Let’s Tap
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News, Nintendo Wii, Video. Tagged with Gameplay, Let's Tap, Prope, Trailer.
Earlier we reported on Prope’s new title, Let’s Tap. The first couple of screens wesaw were pretty blurred and it was hard to tell just what was going on. Then we very quickly got our hands on some much better screenshots of the game, and it became pretty clear that it would be a set of mini-games.Â
But we still didn’t have confirmation on how the game was to be played or why it is called “Let’s Tap.“Â Now, with this video, some of our questions have been answered.
[Updated] Prope’s new game called “Let’s Tap”
Posted by George. Filed under George, News, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with Let's Tap, Prope.
We already knew that penguins could play it, people even said it was a rythmn game. But today at Nintendo’s fall confrence they spilled the name of the new Prope game, called Let’s Tap. Its being called the first “Wiimote free” game. I’m assuming you play with the balance board?
The image above is the game running, I don’t know what to make of it. Any guesses on how this game will play? The game looks like it could be a Wiiware game.
[Update] We have some much better screens for you now, which shed a little more light on the game. After the break.