Just as we were starting to get comfortable with the DS coming in third consistently on the Japanese hardware charts, Metal Gear Solid 4 came out and helped push our favorite handheld down to fourth. Fourth! Meaning, it only did better than the PS2 and 360. Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!DS hardware did get a little boost, though, despite the fact that not much new software made its way into the charts:
- Playstation 3: 75,311 (
64,455) - PSP: 64,675 (2,659)
- Wii: 45,564 (925)
- Nintendo DS: 39,201 (4,181)
- PlayStation 2: 7,297 (1,018)
- Xbox 360: 2,163 (
117)
We're crying for Namco Bandai's 
Two DS games debuted in the top ten this week (
We realized today that we don't know Japan as well as we thought we did. With our reasoning, a new 
Not only did the PSP gain momentum with the hideous brown, er, we mean 
In a strange turn of events, there's only one new DS game in Japan's top thirty this week, and that's 
Sony dominated the first (and last) five in the top thirty software chart, but aside from that, everything else was Nintendo. The DS had fifteen games to represent it, but even if you added up the sales numbers for all those games, the total wouldn't come close to what 
The PSP might have dominated in Japan, selling as much hardware last week as every other system 
Last week was the week of new releases! Anticipating high holiday sales, many publishers made sure to release their games last week, with a total of fifteen ending up in the top thirty (seven of those being DS titles). With this slew of new releases, though, a lot of games were bumped off the chart to make room. 
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