Majesco Games just announced that the Cooking Mama franchise has sold 1.6 million units. The original Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS, joined by its sequels Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends and Cooking Mama: Cook Off for the Nintendo Wii proved that a unique concept coupled with innovative controls do wonders. More details at the full article.

After crunching some numbers, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has predicted good profitability for Majesco Entertainment in its coming fiscal year. Much of its previous success was owed to its popular series Cooking Mama for both the DS and Wii platforms and is expected to push the company into a good financial state this 2008.

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We've got another batch of screenshots from Majesco Entertainment's upcoming video game for the Nintendo DS, Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends. In addition to the usual things around the kitchen, the screenshots show a number of additions to the game, like dressing up Mama and having the "friends" taste test your virtual food.

Check out what's cooking in the Cooking Mama 2 screenshots after the jump!

All the major gaming companies just can't wait to show their stuff at this year's Tokyo Game Show, and Taito is no exception. Seeing the popularity of the DS in the Japanese gaming market, they decided to go for broke and concentrate their entire line-up of games on Nintendo's marvelous little handheld.

Throwing in a mix of sequels, old-school remakes and some brand spanking new hat tricks, Taito's line-up includes: Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends, Exit DS, Arkanoid DS (along with its special paddle controller), The Legend of Kage 2, Pet Shop Monogatari DS, and Space Invaders Extreme.

Older gamers will definitely enjoy the nostalgic feel their remakes deliver after finally stepping up after all these years in gaming hibernation. Those unfortunate enough to remain landlocked, however, will have to wait for those games to arrive on your respective shores.

  

Who can resist positive reinforcement from Mama? Or the uplifting feeling of cooking virtual food? We've got a treat from you in the form of some screenshots from the upcoming DS video game from Majesco Entertainment and 505 Games, Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends.

Now that Cooking Mama is serving seconds, it seems that she now has a taste test crew to grade your virtual cooking. If you get high praise from the panel of judges, you get new recipes and a "cute present". Reportedly, you can decorate completed dishes just like in the first game, plus you'll be able to record all the dishes you've made in a diary. In these Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends screenshots, we see the step by step procedures on how to make apple pie.

Anyway, we'll leave you to check out the screenshots. Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends will be sashaying to the shelves early next year.

   

More Cooking Mama 2: Cooking with Friends screenshots after the jump!

Cooking Mama has served up 500,000 units for the Nintendo DS version since its release 11 months ago. Rightfully enough, Majesco Games has recently announced the development of Cooking Mama 2.

Aside from getting half a million in sales, Cooking Mama has won "Most Innovative DS Design of E3 2006" from IGN and the "Nod Award" from GameDaily, saying that Cooking Mama is "a fun DS game that uses the stylus to near perfection"

Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends promises to be just as fun but with much more challenge as budding chefs out there will be serving up their treats to nine friends who will be judging their works. A Wii version has also been announced to be in the works.

Majesco Entertainment has already hit it big with Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS, but Nollenberger Capital Partners analyst Tom Greenwald thinks that this is just the start of something big. Greenwald also stated that Majesco securing Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends is a "big win" for the company.

"Cooking Mama 2 was likely a competitive bid, and it is impressive that Majesco secured it as it was probably going up against much larger players," said Greenwald. "It shows the value of the strong relationships Majesco has with numerous Japanese developers and publishers like Office Create and Taito."

Greenwald also suggested that the Cooking Mama games are just the tip of the iceberg. "We believe there is a wealth of casual game content that is not being fully exploited on all platforms, which represents an opportunity for Majesco on the DS and Wii over the next 12-18 months," said Greenwald.

Greenwald noted further that Majesco may also be in negotiations with Sandlot Games for the DS rights to Cake Mania 2.

Majesco Entertainment has rolled out an official announcement for Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends for the Nintendo DS handheld gaming system. This Cooking Mama sequel will include more recipes as well as a couple of new features.

Players will still use the DS stylus to cook in this game, but the twist here is that players will now actually have to feed nine friends who will be tasting and judging the food they make. Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends will also have 80 new recipes that range from cultural delicacies like shark fin soup to apple pie.

On the multiplayer front, a new Challenge Mode will let up to four friends compete in a wireless cook off with only one game card. Players can also customize their kitchen - and even Mama! - in the new Decoration Mode.

The announcement also mentioned that a new version of Cooking Mama for the Nintendo Wii video game console is also being prepped. More details on the Wii version will reportedly be announced at a later date.