Sony PS3 Japanese Exclusive Preview

The Japanese PS3 owners has it good. The Japanese PSN store has about double the content of the US PSN Store. So I decided to do a little research and see what we will be missing here in the states.

Some of these games may never see the light of day here in the states, but being that the Sony PS3 is region free my friends we have absolutely nothing to worry about.

Japanese Exclusives after the jump.


Warriors Orochi Z

Warriors Orochi Z, known in Japan as Musō Orochi Z, is a 2009 hack and slash video game developed by Koei and Omega Force for the Sony PlayStation 3. WOZ is the third installment of the Warriors Orochi series, a crossover video game of the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series. Warriors Orochi Z is set to be a combination of the first two games with more characters and stages on an updated gaming platform. The game will be released in Japan on March 12, 2009. Whether or not the game will be released in North America and Europe is currently unknown. No further details about the game have been revealed yet.



Release date(s) JP March 12, 2009

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

Before the events of BlazBlue, humanity was on the the verge of extinction from the "Black Beast", a creature of Darkness. Hope came in the form of six heroes who wielded the power of magic. Together, the six heroes & humanity created "Armagus" a combination of Magic & Technology to defeat the Beast, which would be known as The First War of Magic.













Release Date JP Winter 2009


Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2

Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2 is the upcoming sequel to the game Steambot Chronicles (Bumpy Trot). It was officially announced that there would be a sequel on September 2006, at the Tokyo Game Show. It is currently in development by Irem Software Engineering.






Dark Cloud 3

Is a action role-playing game that is being developed by Level 5 exclusively for the PlayStation 3. It is expected to launch in Japan "around March 2009".


Ryū ga Gotoku 3

Is the fourth installment in the Yakuza video game series, developed and published by Sega. The game will be released in Japan on February 26, 2009, for the PlayStation 3 video game console. Unlike Ryū ga Gotoku Kenzan!, which was a spinoff, this latest installment will continue the adventures of Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza and Yakuza 2. The game will take place both in fictional Kamuro-cho from the first two games and in Okinawa.