The recently released Japanese sales charts for hardware and software sales have been released and it shows Nintendo having amazing week. The software sales charts treat us to a unique sight this week, with the top ten titles in sales belonging all to the same platform, the Nintento DS handheld. Unless the same happened with the NES (which it probably did, but there aren’t sales charts available) this is the first time one platform holder has dominated the top 10 software sales charts. As much as everyone likes to bash Nintendo, I can see great things for the Wii over in Japan (and in the west!), with the gaming market maturing and PC gaming slowly dying, the market for pick up and play, casual AND entertaining games are on the rise and the DS sales only prove this. Wii60 FTW!

01 NDS Final Fantasy III – 503,051 / NEW
02 NDS New Super Mario Bros. – 65,556 / 2,901,264
03 NDS Rune Factory – 42,210 / NEW
04 NDS Brain Training 2 – 41,784 / 3,073,195
05 NDS DS Cookbook – 37,326 / 384,045
06 NDS Tamagotchi 2 – 30,504 / 430,934
07 NDS Mario Hoops 3on3 – 30,355 / 233,762
08 NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World – 30,023 / 3,149,130
09 NDS Brain Training – 22,866 / 2,736,150
10 NDS English Training DS – 17,465 / 1,401,669