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KanColle Kai PS Vita Game Sales End After January 2017
posted on by Karen Ressler
Kadokawa Games announced on Thursday that it will cease shipping the package edition of its PlayStation Vita game KanColle Kai at the end of January, after which time the game will only be available until stores run out of stock. In addition, it is also closing downloads of the digital edition on the PlayStation Store at the end of January.
Those who have already purchased the game digitally will still be able to play and redownload the game after sales close.
The game was originally scheduled for release in 2014, but experienced multiple delays before it was released in Japan on February 18, 2016. The game sold more than 200,000 copies within its first three weeks.
Kadokawa Games launched the original free-to-play browser game with the service provider DMM.com in April 2013. In the game, players compete with cards featuring female moe characters inspired by World War II combat and utility vessels such as aircraft carriers, submarines, battleships, and cruisers. Players build, organize, and repair their anthropomorphized fleet to progress through maps. The game includes characters based on ships from the Imperial Japanese Navy, the German Kriegsmarine, and Italy's Regia Marina.
The original game inspired a television anime adaptation that premiered in January 2015. The final episode of the television anime series had revealed in March that the television anime would get a sequel. An anime film opened in Japan on November 26.
[Via Siliconera]
