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..

Nintendo and Monolith’s Wii-exclusive title sees a healthy debut, while Super Mario Galaxy 2 is still seeing good numbers.

The Media Create sales chart for the week of June 7 through the 13 places Nintendo and Monolith Software's Wii RPG Xenoblade at the top of the charts. The RPG title sold 83,000 copies in its debut week. The previous chart topper, Super Mario Galaxy 2, experienced its first drop since its May 27 debut in Japan. The game sold 73,000 copies, pushing it to the half-million mark (519,000 copies have been sold since launch).

In fourth place is Capcom’s Mega Man Zero Collection for the DS. It sold 22,000 copies for the week. Square Enix's Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 rounds out the top five with 20,000 copies sold for a grand total of 1,142,000 copies sold. The top ten closes with two more Nintendo titles. In ninth place is Friend Collection which sold 12,000 copies. Finally, New Super Mario Wii sold 12,000 copies.

The full Media Create chart is as follows:

1. Xenoblade, Wii (83,000)
2. Super Mario Galaxy 2, Wii (73,000)
3. Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City, PlayStation 3 (64,000)
4. Mega Man Zero Collection, DS (22,000)
5. Dragon Quest Monster Joker 2, DS (20,000)
6. Just Cause 2, PlayStation 3 (19,000)
7. Fairy Tale Portable Guild, PlayStation Portable (14,000)
8. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010, PlayStation 3 (13,000)
9. Friend Collection, DS (12,000)
10. New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Wii (12,000)

More details and the hardware numbers after the break..

Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy 2 continues its reign as the best-selling game in Japan for a second week. The latest Media Create figures show that Mario’s latest intergalactic adventure sold 105,000 copies for the week ending the 6th of June. The title debuted at number 1 last week with 340,000 copies, bringing its life-to-date sales to just shy of half a million, 445,000 to be exact, in just two weeks.

Fairy Tale: Portable Guild for the PSP is new at number 2 with 35,000 copies while Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 for the DS climbs two spots to third with 23,000 copies. Let’s Make a Pro Soccer Club for the DS drops one place to fourth with 18,000 copies after a mediocre debut last week.

Lost Planet 2 for the PS3 moves up one position to finish at number 5 with 16,000 copies. Hisshou Pachinko Pachislot Kouryaku Series Portable Vol. 1 for the PSP enters the chart at number 6 with 14,000 copies while Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker remains in seventh with 14,000 copies.

There is much more, including the sales and hardware charts, after the break..

Square Enix's Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 saw a drop in weekly sales in Japan, but was able to lead charts for the third week in a row, followed once again by Konami and Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

For the week ended May 16, tracking firm Media Create said the DS role-playing game Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 sold 126,000 units. That's down from the game's debut week, which saw 624,000 in unit sales, and its second week, which saw 253,000 units.

Coming in second was Kojima's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for PSP, selling 63,000 units during the week, versus 434,000 when the game debuted and 141,000 units last week.

To date, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 has sold just over 1 million units in Japan, while Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker has sold 638,000 units. Both games launched on April 28 in the country.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii, released in Japan in December last year, continued to hang near the top of the charts with 19,000 units sold during the week. The game has sold over 3.8 million units in Japan.

Games that fell off of the top 10 list include the DS game Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light and Wii Sports Resort, which were ousted from the top 10 by new entries Haku Ouki Yugiroku from Idea Factory and 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa from EA.

Below are Media Create's weekly Japanese charts for the week ended May 16, 2010:

Nintendo's side-scroller for the Wii clearly has legs. New Super Mario Bros. Wii has been in the top ten since its launch in Japan this past December. But kudos to Mario, Luigi
and those Toads for getting back into first after a three-month break.

This week's bestsellers look like last week's bestsellers, with beat 'em up Fist of the North Star, baseball sim Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2010 and role-playing game Sekaiju no Meikyuu III: Seikai no Raihousha sticking around in the top ten.

Read on for the weekly ranking and to see the singular game that made its debut appearance on Media Create's top thirty.

01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 37,000 / 3,655,000
02. Fist of the North Star (PS3) - 34,000 / 491,000
03. Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2010 (PSP) - 31,000 / 82,000
04. Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2010 (PS3) - 31,000 / 88,000
05. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 23,000 / 3,090,000
06. Pokemon Ranger: Hikari no Kiseki (DS) - 20,000 / 381,000
07. Sekaiju no Meikyuu III: Seikai no Raihousha (DS) - 19,000 / 107,000
08. Yakuza 4 (PS3) - 18,000 / 519,000
09. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 15,000 / 1,818,000
10. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (the Best) (PSP) - 11,000 / 246,000

More after the break..

Sales of the new DSi LL dropped off this week in Japan, but the console still sold enough to keep it at the top of the hardware sales chart for a second week. In total, 67,243 units were sold, down from 100,553 during its launch week.

Wii sales rose to 46,673, which was just enough to knock the PlayStation 3, with 46,558 sales, into third position.

Performances of PSPgo and Xbox 360 remained poor, standing at 3809 and 3685 sales respectively.