Its January, and are down - the games suffering a spot of new year gloom while also contending with the global financial 'thing'.

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Still, we have the latest sales figures from Japan, and while the numbers are much lower than during December, the maintained it's lead in last week's sales.

Nintendo's new handheld shifted nearly 52,000 units, while the managed 38,000 compared to the Wii's 27,000. The was fourth with less that 18,000, followed by the Lite with less than 14,000.

The makes it onto the chart in the penultimate position, with sales of nearly 8,000. The was last with over 5,000 units sold. More on all this soon.

By Luke Guttridge