A PSP title was once again on top of the Japanese video sales rankings last week according to tracking company Media Create. Konami’s Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 notched up 117 000 sales, a very good result for the series on PSP as the first two sold just 38 836 and 27 213 in their opening weeks. In second place Bandai-Namco’s Endless Frontier, a new Super Robot Wars OG game for the DS, sold 98 000 in its opening week.

The only holdovers on the chart this week were Nintendo’s Mario Kart Wii at 50 000 and Wii Fit at 46 000, and Capcom’s Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP) at 45 000. In fact, Nintendo’s recent dominance in the charts took a breather this week as no less than eight of the top 10 titles were published by third parties, including a few by smaller companies.

Bandai-Namco’s fitness game for the Wii, Family Trainer, sold 44 000 copies in its opening week. Kadokawa Shoten’s D.C. II: P.S., which looks to be a dating sim of some sort for the PS2 sold 40 000. Valhalla Knights 2 from Marvelous Entertainment was the third PSP entry in the top ten in a week which only featured two DS entries in the chart, with 32 000 copies sold. Finally, Mana Khemia 2: The Fallen School and the Alchemists (PS2) from Gust and Empty Space Training from Benesse for the DS make up the final two spots. If anything this chart has the most interesting game titles of any in quite a while - quite what Empty Space Training is is anyone’s guess!

The hardware chart is posted to tomorrow, and as always we look forward what it holds!