Dark Souls II remaster is Japanese #1

From Software's brutal Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin has entered the Japanese software chart at number one with almost 20,500 copies sold. The game is a remaster of the March 2014 release for PlayStation 3.

It was the only new entry in the top 20 this week.

1. [PS4] Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin - 20,494 (New entry)
2. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku Hen - 15,394 (Lifetime sales - 136,613)
3. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku Hen - 14,582 (123,783)
4. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition - 11,842 (84,942)
5. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 - 10,777 (130,285)

In hardware PlayStation 4 sales fell by 8,853 on last week but the console still retained the top seller title, closely followed by the PlayStation Vita at two.

1. PlayStation 4 - 17,885 (Last week - 26,738)
2. PlayStation Vita - 17,517 (21,584)
3. New 3DS XL - 16,955 (22,183)
4. Wii U - 6,654 (7,486)
5. New 3DS - 6,222 (8,242)
6. PlayStation 3 - 4,221 (5,743)
7. 3DS XL - 1,986 (2,256)
8. 3DS - 1,678 (1,893)
9. PlayStation Vita TV - 511 (672)
10. Xbox One - 238 (902)

Charts collated by Media Create and published by Gematsu.