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

This Week: Final Fantasy III suffers from major shortages, Tingle debuts and NSMB draws closer to that 3 million mark.

Software Sales (Aug 28th – Sept 3rd 2006)

01. PS2 Phantasy Star Universe 120,202 / NEW
02. NDS New Super Mario Bros. 72,763 / 2,974,027
03. NDS Brain Training 2 46,662 / 3,119,857
04. NDS Final Fantasy III 45,949 / 549,001
05. NDS Tingle RPG 45,496 / NEW
06. NDS Cooking Navi 35,689 / 419,733
07. NDS Mario Hoops 3-on-3 34,001 / 267,763
08. NDS Animal Crossing Wild World 32,605 / 3,181,735
09. GBA Rhythm Tengoku 28,361 / 123,432
10. NDS Tamagotchi 2 27,540 / 458,474

Hardware Sales (Aug 14th – 20th 2006)

Nintendo DS Lite – 228,939
PSP – 27,499
PS2 – 22,703
GBA SP – 2,751
Gameboy Micro – 1,791
Xbox 360 – 1,250
Gamecube – 855
Nintendo DS – 320
GBA – 22
Xbox – 0

Source: Media Create