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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 games tear up the Japanese chart

This week's media create chart is full of good news for the Vita, in a mad week with the first 13 games all being new entries. The Vita's best showing is Sword Art Online Lost Song selling 139K, One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 only 53K, Pro Yakyuu Spirit Baseball 2015 and Senran Kagura Estival Versus doing around 45K each at retail. Minecraft has a fine second week as a boxed product.

Threatrhythm Dragon Quest is the only 3DS game in a rare twist, but according to this teaser site, the Vita might be getting a Dragon Quest Heroes sequel soon.

1 Bloodborne (Sony) 152,657 PS4
2 Sword Art Online Lost Song (Bandai) 139,298 Vita
3 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (Bandai) 97,362 PS3
4 Threatrhythm Dragon Quest (Square) 76,858 3DS
5 Professional Baseball Spirits 2015 (Konami) 62,197 PS3
6 Sword Art Online Lost Song (Bandai) 55,090 PS3
7 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 54,308 Vita
8 One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 46,693 PS4
9 Professional Baseball Spirits 2015 (Konami) 46,326 Vita
10 Senran Kagura Estival Versus (Marvelous) 44,584 Vita
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14 Minecraft (Sony) 21,069 Vita
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18 Digimon Cyber Story (Bandai) 13,365 Vita

We already knew Senran had sold over 100K, according to the company including digital sales, so the real question was how much hardware could Sony shift in response. That answer is only 27,000 units which while still pretty good in the state of the market, suggest Sony can't rely on these serial games to drive sales in future.


That's also compared to 31K in 2013 and 41K in 2014 for this week, which is all the more worrying. On the plus side, its still trouncing the New 3DS LL, but the PS4 has a firm and regular need now in Japan. Not all is well in PS4 land, Disgaea 5 turned up at the bottom of the chart, so expect a Vita version to help make up the numbers at some point.

Last week's numbers

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