News: Kabutore (DS) release

December 13, 2006, 04:33 AM

by ollie, via Konami -
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Kabushiki Baibai Trainer Kabutore, Hideo Kojima's latest game on the DS is released tomorrow for 4,179 yen. For those that haven't been following this, Kojima has ventured into the world of training games and created a stock market simulator. Yes, that's right, you can buy and sell stocks on a virtual Tokyo Stock Exchange. The game uses market data collected from the past five years too, so it's fairly grounded in terms of functionality (no crazy codec nonsense here I'm afraid).

In all fairness, this is a shrewd move for Kojima. The fad for training games in Japan is at its peak and everyone wants to make a wad of cash on the stock market.