With now all but upon us, Japanese continued their steep overall climb in the week ending December 14th, however it was still the that leads the pack by a comfortable margin.

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During last week's pre-festive shopping splurge, sales of the new console topped 173,000, the far-off in second with 91,000.

In third place with 71,000 is the - still selling remarkably well compared to other markets - while the was a distant fourth with over 33,000.

The DS Lite was still in the race with 31,000, the penultimately arriving with 11,000. Last was the with 6,000.

By Luke Guttridge