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Japanese charts: PS3 on top

Xbox 360 tumbles out of sight.

The PS3 remains the top-selling Japanese console this week, and puts daylight between itself and nearest challenger, the Nintendo Wii.

Only DS and PSP count new entries of any note in the software chart, however. These are Mobile Suit Gundam and Disgaea 2 for PSP, and some Yugioh 5D game for DS.

Out of the top 50, nearly half (22) of the list is occupied by games for DS, according to Media Create data (reproduced on NeoGAF). The rest of spaces divide more evenly: 10 games for Wii, nine games for PSP, five games for PS3 and four games for PS2.

The Xbox 360 is absent, then, as platform sales tumble down to the 5000 mark.

This Week Last Week Title Platform Weekly Sales Lifetime Sales
1 New entry Mobile Suit Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable PSP 85,000 85,000
2 New entry Disgaea 2 PSP 39,000 39,000
3 New entry Yugioh 5D's: Stardust Accelerator: World Championship 2009 DS 37,000 37,000
4 4 Mario & Luigi RPG 3 DS 36,000 464,000
5 1 Super Robot Taisen K DS 32,000 149,000
6 2 Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2009 PS2 27,000 77,000
7 8 Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) PSP 24,000 531,000
8 5 Warriors Orochi Z PS3 21,000 169,000
9 6 Resident Evil 5 PS3 17,000 427,000
10 7 Rittai Picross 3D DS 16,000 78,000
Platform This Week Last Week This Year Lifetime
Nintendo DS 65,809 80,181 1,007,884 26,127,527
PlayStation Portable 54,148 65,765 699,866 12,063,885
PlayStation 3 22,825 25,435 348,110 2,970,538
Nintendo Wii 17,276 18,095 389,738 7,868,639
PlayStation 2 5246 5067 76,007 21,475,531
Xbox 360 4849 5441 144,529 975,069

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