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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Has Crossed 1 Million Sales

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May 222024
 

I finished The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles with a glowing review of the second game over two years ago, and I’ve been talking about it ever since.

Ace Attorney is my favorite series, and The Great Ace Attorney 2 rose up above the rest to become my favorite game. I love it.

So I’ve been thrilled to see The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles receive the praise and success that it deserves, especially since that should mean a bright future for the series overall.

Now it’s crossed another milestone that shows just how popular it is.

Capcom keeps track of what they refer to as “Platinum Titles,” releases that have sold at least 1 million copies. Well, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles just got onto the list.

While 1 million sales might not seem huge compared to Capcom’s bigger series, it’s incredible for a series like Ace Attorney. For reference, the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy (the 2019 collection, specifically) is at 3.3 million sales. The series as a whole (which includes every Ace Attorney release, re-release, and collection) has seen a total of 11 million sales.

So for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles to cross 1 million within 3 years, that means it’s really doing well.

As we discussed last year when I explained why I have high hopes for Ace Attorney’s future, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles was allegedly only projected to sell 300k copies by 2025. Now it’s crossed 1 million and we’re still only in 2024. It’s amazing (and well-deserved).

(Other claims say it was projected to hit 650k sales by 2025, but even if that’s true, it’s still beaten that by a wide margin.)

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – Ace Attorney is doing better than ever. I’ve got my fingers crossed for a new game announcement this year, but even if that doesn’t happen, I’m confident that it’s coming.

While I believe Ace Attorney 7 will be the next game in the series, and probably an Investigations duology bundle next after that, news like this makes me think our chances of getting another Great Ace Attorney game are rising as well. Capcom asked in a survey if fans would want another Great Ace Attorney game, and it’s clearly a success. Personally, I want a Great Ace Attorney Investigations more than anything, but I’d be delighted by any announcement!

Edgeworth Wins Yet Another Official Popularity Poll

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Mar 292024
 

There’s a lot we could be talking about right now – Uchikoshi’s cryptic tweets, Corpse Party II localization, Cupid Parasite fandisc release date, Reynatis gameplay footage – but let’s talk about Miles Edgeworth instead.

Around a month ago, Capcom opened an Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy popularity poll. Fans were asked to vote for their favorite character from the Apollo Justice Trilogy, and the top 3 characters would be featured in new artwork.

Well, the results are in… and the #1 most popular character in the Apollo Justice Trilogy is Miles Edgeworth!

Phoenix Wright (Apollo Justice version) and Apollo Justice himself came in 2nd and 3rd place respectively, so art director Takuro Fuse released a beautiful new piece of artwork featuring the three of them together.

Also ranking in the top 10 were Trucy Wright, Klavier Gavin, Simon Blackquill, Phoenix Wright (Dual Destinies/Spirit of Justice version), Maya Fey, Athena Cykes, and Ema Skye. I’m satisfied with Blackquill ranking #6, if surprised that he lost to Klavier, and pleased to see Athena in the top 10.

But while Phoenix managed to rank in the top 10 twice, the most impressive thing here is that Edgeworth took the #1 spot. (Although who knows, maybe Phoenix would have won if he wasn’t counted as two separate characters.) I love Edgeworth, but he barely qualifies as an Apollo Justice Trilogy character. Of the 16 cases in the Apollo Justice Trilogy, I believe he only appears in 3.

This follows in the footsteps of last year’s poll about which character you’d want to defend you, which Edgeworth won despite being a prosecutor for the majority of his appearances.

It would seem Edgeworth is so popular that he can win any Ace Attorney popularity poll he technically qualifies for. If Capcom wasn’t planning to remaster Investigations, I’d bet they’re considering it now. Speaking of which, if you’ve been keeping track of Capcom acknowledging Investigations 2, Fuse’s message about the new artwork mentions that Edgeworth in his vest “has not been shown since the opening of Ace Attorney Investigations 2.”

Look, I still believe a new Ace Attorney game should and will come first, but a remaster of Investigations & Investigations 2 feels more likely than ever now… because if Edgeworth really is this popular, it’ll fly off the shelves.

The Day Capcom Accidentally Stirred Up Ace Attorney Fans for No Reason

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Mar 222024
 

You know how sometimes we talk about little things Capcom does and hope it might be a hint of upcoming Ace Attorney news?

This is not one of those posts.

Actually, this post is the exact opposite.

Everyone got stirred up yesterday over what turned out to be a mistake… and since people keep seeing the original stir and think something’s happening, I decided to write about it.

Ever since the release of the Apollo Justice Trilogy, the official Ace Attorney Twitter account has been holding a weekly “book club” where they discuss one of its cases. They’re up to The Cosmic Turnabout now, and so yesterday they tweeted their Cosmic Turnabout book club post.

Except they forgot to include the text of the tweet. They just tweeted a screenshot of the Earth with no explanation.

This being a particularly context-free screenshot, it was not easy to immediately recognize as being from The Cosmic Turnabout. It appeared to be the official Ace Attorney Twitter account tweeting something new. So like the time when they changed their social media icons, the replies were immediately flooded with people asking if it was a hint of something.

Some people took it as a hint of an Ace Attorney 7 announcement, some took it as a hint that Investigations 2 was going to be localized, and only a handful said, “Wait, isn’t that from Dual Destinies?”

Capcom deleted the original tweet and followed up with the correct one, which now has the book club text, and the incident was forgotten. Or not, since as I mentioned at the start, some people have just seen the chaos without the resolution.

So no, Capcom did not hint at Ace Attorney news yesterday. It was not a sign of Ace Attorney in space. It was not a sign of Ace Attorney 7 having a new setting. It was not a sign of Investigations 2 coming to the whole world. But if nothing else, I hope the reactions showed them how much demand there is for a new Ace Attorney game.

(Unless that was the plan all along? Tweet an out-of-context screenshot to test how much excitement there would be? Nah… now I’m the one overthinking it.)

If you haven’t noticed, I’m desperate for Ace Attorney news once again. I never did that Apollo Justice Trilogy replay once the unlockable art was revealed, though, so maybe I should… while I wait for actual news to come.

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