From what I understand, the second week of the game topped the sales at around 125K, which is considerably lower than the record-breaking opening week, but not totally terrible. I still do expect this game to shatter the 1 million mark either way though.

This is a bit surprising, I wonder why they would do this.

Obon. It's a Japanese holiday this week.

@Jtuner

Its opening week was record breaking?

On topic:

I believe "THE SOURCE" predicted sales from 50-80k for the upcoming japan sales

Monester Hunter Portable is a greatest hits type game in Japan - highly discounted, from my understanding.  So this store is currently selling MH3 for a greatest hits type price?

Yes.

Some lad from NeoGaf is reporting the same thing, in fact he typed the whole list of discounted products:

Some interesting price commentary at Hatimaki:
http://hatimaki.blog110.fc2.com/blog-entry-1321.html

Bic Camera online is selling the following!
Monster Hunter 2980 yen (59% off)
Gears of War 2 LE 4980 yen (46% off)
KOF13 3980 yen (44% off)
Magna Carta 2 4980 yen (40% off)
Blood of Bahamut 2980 yen (50% off)

Limited to one per person.

Didn't know you were still around. How was the crow BTW?

Obon, fellas. Did anyone read my post?

It's a special holiday in most of Japan right now.

Nothing to do with Obon, only select articles were discounted - it's possibly a clearance sale.