Vita was the headline casualty in Japan as game market sales fell heavily in the seven days following the nation's Golden Week holiday period.
Sales of Sony's latest portable slipped from 10,583 units to 6,340 during the week ended May 13, representing a new weekly low. Sales of the top-selling system, 3DS, almost halved to 46,425 units, Andriasang reports.On the software front Mario Party 9 remained the top seller, although weekly sales declined from 144,585 copies to just 37,353. The highest new entry was PS3 exclusive Starhawk, which debuted at No.4 with 12,873 sales.
Weekly hardware sales (previous week)

  1. 3DS: 46,425 (91,868)
  2. PS3: 12,996 (23,478)
  3. PSP: 12,247 (20,033)
  4. PSV: 6,340 (10,583)
  5. Wii: 6,073 (15,789)
  6. PS2: 1,212 (1,611)
  7. X360: 1,023 (1,420)
  8. DSi LL: 819 (1,097)
  9. DSi: 387 (814)

Weekly software sales (life to date)

  1. Mario Party 9 (Wii, Nintendo) 37,353 (334,821)
  2. Fire Emblem Awakening (3DS, Nintendo) 16,530 (361,790)
  3. Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City (PS3, Capcom) 14,553 (319,505)
  4. Starhawk (PS3, Sony) 12,873
  5. Super Mario 3D Land (3DS, Nintendo) 11,260 (1,574,788)
  6. Monster Hunter 3G (3DS, Capcom) 9,105 (1,442,475)
  7. Mario Kart 7 (3DS, Nintendo) 9,045 (1,704,350)
  8. Kid Icarus Uprising (3DS, Nintendo) 7,636 (269,519)
  9. Mario & Sonic at London Olympics (3DS, Nintendo) 4,933 (162,270)
  10. Conception Please Give Birth to My Children (PSP, Spike Chunsoft) 4,600 (44,639)

Announcing earlier this month that worldwide Vita sales stood at 1.8 million units as of March 31, 2012, Sony CEO Kaz Hirai said "software and services must be strengthened" if the company's to hit its annual targets for the handheld.

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