First week sales: P4U2

Media Create, the well-known Japanese console game market researcher, revealed today that the PS3 version of Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold has sold 89,468 copies in its first week.

As always, we have chart so you can compare.

First week sales of fighting games between 2008-2014 in Japan by Media Create

1. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) {2009.12.18} - 489,100 / NEW
2. [PS3] JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.08.29} - 425,718 / NEW
3. [PSP] Dissidia: 012 (Duodecim) Final Fantasy (Square Enix) {2011.03.03} - 286,117 / NEW
4. [PS3] Persona 4: Arena (Atlus) {2012.07.26} - 128,485 / NEW
5. [PS3] J-Stars Victory Vs (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.03.19} - 118,240 / NEW
6. [PS3] Tekken 6 (Namco Bandai) {2009.10.29} - 103,105 / NEW
7. [PSV] J-Stars Victory Vs (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.03.19} - 97,821 / NEW
8. [PS3] Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold (Atlus) {2014.08.28} - 89,468 / NEW
9. [PS3] Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm 3 (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.04.18} - 87,661 / NEW
10. [PS3] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) {2009.02.12} - 86,000 / NEW
11. [PS2] Fate/Unlimited Codes (Capcom) {2008.12.18} - 82,900 | NEW
12. [PS3] Super Street Fighter IV (Capcom) {2010.04.28} - 80,882 / NEW
13. [PSP] Naruto: Shippuden Narutimate Accel 3 (Namco Bandai) {2009.12.10} - 76,596 / NEW
14. [PSP] Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces (Namco Bandai) {2010.01.21} - 76,088 / NEW
15. [PS3] Soul Calibur IV (Namco Bandai Games) {2008.07.31} - 74,607 / NEW
16. [PS3] BlazBlue: Chronophantasma (Arc System Works) {2013.10.24} - 72,464 / NEW
17. [PS3] Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (Capcom) {2011.02.17} - 67,187 / NEW
18. [PS3] Dead or Alive 5 (Koei Tecmo) {2012.09.27} - 66,586 / NEW
19. [PS3] Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm Generation (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.02.23} - 65,758 / NEW
20. [PS3] Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm 2 (Bandai Namco) {2010.10.21} - 63,675 / NEW
21. [PS3] Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.09.13} - 62,630 / NEW
22. [PS3] Street Fighter X Tekken (Capcom) {2012.03.08} - 58,471 / NEW
23. [PS3] Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (Namco Bandai) {2009.11.09} - 57,972 / NEW
24. [PSP] Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny (Bandai Namco) {2011.12.22} - 57,320 / NEW
25. [PS3] Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (Capcom) {2011.06.30} - 54,924 / NEW
26. [PSP] Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Impact (Bandai Namco Games) {2011.10.20} - 53,148 / NEW
27. [PS3] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Arc System Works) {2010.07.01} - 49,871 / NEW
28. [PS3] Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 (Bandai Namco) {2010.11.11} - 47.610 / NEW
29. [3DS] Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition (Capcom) {2011.02.26} - 44,649 / NEW
30. [PS3] Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (Bandai Namco Games) {2011.12.08} - 44,593 / NEW
31. [PS2] Melty Blood: Actress Again (Ecole Software) {2009.08.20} - 44,292 / NEW
32. [PS3] Naruto: Narutimate Storm (Namco Bandai) {2009.01.15} - 44,065 / NEW
33. [PS3] Ultra Street Fighter IV (Capcom) {2014.08.07} - 42,327 / NEW
34. [360] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) {2009.02.12} - 38,000 / NEW
35. [360] Soul Calibur IV (Namco Bandai Games) {2008.07.31} - 34,786 / NEW
36. [PS3] Soul Calibur V (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.02.02} - 34,328 / NEW
37. [PSP] Fate/Unlimited Codes Portable (Capcom) {2009.06.18} - 34,205 / NEW
38. [PS3] BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (Arc System Works) {2009.06.25} - 33,768 / NEW
39. [PS3] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (Arc System Works) {2011.12.17} - 32,992 / NEW
40. [PS3] Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.01.23} - 30,192 / NEW
41. [PS3] Saint Seiya: Brave Soldiers (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.10.17} - 29,314 / NEW
42. [360] Super Street Fighter IV (Capcom) {2010.04.28} - 28,454 / NEW
43. [PSP] Tekken 6 (Namco Bandai) {2010.01.14} - 25,131 / NEW
44. [360] BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (Arc System Works) {2009.06.25} - 24,812 / NEW
45. [WII] Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes (Capcom) {2008.12.11} - 24,100 / NEW
46. [PSP] BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II (Arc System Works) {2011.03.31} - 23,808 / NEW
47. [3DS] Dead or Alive: Dimensions (Koei Tecmo) {2011.05.19} - 23,078 / NEW
48. [PSV] Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z (Bandai Namco Games) {2014.01.23} - 22,901 / NEW
49. [PS3] Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 (Capcom) {2011.11.17} - 22,436 / NEW
50. [PS3] The King of Fighters XIII (SNK Playmore) {2011.12.01} - 21,525 / NEW
51. [PS3] AQUAPAZZA (Aquaplus) {2012.08.30} - 20,935 / NEW
52. [PSP] Dragon Ball Z: Tenkaichi Tag Team (Bandai Namco) {2010.09.30} - 19,080 / NEW
53. [PS3] Dead or Alive 5: Ultimate (Koei Tecmo) {2013.09.05} - 18,608 / NEW
54. [PS3] Arcana Heart 3 (Arc System Works) {2011.01.13} - 17,219 / NEW
55. [360] Dead or Alive 5 (Koei Tecmo) {2012.09.27} - 14,811 / NEW
56. [360] Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (Capcom) {2011.02.17} - 13,779 / NEW
57. [PSV] Dead or Alive 5+ (Koei Tecmo) {2013.03.20} - 13,291 / NEW
58. [360] Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (Capcom) {2011.06.30} - 12,326 / NEW
59. [PS3] Darkstalkers Resurrection (Capcom) {2013.03.14} - 11,591 / NEW
60. [PSV] BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma (Arc System Works) {2014.04.24} - 10,709 / NEW
61. [360] Phantom Breaker (5pb.) {2011.06.02} - 9,960 / NEW
62. [360] Persona 4: Arena (Atlus) {2012.07.26} - 9,801 / NEW
63. [3DS] Tekken 3D: Prime Edition (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.02.16} - 9,421 / NEW
64. [PS3] Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late (Arc System Works) {2014.07.24} - 9,171 / NEW
65. [360] Street Fighter X Tekken (Capcom) {2012.03.08} - 8,527 / NEW
66. [360] Soul Calibur V (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.02.02} - 7,679 / NEW
67. [PSP] Saint Seiya Ω: Ultimate Cosmo (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} - 6,448 / NEW
68. [PS3] Arcana Heart 3: Love Max!!!!! (Arc System Works) {2014.05.29} - 6,273 / NEW
69. [PSV] Street Fighter X Tekken (Capcom) {2012.10.25} - 5,420 / NEW
70. [360] Dead or Alive 5: Ultimate (Koei Tecmo) {2013.09.05} - 4,862 / NEW
71. [PS3] Shin Koihime Musou: Otome Taisen Sangokushi Engi {2014.02.20} - 4,794 / NEW
72. [PS3] Phantom Breaker: Extra (5pb.) {2013.09.19} - 3,102 / NEW

