Feature: General Sales Figures in the Taiko no Tatsujin series

Here on this blog we've had multiple occasions to see the launch week figures for many Taiko no Tatsujin games that have been released during this humble blog's existence; however, have you ever wondered how most of these releases have fared on the later years in the sales spectrum?

In this feature, we're taking a look at the current situation of the software sales figures for the Taiko no Tatsujin series as a whole, by dividing the game releases to the many console families and listing both the 1st-week sales and the Life-to-Date (or LTD) figures for each boxed release.

Among the many sources that have been browsed for the data you're about to see, give our shoutouts to Media Create, VGChartz and NeoGAF user Chris1964 for the Media Create/Famitsu historical database, available at this link.

Song of the Week! 3 September 2016

Earlier this week, we've had a peculiar song suggestion by chatbox user kathy for this corner... which we're eager to spotlight today!

Across Japan (Sept 2 2016): Red ver. for Asia, Now More Official

Hope our previous sneak peek leak satisfied your hype needs! Now that the official announcement is out, let's run through what's actually slated to be up!

Firstly, while the leaked list show 47 songs making Asian debut, the official announcement confirms all of them and even tops it up to 49!... No, not the Macross Delta songs, but the SORA-I and II pair that came to Japan ver. around the February Tournament.

Also finally following the Japan system, your DonPoint accumulated total will be reset with Red ver. with fresh rewards, instead of piling on at the end of the already-massive 500k+ lines. If you haven't finished them prior you will getting as many as 12 more songs opened to you.

Aesthetic-wise, the entry screen now follows the late White ver. (after Tokkun Mode release) in asking you whether you want to change your Don-chan outfit (きせかえ) or directly go to the game (演奏ゲーム). No news about Tokkun Mode though, oh well.

The lists of new and defaulted songs can be found in Japanese in the original post (now with experimental English version!). If you want our translated and annotated list, it's after the jump.

Twitter Snippets (31 August 2016) - conflict, the "Try To Sing" version

conflict歌います。ズォールヒ～～↑ｗｗｗｗヴィヤーンタースｗｗｗｗｗワース フェスツｗｗｗｗｗｗｗルオルｗｗｗｗｗプローイユクｗｗｗｗｗｗｗダルフェ スォーイヴォーｗｗｗｗｗスウェンネｗｗｗｗヤットゥ ヴ ヒェンヴガｒジョｊ https://t.co/flpn5LahlA

— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) 31 agosto 2016

This week's most shared/liked tweet from the Taiko Team is easily surpassing the thousands and yes, there's a silly reason behind of that! Being asked by a follower to sing siromaru and Cranky's popular BMS song, the Team answered the call with the random gibberish you can see above.

Following the peculiar request, someone else asked for an impromptu singing of Donkama 2000 and, well, ... the Taiko Team answer speaks for itself, really.

何ッ！？ https://t.co/XaYS80Mi9n

— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) 31 agosto 2016

"What!?"

Apparently, though, Etou wasn't here to join the fun because "the throat got him"... But was it really needed to type the singing? I mean it's not like typing with boxing gloves on or anything

のどが かれてしまったので エトウは うたえない！

— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) 31 agosto 2016

Namco Taiko Blog (2 September 2016) - Red Version v.2.07

We already know that a new update was coming in the near future thanks to the previous livestream broadcast, but its actual release date wasn't revealed during said past event.

With today's official blog entry, we now know that this update will be launched on September 14th, bringing to the table Red Version's Dojo Ranking/Taiko School together with the new song quartet, Tokkun Mode tweaks and collaboration events in the air! In addition to that, there are a couple of details that have been added to the already-known update details:

• VICTORIA, Cranky's debut Namco Original, has been revealed to be part of the God Collection series, as Victoria was the Roman personification of victory and equal to the Greek goddess Nike.
• A couple of unlockable songs in past firmwares's Dojo Ranking mode -namely X-DAY2000 and Joubutsu 2000- will be added to the Rewards Shop in the day of the update.

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First Video: THE DAY

 THE DAY My Hero Academia (2/4/6/8, 486 notes on Oni)
Today's brand new song from the Hero Pack is the rocking opening theme by Porno Graffitti. Compared with the last new ★8 Oni debuting on 3DS3 (Battle -Denkousekka-), patterns are more simple but instead trains more on speed (186 BPM) and stamina. It starts with a singular, isolated 24th triple just like the addition coming tomorrow.

In other news, RARE HERO (now all caps) is cut to also ★8 Oni, and EZ DO DANCE kept its ★8 Oni rating from Wii5, iOS and more recently Kanjani Eight. Now would you excuse me I need to fix the words of a certain manic clown.

EDIT: We take advantage of this post to also warn you about a 3DS song title change from our part, after the jump.

Namco Taiko Blog (1 September 2016) - Tokkun Mode's New Future Features

While we're waiting for the next Red Version update's release date, the Taiko Team is using their weekly blog appointment to illustrate once again the new features that will be added to Tokkun Mode in said update.