The has been Japan's best-selling games console for some weeks anyway, but last week's result really was a land-slide, the release of Dragon Quest IX pushing of the console through the roof.

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The final total for the week in question was nearly 97,000, an ocean ahead of the PSP, which was second with just over 24,000 sales.

In third place there is the console with over 20,000 - followed by the Lite with nearly 10,000.

The didn't enjoy quite as good a week, languishing with less than 9,000 sales - the on just over 3,000 - the resuming (bad) business as usual with less than 3,000 units sold during the same week.

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By Luke Guttridge