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We have seven new entries in the charts this week and it’s great to see three of them are PSP titles, including top spot for Konami’s Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3. The popular baseball series with cute characters have a surprisingly big opening week with close to 110,000 copies sold, that’s almost the cumulative sales of the previous game. Famitsu says it’s the Success Mode and My Life Mode in the game that help pushed the game’s sales.

Another impressive PSP title is Valhalla Knights 2’s 35,000 start, beating the original game’s first week and hope it bodes well for its US release. Of the three adventure games released on the PSP, Clannad proved that it’s the most popular with almost 30,000 copies while the two Memories Off games only have a combined sales of 8,000 copies.

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After eight weeks, Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! became the first game to unseat Mario Kart Wii and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G from the top spots in the latest Japanese charts. At this rate, MHP 2ndG looks all set to surpass Wii Fit’s cumulative sales next week for Media Create (although it has already done so based on Enterbrain’s data). Early Enterbrain’s figures also shows that PSP is still leading on the hardware front.

Next week will be an interesting week for PSP as Konami’s highly popular baseball series Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 and Marvelous’ RPG Valhalla Knights 2 get released. Not forgetting also the trio of adventure games (Clannad, Memories Off and Memories Off 2nd), who all have been popular in Japan.

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Bleach: Heat the Soul 5 made a great start in Japan last week with around 40,000 copies sold and seems to be well on its way to beat the series’ previous sales record (Bleach: Heat the Soul 4 sold 120,000 copies so far). Unfortunately, the other PSP debutant, Irem’s Ikuze! Gen-San: Yuuyake Daiku Monogatari, did poorly with only less than 2,000 copies sold, thanks to Weekly Famitsu rather average review of 6,5,6,6 (the one hit death and long loading time are the major complaints).

It’s rather pleasing to see two PSP games in the Top 10 with the rest being Nintendo’s games as well. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G’s close fight with Mario Kart Wii continues with a top spot for each on Media Create and Enterbrain respectively.

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Mario Kart Wii and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G remain strong in their 6th and 8th week respectively, with the latter reaching it’s 2 million sold milestone few days ago. The charts are dominated by Nintendo’s titles, with Wii Sports, Hajimete no Wii: Your First Step To Wii and Dairantou Smash Bros. X all return to take their usual positions. Also note the incredible run of Mario Kart DS, more than 2 years after its launch. On the hardware side, PSP sold 20,000 units less than the previous week but is still ahead of the rest of the pack at around 73,000 units.

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Most games and systems received a little bump in the Golden Week celebration and as a result Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G sold above the 100,000 level again with a little extra help from the ongoing Monster Hunter Festa ‘08. PS3’s Senjou no Valkyria, my most looking forward to game (when the English version come out this October) at the moment and already been declared the best Sega RPG for a long time, managed to sell more than 100,000 copies in its second week. Hardware wise PSP is still leading the pack with close to 90,000 units sold while NDS is the closest rival again at more than 60,000 units.

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The Top 2 stayed the same this week as Mario Kart Wii sprints towards a million sold and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G looking strong for 2 million. The best selling new entry this week is Sega great looking Senjou no Valkyria (to be released as Valkyria Chronicles in the US this September), the strategy game sold 77,000 copies.

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Mario Kart Wii and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G continues to pull in six figures sales with MHP 2ndG now even closer towards outselling its predecessor in less than a month time. The game is also making sure that PSP is the leader in hardware sales with around 78,000 units sold.

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Mario Kart Wii made a great first week to deny Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G it’s third week at the top spot of the Japanese charts. The game sold more than 600,000 copies while MHP 2ndG did 200,000. It’s great to see Star Ocean 2 The Second Evolution breaks the 100,000 marks and a place among the top 10. The first game, Star Ocean The First Departure, did around 180,000 so far. On the hardware front, PSP continues to lead the pack with more than 90,000 units sold.

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At this rate, Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, will probably beats its predecessor’s total sales figure in less than a month time. The game sold more around 480,000 copies this week, totaling 1.3 million so far. MHP 2nd took more than 13 months to move 1.6 million copies according to Enterbrain’s latest figure. As a result, the PSP system continues to sell extremely well, early figure put it at more than 100,000 units again, double that of Nintendo DS.

Square Enix’s Star Ocean Second Evolution debuts at 3rd with more than 90,000 copies sold in a week of many new games in the charts.

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A little game by the name of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G sold more than 800,000 in its first four days, topping the charts by a wide margin in the process (Capcom confirmed earlier that they have shipped 1 million copies of the game, the fastest in the series’ history). MHP 2ndG also pushed the PSP hardware to the incredible high of 139,000 units during the week according Enterbrain’s data. Amazingly, more than 7,000 people also bought Monster Hunter Portable 2nd, the game that MHP 2ndG is based upon.

Another notable entry in the Top 10 for the PSP is Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion - Lost Colors, which sold a little better than the PS2 version. Next week, with MHP 2ndG still going strong and Star Ocean 2 Second Evolution incoming, the PSP looks set to end the spring in style.

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