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Japanese charts get two Vita games in the top 20, hardware sales firmly up

Here we go again, and this week in Japan we have a PS Vita game near the top 10, the latest in the long running Pro Baseball Spirits series comes in at No. 11, some way behind the PSP and PS3 versions. The PSP's Yakuza title is down from No. 2 last week but still doing a good effort among the horde of 3DS titles.

Little King's Story makes a poor entry in at 19, selling just over 7,000 copies

UPDATE: Now with full sales figures.

01./00. [3DS] Kingdom Hearts 3D -Dream Drop Distance- # <RPG> - 213.579 / NEW
02./00. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2012  90.433 / NEW
03./00. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2012  60.141 / NEW
04./01. [3DS] Kid Icarus: Uprising 47.179 / 179.705 (-64%)
05./03. [NDS] Pokemon Conquest - 30.535 / 267.608 (-53%)
06./02. [PSP] Black Panther 2: Yakuza Ashura Chapter  26.655 / 131.592 (-75%)
07./09. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land #24.936 / 1.464.696 (+23%)
08./07. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G #  21.288 / 1.358.410 (-5%)
09./08. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 <RCE>  19.653 / 1.621.631 (-6%)
10./00. [PS3] The Idolmaster: Gravure For You! Vol.6 - 17.759 / NEW
11./00. [PSV] Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 <SPT> 17.264 / NEW
12./12. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games - 12.947 / 112.603 (-23%)
13./04. [PS3] Devil May Cry HD Collection  11.926 / 55.717 (-73%)
14./15. [3DS] Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai # 8.267 / 124.618 (-27%)
15./00. [PS3] Silent Hill HD Edition <ADV>- 7.971 / NEW
16./13. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors # 7.851 / 804.601 (-52%)
17./16. [3DS] Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin 7.657 / 154.764 (-23%)
18./10. [PSP] Shining Blade <RPG>  7.535 / 148.824 (-60%)
19./00. [PSV] The King, the Demon King and the 7 Princesses: New King Story - 7.141 / NEW
20./21. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Wii Remote Plus #  6.596 / 905.638

And as for the hardware front, PS Vita sales are up nearly 2,000 to 12,105 on the week, not sure if that's because of a few games coming out this and next week, or if Sony's bundling of a 4GB memory card with the console has kicked in yet.

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