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Saros delivers Returnal 2 in all but name

Housemarque's Returnal remains one of the best PS5 games. Built to kill, raised to die, and fine-tuned to annoy the shit out me while dragging me back in for yet another go at  2AM.  Not-a-sequel Saros ropes in my one of my favourite actors Rahul Kohli into the mix with proper shields, greater weapons freedom, Indian-styled visuals, and borrowing  Xenon 2: Megablast's palette and violence.  Saros is set on Carcosa, a shape-shifting, hostile alien planet. It changes on every death, where a total eclipse changes everything (very Pitch Black!). The video shows the first biome, hopefully the others shift up the palette more than Returnal did.  Along his journey he finds Nitya Chandran (Shunori Ramanthan), adding some depth to the Returnal-mayhem. The stunning environment Arjun explores is that of a lost ancient civilization fueled by the twisted enlightenment of the eclipse.  Saros lands in March 2026, check out the PlayStation blog post for more details on w...

Vita sales stay strong in Japan

Vita sales in Japan dropped 6,000 from last week, but held on to respectable numbers, selling 23,300 this week. That's as Samurai Warriors Chronicles 3 launched and Phantasy Star Nova continued to sell in the Media Create chart. Borderlands 2 is clinging to the bottom of the Famitsu chart at 30, having sold 4,500.

To highlight Sony's plight in Japan, three new PS4 games launched and only sold an average of 10K each. So the Vita remains pretty much the lead platform there, but so few new games are coming out in 2015, that the situation could stagnate. As it is, the Vita, should sell around 1.1 million in Japan this year, pretty much matching last year, while the 3DS is down 2 million sales on 2013, but still miles ahead at 2.75 million for the year.

To alarm things further NIS made a statement recently that Disgaea 5 (out next March on PS4 in Japan) needs to sell at least 150,000 for the company to keep going. If they go down, that's a lot less Vita games to come west from one of the format's best supporters. Perhaps a rapid Vita conversion is on the cards?



09./00. [PSV] Samurai Warriors: Chronicles 3 # (Koei Tecmo) - 22.152 / NEW 
10./02. [PSV] Phantasy Star Nova (Sega) - 19.833 / 127.147 (-82%)
30./00. [PSV] Borderlands 2 (Take 2) - 4,500 (Famitsu chart) 

 This week's releases in Japan include Soul Sacrifice Delta on budget and Earth Defense Portable V2, with Gundam Breaker 2 out next week to cap off the year. 

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