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Demon Gaze and Monster Monpiece sell out in Japan

The Demon Gaze website has a typically polite, but browser untranslatable, notice apologising for the game selling out of copies in Japan. Which begs the question, did they not produce enough or have sales gone bananas to produce a game that could threaten the other Vita big sellers, all three of them.


A similar notice for Compile Heart's Monster Monpiece (which does translate) says they shipped 27,000 copies and have also sold out. You'd hope that Demon Gaze would have launched with many more copies, but if this is the general state of Vita launches then it won't be threatening any best seller lists anytime soon.

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