Media Create’s Japanese sales tracking for the week ending August 7 show the 3DS taking an expected downturn, a chart dominated by summer fun, and the PS3 looking very quiet indeed.

Sports cash in on summer vibes

Rhythm Heaven has toppled from the top spot on the charts, which it held for two weeks running, replaced by PSP title J-League Pro Soccer Club! 7: Euro +. Nevertheless, the Wii retained a strong presence in the charts, helped along by the long-delayed release of Epic Mickey, entering at number six.

Nintendo and Namco Bandai both had good weeks, with each nabbing five charters each – half the charts divided between two publishers.

New releases really shook up the summer charts, with Kirby Mass Attack at number two, Toriko: Gourmet Survival at three, All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation at five, and Family Fishing # at six.

RPGs had an underwhelming presence, as Devil Survivor 2 dropped off notably from last week, and Half Minute Hero 2 struggling at 17 in its first week. The more traditional JRPG fare of Elminage III: Ankoku no Shito to Yaiyou no Kyuuden managed a little better at 16.

Sports-themed games, on the other hand, charted strongly, with Family Fishing, Wii Sports Resort, two versions of Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011, and Inazuma Eleven Strikers following J-League’s lead.

By coincidence, the PSP version of Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011 and Inazuma Eleven Strikers on Wii both reported identical sales. Huh.

Subscribe to the VG247 newsletter Get all the best bits of VG247 delivered to your inbox every Friday! Enable JavaScript to sign up to our newsletter

Below you’ll find Media Create’s top 20 sales chart for the week ending August 7, 2011. Last week’s figures can be found here.

J-League Pro Soccer Club! 7: Euro + (PSP) – 101,022 (new) Kirby Mass Attack(DS) – 74,915 (new) Toriko: Gourmet Survival (PSP) – 62,882 (new) Rhythm Heaven (Wii) – 62,597 All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation (DS) – 52,575 Epic Mickey (Wii) – 27,257 (new) Family Fishing # (Wii) – 22,365 (new) Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus (Wii) – 18,945 (new) Taiko Drum Master Portable DX (PSP) – 14,872 Devil Survivor 2 (DS) 12,904 StormLover Karen!! # (PSP) – 12,477 (new) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (PS3) – 12,467 Queen’s Gate: Spiral Chaos # (PSP) – 12,445 Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011 (PSP) – 12,369 Inazuma Eleven Strikers (Wii) – 12,369 Elminage III: Ankoku no Shito to Yaiyou no Kyuuden (PSP) – 11,954 (new) Half-Minute Hero Second (PSP) – 10,991 (new) Sengoku Basara: Chronicle Heroes (PSP) – 10,374 Wii Play: Motion (Wii) 8,925 Puyo Puyo! 20th Anniversary # (DS) – 8,748

3DS sales down 75 percent

The announcement of a price cut for the 3DS predictably killed sales of the console, although second hand sales – which entitle the user to entry into the 3DS Ambassador Program – are reportedly through the roof. The 3DS dropped off to a quarter of last week’s sales, shamefully overlapped by the DSi LL (XL) and very nearly pipped by the bog-standard DSi. 3DS sales life to date in Japan have now reached 1,310,288.

Otherwise, the charts stayed reasonably static, with the PSP churning out it’s usual 30,000 plus sales, and the PS3 and Wii remaining strong. The former saw a minor dip easily accountable by a release drought; only one PS3 game broke the top 20 this week.

Japanese hardware sales, August 01 – August 07, 2011 (separate SKUs)

Software top 20 chart offerings per system PSP – 9

WII – 6

NDS – 4

PS3 – 1

PSP – 35,619

PS3 – 18,338

Wii – 17,004

DSi LL – 4,176

3DS – 4,132

DSi – 3,900

PS2 – 1,529

Xbox 360 – 1,406

DSL – 102

Thanks, Neogaf.