This week saw a massive sell-through of the second most popular monster fighting game in Japan (after Pokemon) with Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G taking last week's top spot.

This shows that the defection of Monster Hunter 3 (currently in production) from PlayStation 3 to Wii, could turn out to be an important strategic move for Nintendo.

This week also saw Brawl finally hit the 1.5 million sales that North America managed in a fraction of the time. Charts and more after the break...

01. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) – 880,000 / New Entry
02. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Batonnage (Nintendo) – 106,000 / 348,000
03. [NDS] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Bandai) – 49,000 / New Entry
04. [Wii] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 42,000 / 1,794,000
05. [PSP] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion… (Namco) – 34,000 / New Entry
06. [Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 34,000 / 1,524,000
07. [PS2] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion… (Namco) – 30,000 / New Entry
08. [Wii] Deca Sports (Hudson) – 29,000 / 94,000
09. [NDS] SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future (EA) – 25,000 / 74,000
10. [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi (Banpresto) – 19,000 / 54,000

Monster Hunter sales also affected hardware with PSP dominating this week, selling double that of the Nintendo DS.

PSP – 129,986
NDS – 58,916
Wii – 48,785
PS3 – 11,206
PS2 – 10,296
360 – 1,547

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