Bandai Namco’s Another Century’s Episode R for the PS3 is this weeks Japanese video game sales chart topper according to tracker, Media Create, selling about 220,000 copies and beating previous entries in the series first sales weeks by a fair margin. The game is the fourth entry in the action series featuring mechs and robots from various Japanese anime series like Mobile Suit Gundam, Macross Zero and Code Geass, and is the first entry on the PS3

After the success of Sengoku Basara 3 a few weeks ago and this week’s Another Century’s Episode R, Japanese publishers of smaller franchises such as these must be more optimistic about achieving success on PS3 as their recent PS3 instalments have sold more copies in their first weeks on sale than their previous PS2 ones.

Wii Party continues selling well for Nintendo, dropping 45% to 69,000 copies this week and falling to second place in the chart. Meanwhile Compile Heart’s Super Dimensional Game Neptune for PS3 sneaks in at number 3 with 23,000 copies sold in its first week. This game is certainly interesting and… different. It features four continents named Planetune, Lastation, Rinnebox and Ruwii in the world of Game Industry and is an RPG in which the goddesses of these continents battle each other in human form, hardware form or hardware personification form.

Level 5’s Inazuma Eleven 3 (NDS) continues selling well, dropping just 36% (remember last week was Obon, so most games got a boost to sales) to 18,000 for a total of almost 800k so far. Capcom’s Sengoku Basara 3 (PS3) continues its strong run with 18,000 copies sold this week for a total of just over 350 000. The rest of the top 10 is pretty uneventful, with most games falling one or two spots because of the new entries.

You can see the entire chart below:

1. Another Century’s Episode R (Bandai Namco) - PS3 - 220 000
2. Wii Party (Nintendo) - Wii - 69 000
3. Super Dimensional Game Neptune (Compile Heart) - PS3 - 23 000
4. Inazuma Eleven 3 (Level 5) - NDS - 18 000
5. Sengoku Basara 3 (Capcom) - PS3 - 18 000
6. Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X (Bandai Namco) - PSP - 16 000
7. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo) - Wii - 14 000
8. Art Academy (Nintendo) - NDS - 13 000
9. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2 (Sega) - PSP - 13 000
10. Friend Collection (Nintendo) - NDS - 10 000

More numbers, including this week's hardware sales, after the break..

Nintendo's latest Wii hit shows its impressive legs once again this week, with mini-game collection Wii Party returning to its first place spot on the Japanese video game sales charts. Almost zero competition certainly helped.

Really. There wasn't much in the way of competition for Wii Party — or anything else for that matter. New PSP game Corpse Party: Blood Covered - Repeated Fear may have a great title, but it didn't crack the top ten. The same for Kazoku Keikaku.

That stagnant release week helped keep games like Sengoku Basara 3 and Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X near the top of the charts, making for a relatively unexciting week, sales competition-wise.

For the bestselling games in Japan for the week of August 9 to 15, courtesy of Media Create, read on.

01. Wii Party (Wii) - 124,000 / 736,000
02. Sengoku Basara 3 (PS3) - 35,000 / 335,000
03. Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! Bomber / Spark (DS) - 28,000 / 780,000
04. Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X (PSP) - 28,000 / 136,000
05. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd (PSP) - 24,000 / 301,000
06. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 21,000 / 770,000
07. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd (DS) - 17,000 / 125,000
08. Egokoro Kyoushitsu DS (DS) - 15,000 / 3,379,000
09. Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Victory (Wii) - 15,000 / 220,000
10. Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Dororon! Youkai Daikessen!! (DS) - 14,000 / 176,000

More stuffs, including hardware, after the page break..

Last week's sales champ, Sengoku Basara 3, was soundly defeated by Namco's latest Tales game, which draws upon the powers of a big PSP install base and Japan's love of doe-eyed anime-style characters. How well did Tales of Phantasia do?

Well enough to outsell Wii Party! Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X moved an impressive, first place spot-winning 108,000 copies during its debut week, enough to force Wii Party to settle for second. Not bad for a PSP remake... of a remake? Honestly, I'm thoroughly confused by just how deeply the remakes go for Tales of Phantasia. Any superfans that can provide more insight?

There are a handful of other new entries on this week's chart, including the sexy-sounding StormLover, Tetris Party Premium and the "special edition" release of Assassin's Creed II.

Japan's bestselling games for the week of August 2 to 8, according to Media Create, is below.

01. Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X (PSP) - 108,000 / NEW
02. Wii Party (Wii) - 83,000 / 612,000
03. Sengoku Basara 3 (PS3) - 57,000 / 300,000
04. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd (PSP) - 36,000 / 277,000
05. Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! Bomber / Spark (DS) - 24,000 / 752,000
06. StormLover (PSP) - 20,000 / NEW
07. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 17,000 / 749,000
08. Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (DS) - 16,000 / 213,000
09. Sengoku Basara 3 (Wii) - 15,000 / 65,000
10. Battle Spirits: Digital Starter (DS) - 15,000 / NEW

More numbers and all the hardware data after the break..

