Inazuma Eleven 3 Nintendo DS Advert

Level-5 has released the first TV advert for Inazuma Eleven 3 on Nintendo DS. The immensely popular football RPG series from the Japanese developer, most famous nowadays for its Professor Layton titles, has employed one of the Japanese national football stars to help promote the new RPG and ensure that it sells at least as well as the second game, which is still in the current Media Create Top 50 software chart and has sold over 1.2 million copies so far. In an effort to hit such highs once more, Akihiro Hino has announced that the first shipment of Inazuma Eleven 3: Challenge to the World SPARK/BOMBER will be 920,000 units at the beginning of July.

Check out the advert below:

In other Level-5 news, the Studio Ghibli Nintendo DS RPG joint project, Ni no Kuni: The Another World has not only been renamed as Ni no Kuni: Shikkoku no Madoushi and will now be released in Japan on 9th December, 2010, but there will also be a PlayStation 3 version hitting in 2011 called Ni no Kuni: Shiroki Seihai no Joou that will be based around a similar story arc, but will differ in several ways.

Clearly Level-5 has plans to turn this into a large franchise, since there are also small mobile phone episodes of the game due for release.

Can Inazuma Eleven 3 prove to be as strong as the previous games, despite arriving only around 7 months after the second title? Also, should Ni no Kuni have come to Wii instead of PS3?