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One Piece drives PS Vita up in Japan

One Piece Pirate Warriors 2 was the big release in Japan last week among a decent bunch of games with the PS3 version doing the lion's share of business with over 250,000 and the Vita being a decent tailgunner with 60,000. Pro Spirits on the PSP outsold the Vita version thanks to its huge install base. Dead or Alive 5+ sales will probably be viewed as disappointing!

01./00. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Nintendo) 280.151 / NEW
02./00. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 # (Bandai Namco Games) - 274.625 / NEW
03./00. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 (Konami)  - 101.389 / NEW
04./00. [PSP] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 (Konami)  - 80.618 / NEW
05./00. [PSV] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 # (Bandai Namco Games)  - 60.315 / NEW
06./04. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo)  - 56.876 / 2.918.394 (-3%)
07./00. [PS3] Disgaea D2 # (Nippon Ichi Software)  - 55.443 / NEW
08./00. [3DS] Pretty Rhythm: My Deco Rainbow Wedding - 33.466 / NEW
09./02. [PS3] Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX (Square Enix)  - 29.401 / 157.815 (-77%)
10./00. [PSV] Atelier Meruru Plus: The Alchemist of Arland 3 # (Gust) - 25.095 / NEW
11./00. [PSV] Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 (Konami)  - 23.621 / NEW
12./00. [360] Gears of War: Judgment # (Microsoft Game Studios) - 23.345 / NEW
13./03. [3DS] Super Robot Wars UX # (Bandai Namco Games)  - 18.818 / 134.202 (-84%)
14./01. [PSP] Sword Art Online: Infinity Moment # (Bandai )  - 18.002 / 156.182 (-87%)
15./05. [PSV] Soul Sacrifice # (Sony)  - 15.488 / 137.006 (-47%)
16./00. [3DS] Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate (Konami) - 14.138 / NEW
17./00. [PSV] Dead or Alive 5+ # (Koei Tecmo) - 13.291 / NEW
18./07. [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 8 # (Koei Tecmo)  - 11.523 / 283.734 (-48%)
19./06. [PS3] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f (Sega)  - 11.482 / 147.959 (-56%)
20./14. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # (Nintendo) - 10.497 / 1.970.061 (+20%)

For hardware, the Vita made decent improvement on last week with 41,000, up 5,000, carrying on its recent good run of form. With Japan heading into the Golden Week holiday when sales go ballistic, Sony and partners need to keep the releases coming to ensure this level of sales becomes normal rather than a blip.

3DS Sales 76,500 
PSV Sales 41,000
PSP Sales 12,600

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