In what can not be considered a good thing, the Playstation 3 has posted it’s worst week of sales since it’s launch in Japan. The Media Create sales numbers for the week ending January 14th show an overall slump in sales all around, yet still paint an unflattering picture for the Playstation 3, showing sales at 25,531 units, not a particularly strong showing for console so recently launched. Nintendo Wii sales were also down, posting it’s second-worst week of sales since it’s launch, with 93,708 units sold, though it’s unclear if anyone can consider selling almost 100,000 units a week a bad thing. Media Create takes sales data from around 3,000 retail stores across Japan, extrapolating them into national sales estimates.

See the Japanese software sales charts for the week ending January 14th after the jump..

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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

Video game sales have always been a hot topic in the gaming world. In the past, many players’ data came from vague and un-confirmed forum or blog postings as well as chatter along the highly-organized video game grapevine. Thankfully there’s no more need in relying on your pizza guy’s interpretation of video games sales charts. For the past 4 years, VGCharts have been collecting video game sales data and organizing it into the internet’s premier source for video game sales charts on the internet. Sales information goes back into the Nintendo 64 days and covers pretty much all of the major sales territories. Sales data are constantly being acquired, so expect many more updates in the near future, including the addition of Sega Saturn sales information.

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