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Time Travelers debuts strong on Japanese charts, hardware comes in flat

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Media Create has released its weekly retail chart for Japan, and unsurprisingly, Pokemon Black & White 2 was once again tops with 122,242 units moved. The 3DS and Vita versions of Level-5's Time Travelers also debuted this week with 27,754 units combined. The strongest debut of the week though, was Taiko Drum Master: Chibi Dragon and the Mysterious Orb with 65,642.

3Ds was still the reigning king of the hardware chart, but sales fell a bit over last week. Despite a slight upsurge in PS3 sales, hardware a rather flat over the previous week.

The entire Media Create figures are below, courtesy of Gematsu.

Here’s the full software chart, covering July 9 through July 15. Life-to-date sales are in parentheses.

  1. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 (Pokemon, 06/23/12) – 122,242 (2,289,408)
  2. [3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Chibi Dragon and the Mysterious Orb (Namco Bandai, 07/12/12) – 65,642 (New)
  3. [3DS] Pocket Soccer League: Calciobit (Nintendo, 07/12/12) – 26,449 (New)
  4. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland 3D (Square Enix, 05/31/2012) – 18,245 (812,452)
  5. [3DS] Little Battler eXperience: Baku Boost (Level-5, 07/05/12) – 18,152 (72,507)
  6. [PSP] Toriko Gourmet Survival 2 (Namco Bandai, 07/05/12) – 15,187 (53,827)
  7. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey IV (Atlus, 07/05/12) – 14,639 (110,145)
  8. [PSV] Time Travelers (Level-5, 07/12/12) – 9,332 (New)
  9. [Wii] Mario Party 9 (Nintendo, 04/26/12) – 9,090 (481,414)
  10. [3DS] Time Travelers (Level-5, 07/12/12) – 9,054 (New)
  11. [PS3] Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (Ubisoft, 07/05/12) – 8,675 (31,994)
  12. [PS3] Atelier Ayesha: Alchemist of the Ground of Dusk (Gust, 06/28/12) – 6,813 (81,147)
  13. [3DS] Mario Tennis Open (Nintendo, 06/23/12) – 6,491 (224,754)
  14. [3DS] Culdcept (Nintendo, 06/28/12) – 6,162 (73,650)
  15. [PSV] Persona 4 Golden (Atlus, 06/14/12) – 6,0091 (195,750)
  16. [PS3] Anarchy Reigns (Sega, 07/05/12) – 5,717 (27,633)
  17. [PS3] Tokyo Jungle (SCEJ, 06/07/12) – 5,332 (190,344)
  18. [Wii] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, 06/25/09) – 5,225 (981,189)
  19. [PSV] Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (Konami, 06/28/12) – 5,192 (31,789)
  20. [PSV] Resistance: Burning Skies (SCEJ, 07/12/12) – 5, 138 (New)

Here’s the hardware chart for the same period. Last week’s sales are in parentheses.

  • 3DS – 47,063 (52,421)
  • PS3 - 14,813 (14,536)
  • PSV - 13,427 (13,758)
  • PSP - 11,004 (10,999)
  • Wii - 6,747 (6,818)
  • PS2 - 1,197 (1,123)
  • 360 - 930 (967)
  • DSi – 581 (550)
  • DSi LL – 559 (560)

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