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The gaming market's been relatively quiet in Japan over the last few weeks as far as PlayStation goes, but despite a lack of new, blockbuster software, Sony's latest machine has remained at the top of the hardware charts - and that was the case again last week. The only new PS4 title worth mentioning is Konami's fun looking baseball game, Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016, which sold through a healthy 101,981 copies on the current-gen system. In turn, PS4 sales actually spiked a little, jumping around 8000 units from the week prior.

Elsewhere, last week saw the release of Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness on PS3. After selling rather poorly on PS4, the delayed action role-playing title entered in sixth place on the last-gen console, shifting a meagre 20,027 copies. Nevertheless, this figure shows that there's still a market for PS3 games in Japan, as crazy as that might seem to us here in the West.

Hardware sales

  1. PlayStation 4 – 28,578 (20,589)
  2. New 3DS LL – 20,257 (13,917)
  3. PlayStation Vita – 20,168 (12,678)
  4. Wii U – 10,020 (5,968)
  5. New 3DS – 3,997 (3,268)
  6. PlayStation 3 – 1,560 (1,153)
  7. 3DS – 1,091 (939)
  8. 3DS LL – 233 (137)
  9. Xbox One – 100 (101)

Software sales

  1. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot (Nintendo, 04/29/16) – 144,846 (New)
  2. [PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 (Konami, 04/29/16) – 101,981 (New)
  3. [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 (Konami, 04/29/16) – 84,873 (New)
  4. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 (Konami, 04/29/16) – 56,477 (New)
  5. [3DS] Yo-kai Sangokushi (Level-5, 04/02/16) – 34,648 (464,886)
  6. [PS3] Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness (Square Enix, 04/29/16) – 20,027 (New)
  7. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (Square Enix, 03/24/16) – 14,780 (572,355)
  8. [PSV] One Piece: Burning Blood (Bandai Namco, 04/21/16) – 10,197 (42,880)
  9. [PS4] One Piece: Burning Blood (Bandai Namco, 04/21/16) – 9,898 (45,394)
  10. [Wii U] Super Mario Maker (Nintendo, 09/10/15) – 9,458 (861,427)
  11. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SIE, 03/19/15) – 8,991 (752,549)
  12. [Wii U] Splatoon (Nintendo, 05/28/15) – 8,826 (1,347,515)
  13. [PSV] Rose and the Old Castle of Twilight (NIS, 04/26/16) – 8,508 (New)
  14. [Wii U] Star Fox Zero / Star Fox Guard Double Pack (Nintendo, 04/21/16) – 7,694 (24,808)
  15. [PS4] Dark Souls III (Bandai Namco, 03/24/16) – 7,360 (282,269)
  16. [PSV] Bullet Girls 2 (D3 Publisher, 04/21/16) – 6,339 (23,562)
  17. [PSV] Eve: Burst Error R (El Dia, 04/28/16) – 5,699 (New)
  18. [3DS] Disney Art Academy (Nintendo, 04/07/16) – 5,155 (35,971)
  19. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo, 02/18/16) – 4,956 (149,273)
  20. [3DS] Terraria (Spike Chunsoft, 04/21/16) – 3,968 (11,219)

[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]