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Disgaea 3 in at No. 3 on the UK Vita chart

A disturbance in The Force this week as the new Disgaea 3 Absence of Detention  rumbles into the Vita's top 10 UK sales, with a solid performance. The top two duo of FIFA and Uncharted swap places again in their long-running tango, with some minor shuffling to make way for the new release.

1 FIFA FOOTBALL EA SPORTS
2 UNCHARTED: GOLDEN ABYSS SONY COMPUTER
3 new DISGAEA 3: ABSENCE OF DETENTION KOEI
4 UNIT 13 SONY COMPUTER ENT
5 RAYMAN ORIGINS UBISOFT
6    EVERYBODY'S GOLF SONY COMPUTER ENT
7 WIPEOUT 2048 SONY COMPUTER ENT
8 MODNATION RACERS: ROAD TRIP SONY COMPUTER ENT
9 ASPHALT INJECTION UBISOFT
10 LITTLE DEVIANTS

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2012 UKIE Ltd UKIE, see the rest of the charts including All Formats Top 20 here, which Disgaea failed to make a dent in.

As mentioned last week, F1 2011 has rocketed up Sony's PSN popularity stakes due to its Chinese GP weekend-only price cut, leading the full-price games among the Vita's stellar line up of cheaper digital releases. (Note to Sony, please sort out the Latest page of the Vita store by release date now, that's a long list to wade through alphabetically for new games.)

UK PSN Top Sellers (as of Monday)

1. MotorStorm RC
2. Escape Plan
3. Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
4. F1 2011
5. Plants vs. Zombies
6. Super Stardust Delta
7. Unit 13
8. Hustle Kings
9. Rayman Origins
10. Ridge Racer

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