After a long sabbatical, the Japanese hardware sales have returned! Well, people in Japan have continued purchasing game systems week after week, it's just that we've now stopped ignoring them. It would be more accurate to say then, that our weekly sales chart has finally come bursting through the office door, eliciting admiration both for its fine holiday tan and renewed work drive.

It returns to a strange new world, one where the PSP has managed to best the DS Lite (again) and, perhaps more disturbingly, where glorified spread sheets become personified and go on vacation. We used to be able to make sense of all this. Perhaps you could be kind enough to leave some suggestions in the comments? Tell us how you'd like us to improve this weekly feature, be it through moar statz or fewer words.

- Wii: 94,473 19,929 (26.73%)
- PSP: 72,528 5,405 (6.94%)
- DS Lite: 67,472 11,898 (14.99%)
- PS3: 41,796 7,433 (21.63%)
- PS2: 12,115 751 (6.61%)
- Xbox 360: 6,060 1,764 (41.06%)

[Source: Media Create]

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