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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Majesco proudly announces that the mini-game powered Cooking Mama series has sold more than 4 million units domestically. How else would a cooking franchise sell?
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While Taito’s offerings aren’t the stuff of attention grabbing headlines and long queues, it has a few tricks up its sleeve; Gardening Mama for the Nintendo DS for one, giving “Mama” something to occupy her time between meals in Cooking Mama 2 for the Wii. There’s also Space Puzzle Bobble, which you’ll find me hunched over at the Makuhari Messe this year.
Get excited… on a very small scale.
Taito TGS 2008 [Taito via DS Fanboy]
Cooking Mama is a hit. Not just the gamer, either; Mama herself is a bonafide gaming starlet. So it’s with little surprise that we hear Majesco are taking the short-tempered lass out of the kitchen and throwing her in the garden for another Mama series, with Gardening Mama due for release on the DS at the end of the year (in Japan, at any rate). Mama’s fiery temper was a perfect fit for the kitchen in these Gordon Ramsey-heavy times, but gardening’s always been a more relaxing pursuit. Wonder how she’s going to adjust.
First there was Cooking Mama, now there’s Gardening Mama? [Pocketgamer]
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A mantra that should cause the clucking of tongues and the rolling of eyes! But no. This isn’t some skateboarding series. It’s no annually-updated football franchise. It’s Cooking Mama! So it’s with delight that we learn Majesco will be releasing a new Cooking Mama title this year, and an all-new one to boot. Called Cooking Mama World Kitchen, it’s for the Wii, and aside from an entirely appropriate (and welcome) graphical upgrade, we’re promised new minigame opportunities (“if you flip a burger too high, you can control Mama as she rushes in to save the day by catching it in her apron”) and better motion control implementation. It should be out this holidays. Presser and NSFW screen after the jump.
Majesco has done pretty well in North America with the Cooking Mama franchise. Between their three titles on the market (2 for the DS, 1 for Wii), they’ve sold 1.6 million copies here. But the larger stats freaks among you will note that the original Cooking Mama DS sold over a million copies—or roughly 2/3 of the total sales from 3 games. So it doesn’t feel like much of a stretch saying that the series’ popularity may have peaked.
