Shiren 3 takes 10th spot in Japanese software charts
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris, Japan. Tagged with Shiren 3.
Despite my well-documented misgivings about the Shiren series, I’m happy to see its latest release seeing some success in Japan. Chunsoft’s Shiren 3 came in at 10 in last week’s Media Create Japanese software sales charts, selling 14,000 copies and putting its total sold at about 73,000 units.
Shiren 3 saw a considerable dropoff in its chart placing from last week, though, when it secured the second spot. The game, which was the only Sega title to appear in the top 10 charts, scored an impressive 35/40 from Famitsu.
While the chances of a Western release may be slim, we’ve heard the game is more accessable in that you won’t lose all your progress if you die like in Shiren the Wanderer on the Nintendo DS. Knowing that, we’d actually like to at least play the game a few times.
[Via NeoGAF]
Sega Nerdcast 18: It Came From Japan
Posted by Chris. Filed under Chris. Tagged with Platinum Games, Sega Nerdcast, Sega Rally 3, Shiren 3.
Although we didn’t have quite as much big news to talk about as we did last week, we were still able to squeeze out enough Sega goodness to put together yet another Sega Nerdcast. In this week’s episode, we have Hudson and George joining Graham, Nathan and myself for an hour-long chat where we discuss more Platinum Games information, Shiren 3 and Sega Rally 3.
We follow that up in the second half with our second edition of Name That Tune, but the big question is will the Sega Nerds team vindicate themselves after last week’s embarrassing showing? You’ll have to listen and find out!
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