Media Create has released the Japanese hardware and software sales for the week of December 15 through December 25. Needless to say, the Nintendo DS has performed beyond expectations, selling more units than all other hardware combined. In this one week period, the Nintendo DS managed to rack up sales of nearly 600,000, double its sales the week prior. The strong sales are attributed to a diverse selection of software including Animal Crossing: Wild World and Mario Kart DS.
    Hardware Sales
  1. Nintendo DS - 597,628
  2. Sony PSP - 161,332
  3. PlayStation 2 - 97,475
  4. Nintendo GameCube - 36,646
  5. Game Boy Advance SP - 35,764
  6. Game Boy micro - 19,261
  7. Microsoft Xbox 360 - 5,674
  8. Game Boy Advance - 906
  9. Microsoft Xbox - 141
    Software Sales
  1. PS2 - Kingdom Hearts II (Square Enix) - 727,591
  2. NDS - Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo) - 416,132
  3. NDS - Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) - 302,742
  4. PS2 - Naruto: Narultimate Hero 3 (Bandai) - 216,966
  5. NDS - Pokemon Dungeon: Blue Force (Pokemon) - 157,786
  6. GBA - Pokemon Dungeon: Red Force (Pokemon) - 156,430
  7. NDS - Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop! (Bandai) - 156,181
  8. PS2 - Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence (Konami) - 103,894
  9. GCN - Mario Party 7 (Nintendo) - 100,130
  10. NDS - DS Training Adults: Work Your Brain (Nintendo) - 93,240

Gaming-Age Forum member Culex has put his Microsoft Excel skills to use in order to manifest this very cool graph detailing compared hardware sales between the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS since their respective launches. The graph even explains why the particular spikes in sales occur.

Nintendo DS and Sony PSP hardware sales comparisons

Nintendo may as well be printing out its own currency.

Satoru Iwata Dollar

Shigeru Miyamoto Dollar

Reggie Fils-Aime Dollar

Thanks to clearacell from the MozLaPunk forums for the dolla' images.