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Jump! Ultimate Stars
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«©NCSX»
Akin to eggs and milk, games generally have short
shelf lives. In NCS' experience, if a game doesn't
sell well in the first 2 weeks of release, we can
expect the inventory to sit in our warehouse for 5-6
years before the stock dwindles down to more
manageable levels. Sadly, some
games sit in
warehousing for nearly 15 years without any signs of
depletion.
The majority of
new game releases don't sell well. There, we said
it. In addition to our surfeit of old stock, we've
seen associate warehouses brimming with old games
that might go into a landfill in Alamogordo, New
Mexico one of these days... Then there are the
superstars. Games that sell well week after week,
month after month... chugging along and defying all
original sales projections. Jump Superstars is one
of those games. Despite being over a year old, the
game trounces all other NDS releases in terms of
sales volume on a weekly basis.
With that out of the way, NCS
opens up preorders for Jump! Ultimate Sars which is
scheduled to arrive on or around November 21. New
series' fighters join some of the old series'
fighters and bout it out in a battle royale of
stylus poking fever. Popular characters from Dragon
Ball Z, Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach are joined by
somewhat less familiar heroes from Rurouni Kenshin,
Dr. Slump, Hunter X Hunter, Jojo's Bizarre
Adventure, and many more for a total of over 300
fighters in all. To add extra challenge to the
fighting, developer Ganbarion includes Wi-Fi battle
functionality to ensure that one is never in want of
a competitor.
Distributors mention that Jump! Ultimate Stars will include a
preorder bonus. Perhaps it's another
booklet.
Per our usual preorder allocations, NCS expects a
1:2 ratio of bonus to game for Ultimate Stars. As
such, early preorders will receive the bonus. |
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