Sony's PSP Remaster series is off to a strong start with Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD.

The first HD Monster Hunter game (excluding Monster Hunter Frontier Online) is just a remastered version of a PSP game, but that's apparently good enough for many! Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD topped the sales charts in its first week, selling 287,829 units.

Media Create's software sales chart (as passed along today at 4Gamer) was packed with new PSP and PS3 releases. Coming in at second was Imageepoch's second self-published PSP game, Black Rock Shooter The Game. Below that were more familiar franchises: Gundam, Samurai Warriors, and Dynasty Warriors.

Here's the full software chart covering August 22 through August 28. Publisher, release date and life to date sales are in parentheses.

• [PS3] 1. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. (Capcom, 08.25.11): 287,829 NEW!
• [PSP] 2. Black Rock Shooter The Game (Imageepoch, 08.25.11): 105,277 NEW!
• [PSP] 3. Mobile Suit Gundam New Gihren's Ambition (Namco Bandai, 08.25.11): 75,611 NEW!
• [PS3] 4. Samurai Warriors 3 Empires (Tecmo Koei, 08.25.11): 70,254 NEW!
• [PSP] 5. Dynasty Warriors 7 Special (Tecmo Koei, 08.25.11): 25,308 NEW!
• [WII] 6. Everyone's Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo, 07.21.11): 25,063 (399,552)
• [PSP] 7. Monster Hunter Diary Poka Poka Felyne Village G (Capcom, 08.10.11): 23,151 (162,416)
• [NDS] 8. Atsumete! Kirby (Nintendo, 08.04.11): 18,901 (181,224)
• [N3DS] 9. Super Pokemon Rumble (Pokemon, 08.11.11): 15,764 (134,201)
• [N3DS] 10. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time 3D (Nintendo, 06.16.11): 13,423 (348,964)
• [WII] 11. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, 06.25.09): 12,760 (515,086)
• [NDS] 12. Suite Pretty Cure Melody Collection (Namco Bandai, 08.25.11): 12,567 NEW!
• [PSP] 13. Durarara!! 3way Standoff -alley- (Ascii, 08.25.11): 10,454 NEW!
• [PSP] 14. Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel: Toki to Sekai no Meikyuu (Alchemist, 08.25.11): 10,156 NEW!
• [PSP] 15. Toriko Gourmet Survival! (Namco Bandai, 08.04.11): 9,662 (118,213)
• [PSP] 16. Let's Make a J.League Pro Soccer Club! 7 Euro Plus (Sega, 08.04.11): 8,367 (157,407)
• [PSP] 17. Taiko Drum Master Portable DX (Deluxe) (Namco Bandai, 07.14.11): 8,028 (187,055)
• [PSP] 18. Persona 3 Portable PSP the Best (Atlus, 08.25.11): 7,176 NEW!
• [PS3] 19. Uncharted Ougontou to Kieta Sendan PlayStation 3 the Best (SCEJ, 08.25.11): 6,560 NEW!
• [NDS] 20. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, 09.18.10): 6,512 (5,293,428)

In hardware, the 3DS saw a major drop from last week, but continued to remain in first place. PS3 saw a slight boost, presumably due to Monster Hunter.

Here's the hardware chart covering 8/22 through 8/29. Last week's sales are in parentheses.

• 1. 3DS: 60,781 (105,639)
• 3. PS3: 33,141 (29,666)
• 2. PSP: 31,310 (40,888)
• 4. Wii: 11,342 (18,256)
• 5. DSi LL: 3,235 (4,329)
• 6. DSi: 2,384 (3,585)
• 7. PS2: 1,580 (1,789)
• 8. X360: 1,393 (1,427)
• 9. DS Lite: 110 (117)
• 10. PSP go: 20 (13)