Kojima brings the Japanese stock market to your DS with Kabutore

Hideo Kojima has decided to pull something out of his bag of magic tricks yet again as he has announced at the Tokyo Game Show that he is developing a game for the Nintendo DS which is about, of all things, dealing in the Japanese Stock Market. This is a complete alien among the usual line-up of Kojima Productions titles, and is quite a strange sight when place side-by-side with the likes of the Metal Gear Solid games, as well as other RPG titles such as Lunar Knights.

With its full title of Kabushiki Baibai Trainer Kabutore (loosely translated as Stock Transaction Trainer Kabutore), or Kabutore for short, Kojima seems to be aiming on joining the “training game” trend for games on the DS. Using real Tokyo Stock Exchange information from the last five years, the game practically teaches the player the basics of the stock market where they will learn to trade and study the ups and downs of the business world. For people who have never gone anywhere near stocks before, there will be a lecture and story mode which will act as the tutorial. For those with more business suave, then they can play the market as much as they want on expert mode, which lets the game function as a market simulator.

Though a release date has not yet been announced, this game seems like the type that would only be released locally, though there is always the possibility that a U.S. or European version can be made in the future.

More Kabutore screenshots after the jump!

Hideo Kojima has decided to pull something out of his bag of magic tricks yet again as he has announced at the Tokyo Game Show that he is developing a game for the Nintendo DS which is about, of all things, dealing in the Japanese Stock Market. This is a complete alien among the usual line-up of Kojima Productions titles, and is quite a strange sight when place side-by-side with the likes of the Metal Gear Solid games, as well as other RPG titles such as Lunar Knights.

With its full title of Kabushiki Baibai Trainer Kabutore (loosely translated as Stock Transaction Trainer Kabutore), or Kabutore for short, Kojima seems to be aiming on joining the “training game” trend for games on the DS. Using real Tokyo Stock Exchange information from the last five years, the game practically teaches the player the basics of the stock market where they will learn to trade and study the ups and downs of the business world. For people who have never gone anywhere near stocks before, there will be a lecture and story mode which will act as the tutorial. For those with more business suave, then they can play the market as much as they want on expert mode, which lets the game function as a market simulator.

Though a release date has not yet been announced, this game seems like the type that would only be released in Japan, though there’s always the possibility that a U.S. or European version can be made in the future.