Yes it’s that time again to delve into the minds of Japanese gamers. But really, we’re just looking at this past week’s software and hardware sales charts. Nintendo games in bold

ThisLast Week: Here are the belated charts for the last chart period, the new ones will be out tomorrow as usual but due to Xmas we did’nt get these until now. Dragon Quest rules the roost!

Charts inside
Software Sales (Dec 25 – Dec 31)

01. NDS – Dragon Quest Monsters Joker – 593,994
02. Wii – Wii Sports – 95,479 / 566,707
03. Wii – Wii Play – 83,487 / 522,810
04. NDS – Common Sense Training – 72,159 / 953,520
05. NDS – New Super Mario Bros. – 69,168 / 3,840,296
06. NDS – Brain Training 2 – 61,033 / 3,706,467
07. NDS – Pokmon Diamond – 56,222 / 2,385,450
08. PSP – Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops – 51,951 / 230,321
09. NDS – Animal Crossing Wild World – 50,248 / 3,748,915
10. PS2 – Seiken Densetsu 4 – 48,405 / 200,467

Hardware Sales (Dec 25 – Dec 31)

DSL 176,219
Wii 96,332
PS3 71,727
PSP 68,675
PS2 38,169
Xbox360 16,909
GBM 2,082
GBASP 1,743
GC 847
DS 102
GBA 51
Xbox 4

Source: Media Create