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The sale of Sony’s newest handheld, the PlayStation Vita, really took off in Japan following the release of Sega’s Hatsune Miku Project Diva F. Sega’s newest rhythm game from sold 158,009 units during its first week while Vita hardware sales more than quadrupled to 46,877 units.

The week also plenty of new releases as well: Devil Summoner Soul Hackers sold 73,690 units and Senran Kagura Burst sold 70,569 units.

Below is the full list of the Enterbrain software chart from August 27 through September 2, as reported by Famitsu.com. The release date, publisher and life-to-date sales are in parentheses.

• [PSV] 01. Hatsune Miku Project Diva F (Sega, 08.30.2012): 158,009 (NEW)
• [3DS] 02. Devil Summoner Soul Hackers (Atlus, 08.30.2012): 73,690 (NEW)
• [3DS] 03. Senran Kagura Burst (MAQL, 08.30.2012): 70,569 (NEW)
• [3DS] 04. New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo, 07.28.2012): 55,028 (1,068,878)
• [PS3] 05. Neptune V (Compile Hearts, 08.30.2012): 35,670 (NEW)
• [PSP] 06. Gundam Age (Namco Bandai, 08.30.2012): 32,782 (NEW)
• [PS3] 07. Aqua Pazza (Aqua Plus, 08.30.2012): 28,806 (NEW)
• [PS3] 08. Sengoku Basara HD Collection (Capcom, 08.30.2012): 27,551 (NEW)
• [NDS] 09. Pokemon Black & White 2 (Pokemon, 06.23.2012): 27,198 (2,692,626)
• [PSP] 10. Rurouni Kenshin (Namco Bandai, 08.30.2012): 16,610 (NEW)
• [WII] 11. Dragon Quest X (Square Enix, 08.02.2012): 13,616 (570,365)
• [3DS] 12. Run For Money: Flee From the Strongest Hunters in History (Namco Bandai, 07.05.2012): 11,879 (108,643)
• [3DS] 13. Taiko Drum Master Chibi Dragon and the Mysterious Orb (Bamco Nandai, 07.12.2012): 10,860 (194,260)
• [WII] 14. Just Dance Wii 2 (Nintendo, 07.26.2012): 10,599 (160,527)
• [3DS] 15. Kobito Zukan Kobito Kansatsu Set (Columbia, 07.26.2012): 10,576 (82,188)
• [3DS] 16. Demon Training (Nintendo, 07.28.2012): 10,567 (142,593)
• [PSP] 17. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (5pb., 08.30.2012): 9,830 (NEW)
• [3DS] 18. Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 12.10.2011): 7,080 (1,541,209)
• [WII] 19. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, 06.25.2009): 7,050 (2,985,612)
• [PSP] 20. Genroh (Idea Factory, 08.30.2012): 6,473 (NEW)
• [WII] 21. Kirby 20th Anniversary Special Collection (Nintendo, 07.19.2012): 5,403 (183,430)
• [WII] 22. Mario Party 9 (Nintendo, 04.26.2012): 5,167 (531,545)
• [PS3] 23. Spec Ops The Line (Take-2, 08.30.2012): 5,155 (NEW)
• [WII] 24. Taiko Drum Master Wii Ultimate Version (Namco Bandai, 11.23.2011): 5,031 (284,286)
• [PSP] 25. Custom Drive (D3 Publisher, 08.30.2012): 5,018 (NEW)
• [3DS] 26. Little Battler eXperience Baku Boost (Level-5, 07.05.2012): 4,969 (129,311)
• [PSP] 27. Kuroko’s Basketball (Namco Bandai, 09.09.2012): 4,748 (58,715)
• [PS3] 28. Persona 4 Arena (Atlus, 07.26.2012): 4,316 (163,425)
• [3DS] 29. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12.01.2011): 4,118 (1,795,180)
• [PSP] 30. Bakemonogatari Portable (Namco Bandai, 07.28.2012): 3,966 (38,479)

Here’s Enterbrain’s hardware chart covering 08.27.2012 to 09.02.2012. Last week’s sales are in parentheses.

• Nintendo 3DS: 67,926 (64,921)
• PlayStation Vita: 46,877 (9,751)
• PlayStation 3: 12,846 (12,243)
• PlayStation Portable: 10,918 (10,676)
• Wii: 8,038 (8,476)
• Xbox 360: 525 (563)
• PlayStation 2: 411 (439)
• Nintendo DSi: 279 (311)                   

(Via Adriasang)