New Super Mario Bros. Beats Out Valkyria Chronicles 2 In Japan

After giving up the first place spot to Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep for a couple weeks, Nintendo’s New Super Mario Bros. Wii returns to the top of the weekly Media Create sales charts.

It was still a pretty good week for PSP software, however, with Sega’s Valkyria Chronicles debuting in second place with 94,000 copies sold, followed by Namco Bandai’s Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s Portable: The Battle of Aces. Kingdom Hearts and Monster Hunter helped the PlayStation Portable snag four of the top ten spots, the rest occupied by Wii and DS software.

Valkyria Chronicles 2 debut, by the way, was better than that of its PlayStation 3 predecessor. While the Japanese install base for each PlayStation platform was markedly different for each game’s release, I wouldn’t be surprised to see future Valkyria games sticking to a handheld platform.

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Here are the top thirty games in Japan, according to Media Create, for the week of January 18 to 24.

01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) – 111,000 / 3,117,000

02. Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP) – 94,000 / NEW

03. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s Portable: The Battle of Aces (PSP) – 76,000 / NEW

04. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (PSP) – 60,000 / 683,000

05. Tomodachi Collection (DS) – 45,000 / 2,696,000

06. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) – 34,000 / 1,550,000

07. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii) – 23,000 / 96,000

08. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (the Best) – 16,000 / 102,000

09. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 16,000 / 1,707,000

10. Inazuma Eleven 2: Fire / Blizzard (DS) – 14,000 / 1,047,000