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Nintendo mascot 's extraterrestrial exploits score big again Ghost Trick, Xenoblade, PS3 Grand Theft Auto: Episodes also cracked the top five, as the DSi XL easily tops hardware charts.

While the Japanese sales charts often highlight games and series that are cherished overseas but largely overlooked in the West, they can also underscore just how broad the appeal for other franchises can be. For example, the popularity of Nintendo's Mario is international, and in the case of his latest adventure, intergalactic.

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Super Mario Galaxy 2 topped Media Create's Japanese sales charts again for June 14-20, its fourth week of release. While the 52,978 copies it sold over that stretch were a far cry from the nearly 340,000 sold in its debut week, the game still topped the week's charts handily. Super Mario Galaxy 2 more than doubled the sales total of the second-best-selling game, Capcom's supernatural DS adventure game, Ghost Trick.

t Mario Wasn "only cross-cultural success in a week. On the fifth spot, Take-Two Interactive 's Grand Theft Auto: episodes of Liberty City was a week' s best-selling games for the system of non-Nintendo. Compilations previously Xbox 360 exclusive add-ons for the open world crime game sold 20,682 copies, just shy of 20,810 sales posted Nintendo 's Wii RPG Xenoblade.

Nintendo has also been successful on the hardware front, DSi LL (known as DSi XL at international level) in a convenient ahead of all systems with 30,183 sold in a week. PSP was a distant second with 20,929 sold, barely edging out rivals in the package Wii, DSi, and PlayStation 3. Sony 's other PDA, PSP Go, continued to flounder, finishing in last place among all hardware platforms only 837 pieces.

JAPAN GAME SALES WEEK OF JUNE 14-20, 2010
Software:
Rank / Title / Publisher / Platform / Unit sales
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 / Nintendo / Wii / 52,978
2. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective / Capcom / DS / 23,977
3. Eigokoro Kyoushitsu DS / Nintendo / DS / 20,949
4. Xenoblade / Nintendo / Wii / 20,810
5. Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City / Take-Two / PS3 / 20,682
6. Tamagotchi no Pichi Pichi Omisecchi / Namco Bandai / DS / 17,401
7. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Aoki, a samurai is not Chousen / Konami / PS3 / 16055
8. Tomodachi Collection / Nintendo / DS / 13,953
9. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010: Aoki Samurai no Chousen / Konami / PSP / 13,250
10. Hakuouki: Junsouroku / Idea Factory / PS3 / 13,076

Hardware:
DSi LL - 30,183
PSP - 20,929
Wii - 19,045
DSi - 18,214
PS3 - 17175
DS Lite - 5126
Xbox 360 - 2,060
PS2 - 1,568
PSP Go - 837

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