Soul Calibur V, the latest installment from
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was outsold at retail by Capcom's 3DS game Resident Evil: Revelations.Soul
Calibur V's PS3 version was the second best-selling game of the week after
moving 34,786 copies, according to Japan's Media Create. That's less than half
of the 74,607 Soul Calibur IV for PS3 sold in its 2008 debut week. The Xbox 360
version fared even worse: 7,
for SCV compared to 34,786 for SCIV.The top selling game overall was Capcom's Resident Evil: Revelations for the 3DS, now in its second week on the market.
Sony's new PS Vita handheld continues to
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immediate horizon, selling 17,141 units during the week, only a tick more than
the 15,847 its predecessor, the PSP, sold, and well shy of the 75,018 units of
Nintendo's red hot 3DS that got into players' hands last week. Vita sales were
helped slightly by the debut of
Ragnarok Odyssey, which sold 33,496 units thanks in part to a strong downloadable demo.Ragnorak Odyssey's sales maintain a PS Vita presence in the
top ten software sales chart, as Namco Bandai's Tales of Innocence R, a port of
a four-year-old DS RPG, has already fallen off that list from its number one
debut last week.It should be noted that Media Create only tracks physical retail
sales. Digital sales of Vita games, which are available day-and-date with their
retail counterparts, are not provided by Sony.
Gamebase will preview Gamebryo 4.0, the latest version of its 3D game engine that promises improvements in efficiency and ease of use, at March's Game
Developers Conference.The company said it combined the strengths of its two
engines, Gamebryo and LightSpeed, with the goal of providing a simplistic and
efficient game creation environment that can still provide high quality graphics
without sacrificing frame rates.In order to make Gamebryo 4.0 a more simplified,
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