Japan: PSP and Monster Hunter Still on Top

The Japanese charts shows that with overall sales numbers falling the PlayStation Portable handheld from Sony managed to retain the number one spot in the hardware chart while Monster Hunter Diary: Pokapoka Ailu Village leads the video games sales chart.

The PlayStation Portable managed to sell 35,766 units in one week, which is significantly lower than the 55.412 that it managed during the previous seven day period, signaling that even the popularity of Monster Hunter can only sustain a sales surge for one week.

The PlayStation 3 managed to again come in second spot, with sales going down from 25,053 to 22,227, as no big releases arrived for the Sony home console.

The Nintendo DSi LL version, complete with its two cameras for social action and its bigger screen, sits at number three, lowing just a few devices in terms of sales to reach 18,929.

The DSi continues to sell better than the Nintendo Wii home console while the older DS Lite managed to beat the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 2 and the PSP Go in terms of sales.

In the video games chart Monster Hunter Diary: Pokapoka Ailu Village from Capcom for the PSP managed to stay in top with sales of 88,405, a healthy number for a second week on sales but nowhere near the half million managed in the previous seven day interval.

Wii Party managed to jump to second spot with sales of 55,837 copies, ahead of the much anticipated Metroid: Other M, a collaboration between Team Ninja and Nintendo that launched for the Wii and managed to sell 45,398 units.

Ace Combat X2: Joint Assault from Bandai Namco for the PlayStation 3 slid down two places to fourth, with sales of 27,560 while fifth spot was taken over by another new release, Bleach: Heat the Soul 7, from Sony Computer Entertainment.

The rest of the top ten includes: Super Mario Galaxy 2; Art Academy; Inazuma Eleven 3: World Challenge; Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Another Century's Episode R.