Yakuza: Of The End Tops The Japanese Software Charts

We received our copy earlier this week but haven't had a chance to check it out yet. It's sitting temptingly on the top of our "to play" pile though.

Elsewhere it was a poor week for Japanese software, with the ridiculously titled Gekiatsu!! Pachige Tamashii Portable Vol.1 Evangelion Shinjitsu No Tsubasa and Red Faction Armageddon debuting in sixth and ninth respectively.

PSP managed to maintain its hold over the Nintendo 3DS despite its sales slipping, and the PlayStation 3's performance remained iffy with just over 17,000 systems shifted for the week. Hopefully the Japanese market picks up soon, its desperately in need of kick-start at the moment.

Software:

1. Yakuza Of The End (Sega, PS3): 298,717 NEW!
2. Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D (Capcom, 3DS): 15,551 (Life-to-date: 74,343)
3. Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS (Pokemon, DS): 11,421 (130,812)
4. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional (Square Enix, DS): 10,526 (530,022)
5. One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special (Namco Bandai, 3DS): 8,384 (105,625)
6. Gekiatsu!! Pachige Tamashii Portable Vol.1 Evangelion Shinjitsu no Tsubasa (Fields, PSP): 6,808 NEW!
7. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 6,243 (1,911,195)
8. Akiba's Trip (Acquire, PSP): 5,523 (89,477)
9. Red Faction Armageddon (Spike, PS3): 5,436 NEW!
10. Patapon 3 (SCEJ, PSP): 5,306 (116,798)

Hardware:

1. PSP: 26,681 (Last week: 30,155)
2. 3DS: 24,649 (27,357)
3. PS3: 17,104 (16,510)
4. Wii: 6,357 (6,315)
5. DSi XL: 5,283 (5,452)
6. DSi: 5,232 (5,187)
7. Xbox 360: 2,370 (2,499)
8. PS2: 1,291 (1,228)
9. DS Lite: 146 (138)
10. PSP go: 69 (62)