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Vita still batting straight in Japan

The Vita is holding firm in Japan with a near flat week of 24,500 sales, down just 800 on the previous week, and likely taking the new model over 100,000 sales in three weeks. In the chart, perennial favourite Jikkyou Baseball does the business across all three PlayStation formats.

The PSP version manages to outstrip the Vita thanks to its ten-times greater user base and there's three PSP titles in the top ten, in case you thought that was going away anytime soon. But the Vita rampage starts soon enough with sales likely to go ballistic again.

01./01. [3DS] Pokemon X / Y # (Pokemon Co.)  - 229.402 / 2.569.124 (-52%)
02./00. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2013 (Konami)  - 83.883 / NEW
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06./00. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2013 (Konami)  - 36.002 / NEW
07./00. [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2013 (Konami)  - 24.331 / NEW
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09./00. [PSP] Kamigami no Itazura # (Broccoli)  - 12.078 / NEW
10./00. [PSP] Diabolik Lovers: More, Blood # (Idea Factory)  - 10.481 / NEW
11./10. [PSV] Dangan-Ronpa 1-2: Reload (Spike Chunsoft) - 10.459 / 96.162 (+10%)



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