Shining Resonance box art shows mysterious character

The box art of Shining Resonance is revealed today. But the most important thing is the new silver-haired female character that is showed along side the heroes on the right.

Our speculation is she is the queen of the empire who is voiced by Nana Mizuki.

Shining Resonance will be released on December 11. Sonia is expected to be playable in Beast Note's most anticipated fighting game Blade Arcus.

New TOPANGA online tournament revealed, stream planned

It's revealed today that TOPANGA will hold an USF4 online tournament on September 6 (starting 14:00 JST). Two rounds (afternoon and evening) of 64-man tournament are planned. Niconico will be streaming free of charge.

Win trip to Evo 2015 in MCZ's TGS tournament

It's announced today that MadCatz's 64-man USF4 tournament at Tokyo Game Show 2014 on September 21 will award a trip to Evolution 2015 to the winner.

Daigo Umehara already confirmed for this tournament.

New Shining Resonance info

From Famitsu.

Opening chapter

• Sonia, princess of Astria, breaks into the prison to rescue Yuma from the empire.
• Since Astria is at war with the empire, it needs to befriend with the dragon in order to gain momentum.
• At the prison, Sonia's small team found Yuma, but they need to find the way out.
• Kirika protects Sonia and creates diversion.
• Imprisoned for so long, Yuma lost willpower. But after seeing two brave women, he intends to fight the empire again.

Marion

• Her class is Magic Cannon Knight.
• Her weapon is Divine Cannon.
• She excels in healing magic and supportive magic.
• "Purge target lock on.... divine punishment enforcing. That dragon soul, let me offer it to the god."
• She was secretly created by the church as experimental bio weapon. She carries on her task with cold expression.
• It seems her demon eye (left eye) allows her to use magic-operated heavy weapon at will.
• She looks young but possesses superhuman strength.
• She's under Joachim's mind control, and suffers dissociative identity disorder. She can switch between Marion and Eto.
• She first met Yuma when he was captured.

Joachim

• His title is the Alchemist of Judgment.
• His class is Dark Priest.
• He excels in dark magic.
• His weapon is blade called Psycholops (Cyclops).
• "Your sinful body, let me recreate as divine creation."
• He leads the study of ancient magic. He's also master of biology and medicine.
• He's interested in nothing but experiments.
• Several bio weapons were created from the study of dragon power, starting from Marion.
• Because Marion is his best creation, he's strongly attached to her.

B.A.N.D. system

• BAND requires at least one bar of Party Gauge to activate. Gauge then gradually depletes to zero where effect wears off.
• Even in the same Rune Song, the effect can change accordingly the "Center" of the BAND.
• Kirika as Center in Rune Song of Spring will provide damage reduction and bad status effect immunity.
• Lesty as Center in Rune Song of Spring will provide damage reduction and boost guard effect.
• Agnum as Center in Rune Song of Spring will greatly boost evasion.
• Kirika will sing as Center, but will play her Armonix bow when non-Center.

Shining Resonance will be released on December 11. Sonia is expected to be playable in Beast Note's most anticipated fighting game Blade Arcus.

Umehara interview on Careeful

A employment website Careeful recently posted an interview with Daigo Umehara.

[Video] Blade Arcus (location test build 2) gameplay from JGL

Blade Arcus was introduced shortly during Japan Gamer's Live (JGL) event on August 31. This's location test build 2. It's played by an MC and random people so don't expect any high-level play.

New thing we see so far in these videos is Fenrir's assist can inflict Poison status to opponent.