What does Japan like this week? Feudal Japanese fantasy battles in the form of Sengoku Basara 3 and rhythm games starring vocaloid Hatsune Miku. Yep, shirtless samurai warriors and sexy singing robots are just what Japan needed more of.

The PlayStation 3 wins this week's software war, thanks to Capcom's Sengoku Basara 3, which moved close to a quarter million copies to Japanese gamers. (We knew the series as Devil Kings when it made its Western debut.) The Wii version of that game also charted, moving 50,000 copies. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd, the previously mentioned vocaloid-starring rhythm game from Sega, sold 241,000 copies to PSP owners.

Last week's champ, Wii Party, is still hangin' tough, crossing the half-million mark this week. A handful of new debuts, from Metal Max 3 to the latest Ys game, also appear in the top ten.

Check the full list for all the new recruits. According to Media Create, these are the bestselling games in Japan for the week of July 26 to August 1, 2010.

01. Sengoku Basara 3 (PS3) - 243,000 / NEW
02. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2nd (PSP) - 241,000 / NEW
03. Wii Party (Wii) - 83,000 / 529,000
04. Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride Card Battle Taisen (DS) - 64,000 / NEW
05. Sengoku Basara 3 (Wii) - 50,000 / NEW
06. Metal Max 3 (DS) - 47,000 / NEW
07. Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! Bomber / Spark (DS) - 34,000 / 727,000
08. Ys vs. Sora no Kiseki: Alternative Saga (PSP) - 30,000 / NEW
09. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 (PSP) - 22,000 / 103,000
10. Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (DS) - 21,000 / 197,000

More sales data, including the hardware numbers, after the break..

After taking a breather from dominating Japan's sales charts, Nintendo's Wii Party continues to party hard at the top of the list. Wii Party could be a great game, so why shouldn't it sell really well?

Well, it didn't have much strong competition this week, with PSP role-playing game Fate/Extra coming closest to threatening Wii Party's first place finish. The rest of the stuff is purely Japanese fare, with the exception of Ninety Nine Nights II. It debuted unimpressively in 17th place. Not surprising for an Xbox 360 game, but surely not good news for publisher Konami.

Games like the latest Inazuma Eleven, Fire Emblem and Super Mario Galaxy 2 continue to sell well overseas. To see how your favorite Japanese train simulator or portable game show performed, read on.

These are the bestselling games in Japan, according to Media Create, for the week of July 19 to 25.

01. Wii Party (Wii) - 99,000 / 446,000
02. Fate/Extra (PSP) - 72,000 / NEW
03. Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! Bomber / Spark (DS) - 44,000 / 693,000
04. Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (DS) - 39,000 / 176,000
05. Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Victory (Wii) - 36,000 / 172,000
06. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 (PSP) - 29,000 / 81,000
07. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 (PS3) - 28,000 / 148,000
08. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 21,000 / 714,000
09. Last Ranker (PSP) - 21,000 / 81,000
10. Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! DS Flame Rumble XX - Kessen! Shin 6 Chouka (DS) - 20,000 / NEW

Much more after the break.. read on.

Last week's Japanese software champ, the brand-new Wii Party, had its first place
festivities cut short this week after a strong showing from two other games, both on Nintendo's platform.

Nintendo DS remake Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu reigns supreme this week, with Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory, an arcade to Wii port, coming in second. The sales figures may make it look like a tie, but according to sales tracker Media Create, the Fire Emblem re-release outsold everything else.

Konami's latest baseball game, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010, and Capcom's new RPG Last Ranker also managed to crack the top ten. You can see for yourself by checking the full top 30 bestselling games below.

01. Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (DS) - 136,000 / NEW
02. Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory (Wii) - 136,000 / NEW
03. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 (PS3) - 120,000 / NEW
04. Wii Party (Wii) - 113,000 / 348,000
05. Last Ranker (PSP) - 61,000 / NEW
06. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 (PSP) - 52,000 / NEW
07. Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! Bomber / Spark (DS) - 46,000 / 649,000
08. White Knight Chronicles II (PS3) - 34,000 / 210,000
09. Bokujou Monogatari: Futago no Mura (DS) - 20,000 / 84,000
10. Momotarou Dentetsu Tag Match: Yuujou - Doryoku - Shouri no Maki! (PSP) - 19,000 / NEW

Much more data, including hardware numbers, after the break..

Nintendo's newest mini-game good time, Wii Party, makes it debut in Japan, handily defeating its competitors with a strong first week. Does the Wii have a new multi-million-seller on its hands?

