Friday's News Bits

2,100,000 copies shipped in the first 3 days of Dragon Quest VII's release, and have probably been sold by now. Faithful to its tradition, the new DQ title was heralded by mass excitement and huge lines in front of stores at its release. Check out these photos from Geisen.com, they speak for themselves:

The first screen shots of Grandia: Parallel Trippers have finally been revealed. Although the story is supposed to focus on three new characters, it seems that most of the cast of Grandia will be there as well. Check out these two pics, which show evidence of the presence of at least Sue, Guido and Liete.

Bandai has just revealed their upcoming WonderSwan Color (tentative name), and, as previously rumored, one of the launch titles is none other than Final Fantasy! These early pictures show the title has been greatly improved in terms of graphics. The WonderSwan Color is expected to hit Japanese retailers next December.

And, as usual, though a little late this time, here are last week's (August 14th - August 20th) game sales figures. Prepare for the DQ7 tidal wave next time!

Rank (Prev. rank)	Syst.	Title	Developer	Release date	Sales of week (Total sales)
1 (1)	N64	Mario Story	Nintendo	08/11/00	135,486 (411,798)
6 (10)	PS	Final Fantasy IX	Square	07/07/00	24,571 (2,499,183)
10 (6)	DC	Grandia II	Game Arts	08/03/00	15,175 (243,544)
12 (16)	PS	Digimon World 2	Bandai	07/27/00	13,700 (126,073)
23 (18)	GBC	Sakura Taisen GB	Media Factory	07/27/00	7,324 (88,934)
24 (20)	GBC	Zoid, Resurrection of the Evil God - Genobreaker chapter	Tommy	08/10/00	7,021 (51,005)
25 (26)	GBC	Love Hina Pocket	Marvelous Entertainment	08/03/00	6,847 (55,318)
30 (-)	WS	Digimon Adventure 2: Tag Tamers	Bandai	08/03/00	6,277 (35,083)

(Note: these figures may be slightly inconsistent with last week's due to a change of source).

Source(s):

Geisen GameJapan The Magic Box

Date Updated:
September 1st, 2000

Time Updated:
4:59 PM

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