• Posted May 17th, 2012 at 11:37 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Golden Week is over in Japan, and as you might have expected game sales have tapered off pretty substantially, with PlayStation Vita posting the biggest decline as sales dip to around 6,000.

Sony’s new handheld sold 6,340 during the period ended May 13, marking its lowest weekly effort to date. Elsewhere, 3DS also suffered a noticeable drop, with sales sliding to 46,425 – still enough to put it at the top of the pile, however.

Over on the software front, PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter Starhawk made its debut at four with just over 12,800 units sold in its first week. Mario Party 9 and Fire Emblem Awakening claimed the top two positions, with Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City nabbing third place.

See below for the full hardware/software round-up.

HARDWARE

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

SOFTWARE

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

via Andriasang