With 235,000 copies of Wii Party sold in the first week, it doesn't seem unreasonable for the first-party game to be well on its way to cross the million sold mark. While Super Mario Galaxy 2 may be slowly approaching the million mark after nearly two months on the chart—it debuted with 340,000 in sales during week one—the Wii's more
casual-focused games tend to fare a bit better.

The people who make Professor Layton games and the sharp-looking Studio Ghibli game Ni no Kuni have another hit on their hands, the latest sports-themed RPG, Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!!, Japan's bestselling game.

Both versions of Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! for the Nintendo DS toppled last week's champ, the Xbox 360 game Monster Hunter Frontier. That previously bestselling Capcom game slips way down to 14th place on this week's chart, illustrating the staying power of Xbox 360 games. Japan would appear to prefer games like the latest taiko drumming game Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Dororon! Youkai Daikessen!! and fighting game Blazblue: Continuum Shift, two chart topping new debuts.

A smattering of other new debuts appear throughout this week's Media Create sales chart. Do your eyes and brain a favor and see what they are.

Software Chart

01. Inazuma Eleven 3: Sekai e no Chousen!! Bomber / Spark (DS) - 505,000 / NEW
02. Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Dororon! Youkai Daikessen!! (DS) - 70,000 / NEW
03. Blazblue: Continuum Shift (PS3) - 50,000 / NEW
04. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 35,000 / 648,000
05. Digimon Story: Lost Evolution (DS) - 34,000 / NEW
06. Love Plus+ (DS) - 22,000 / 106,000
07. Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Story (DS) - 20,000 / 72,000
08. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Aoki Samurai no Chousen (PS3) - 19,000 / 160,000
09. Egokoro Kyoushitsu DS (DS) - 19,000 / 60,000
10. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Aoki Samurai no Chousen (PSP) - 16,000 / 101,000

More numbers as well as hardware details after the break..

So, a Xbox 360 game rests the top of the Japanese sales charts.. that Xbox 360 game is, of course, a Monster Hunter title, the only game powerful enough to defeat Love
Plus+.

Yes, Monster Hunter Frontier did big numbers in its debut week in Japan, moving more than 90,000 copies in its first days on the market. Hey, they're not Monster Hunter 3 numbers, but cut Frontier some slack! It's not on the Wii, y'know.

And yes, Love Plus+, the virtual girlfriend sim for the Nintendo DS did just fine
if you're wondering, joining more PSP adventure games and dating simulations in the Media Create top ten. Former chart topper Super Mario Galaxy 2 is still in there. The chart is just flooded with new debuts, many of which you'll never play unless you have
command over the Japanese language.

The full week, below and hardware and more below that.

01. Monster Hunter Frontier (Xbox 360) - 93,000 / NEW
02. Love Plus+ (DS) - 84,000 / NEW
03. Totori no Atelier: Arland no Renkinjutsushi 2 (PS3) - 54,000 / NEW
04. Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 3rd Story (DS) - 52,000 / NEW
05. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 42,000 / 614,000
06. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (Ohaidoku-han) (PSP) - 29,000 / NEW
07. White Album: Tsuzurareru Fuyu no Omoide (PS3) - 26,000 / NEW
08. Starry * Sky: In Spring - PSP Edition (PSP) - 22,000 / NEW
09. Ghost Trick (DS) - 20,000 / 44,000
10. Egokoro Kyoushitsu DS (DS) - 20,000 / 41,000

See the rest and your hardware data, after the break.

After taking a week off to give Wii role-playing game Xenoblade a moment in the sun, Super Mario Galaxy 2 returns to its first place spot in Japan. Two new Nintendo DS games came closest to threatening Mario's chances.

Those two games were Capcom's Ghost Trick, a clever-looking adventure game from the creator of the Ace Attorney series, and Egokoro Kyoushitsu DS, Nintendo's new painting tool that falls under the "non-game" category. Wonder if we'll see the latter come stateside...

There's at least one new PlayStation 3 game on the list, the debut of Trauma Team in Japan, a new Tamagotchi title and a new contender for longest game title ever. That'd be Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo: Machiteba Tengoku! Makereba Jigoku! Ryoutsuryuu Ikkakusenkin Daisakusen!

01. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 53,000 / 572,000
02. Ghost Trick (DS) - 24,000 / NEW
03. Egokoro Kyoushitsu DS (DS) - 21,000 / NEW
04. Xenoblade (Wii) - 21,000 / 104,000
05. Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City (PS3) - 21,000 / 85,000
06. Tamagotchi no Pichi Pichi Omisecchi (DS) - 17,000 / NEW
07. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Aoki Samurai no Chousen (PS3) - 16,000 / 122,000
08. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 14,000 / 3,277,000
09. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Aoki Samurai no Chousen (PSP) - 13,000 / 69,000
10. Hakuoki: Junsouroku (PS3) - 13,000 / NEW

More numbers, including the hardware, after the break..