Aug 16, 2010 19:01 GMT  ·  By

The PlayStation Portable from Sony has slowed down its sales pace on the Japanese hardware market, allowing the Nintendo DS family of handhelds to be the best sold devices, while the debuting Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X took number one in the video games sales chart.

The PlayStation Portable is still the best selling individual console mode, managing to push about 30,397 units to gamers.

This is definite decrease over the previous week when the device managed to sell 48,603 units.

The same trend is noticeable when it comes to the PlayStation 3 home console, which saw its numbers drop in a week from 45,224 to 28,630 to take second spot.

The DSi LL, the Nintendo made device that has two video cameras and a bigger screen that its siblings, has managed to sell 21,018 units, which is lower than 23,120 but still good enough for third spot.

The normal version of the DSi is in fourth place, also seeing a reduction in overall sales numbers.

The Nintendo Wii closes down the top five consoles in Japan, with sales that are about 2,000 units smaller than during the previous week of 18,318.

The rest of the chart includes: the Xbox 360, the DS Lite, the PlayStation 2 and the PSP Go.

When it comes to actual video games the best selling title was Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X for the PlayStation Portable from Bandai Namco, with 108,356 copies moved to gamers.

Second spot went to Wii Party from Nintendo which managed to claw back one place over the previous week with 82,698 units sold.

Third spot was captured by Sengoku Basara 3 from Capcom for the PlayStation 3 with overall sales of 57,021.

Fourth place went to Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2 from SEGA while in fifth Japanese gamers slotted StormLover from D3 Publisher also for the PSP.