14 DAY TRIAL // Japanese video game developer and publisher Bandai Namco has announced that Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation has scored more than one million downloads in Japan.
Mechas are much more popular on the Japanese islands than they are anywhere else, granted, but it's still an impressive feat for the PlayStation 3 exclusive free to play multiplayer game.
It's still got a way to go before beating Tekken Revolution, another free to play PlayStation 3 game, but the fighting title has also benefited from a worldwide launch, as opposed to the domestic Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation.
The game features tactical battles between teams of four to six members on each side, and each player chooses a Mobile Suit from one of the game's three categories, that are designed to have a rock-paper-scissors dynamic, each one of them being strong against one of the remaining two types and weak against the other.
And the intriguing part is that the majority of its players are "dudes in their 30s and 40s," as Siliconera reports.
Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation has also been released in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in March 2013, but there is currently no word regarding a potential western release of the multiplayer team action game.