Capcom’s
Sengoku Basara 3 for PS3 debuted at the number one video game software sales spot in Japan for the week ended August 1, with Sega's
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2 following close behind at the number two spot.
Tracking firm Media Create revealed Thursday that the PS3 version of
Sengoku Basara 3 sold 243,000 units in its first week, and the the Wii version of the game took the number five spot with 50,000 units.
Sengoku Basara 3 is a hack-and-slash brawler featuring major figures from Japanese history in an exaggerated anime style. The first game in the series was released in North America as
Devil Kings for the PlayStation 2, and
Sengoku Basara 3 will be released in the West as
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes later this year.
Sega’s anime-based rhythm game
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2 on PSP made a strong debut, reaching the number two spot with 241,000 units.
Other new titles, such as
Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride Card Battle Taisen on DS,
Metal Max 3 on DS, and
Ys Vs. Sora no Kiseki: Alternative Saga on PSP, also landed in the top 10 this week.
Last week’s top game,
Wii Party, fell to the number three spot in the wake of the new releases, and several titles, including
Super Mario Galaxy 2 and
Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory, dropped from the top 10 altogether.
Below are Media Create's rankings for the week ended August 1, 2010:
| LW | TW | Title | Publisher | Platform | Weekly Sales |
| NEW | 1 | Sengoku Basara 3 | Capcom | PS3 | 243,000 |
| NEW | 2 | Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2 | Sega | PSP | 241,000 |
| 1 | 3 | Wii Party | Nintendo | Wii | 83,000 |
| NEW | 4 | Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride Card Battle Taisen | Bandai Namco | DS | 64,000 |
| NEW | 5 | Sengoku Basara 3 | Capcom | Wii | 50,000 |
| NEW | 6 | Metal Max 3 | Kadokawa Shoten | DS | 47,000 |
| 3 | 7 | Inazuma Eleven 3: World Challenge!! Spark / Bomber | Level 5 | DS | 34,000 |
| NEW | 8 | Ys Vs. Sora no Kiseki: Alternative Saga | Nihon Falcom | PSP | 30,000 |
| 6 | 9 | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 | Konami | PSP | 22,000 |
| 4 | 10 | Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem - Hero of Light and Shadow | Nintendo | DS | 21,000 |
