Super Mario 3D Land becomes the best-selling 3D Mario game for its first week, while the 3DS surges...

Mario has landed in Japan. The latest Media Create charts (via Andriasang) and it brings more than a bit of nostalgia for the DS-domination days. Super Mario 3D Land was of course the headline release, and it managed to beat out the first week sales of every preceding 3D Mario platformer - just slightly taking the crown from Super Mario Galaxy 2.

The full top-20 for the week of October 31st to November 6th, along with life-to-date figures, is as follows.

01. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo): 343,492 (NEW)
02. [PS3] Uncharted 3 (Sony): 124,989 (NEW)
03. [PS3] Battlefield 3 (EA): 123,379 (NEW)
04. [PSP] Final Fantasy Type-0 (Square-Enix): 122,286 (594,540)
05. [WII] Kirby Wii (Nintendo): 55,779 (192,589)
06. [PSP] Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami): 45,437 (NEW)
07. [3DS] Slime Mori Mori Dragon Quest 3 (Square Enix): 38,859 (NEW)
08. [360] Battlefield 3 (EA): 27,723 (NEW)
09. [WII] Just Dance Wii (Nintendo): 25,665 (189,116)
10. [WII] Go Vacation (Namco Bandai): 16,995 (89,463)
11. [WII] Winning Eleven Play Maker 2012 (Konami): 14,117 (NEW)
12. [WII] Wii Sports Resort Wiiplus Pack (Nintendo): 12,570 (638,091)
13. [PS3] Idolmaster 2 (Namco Bandai): 10,721 (76,233)
14. [PS3] Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami): 10,636 (381,156)
15. [PS2] Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami): 9,786 (NEW)
16. [PSP] AKB1/48 If I Loved an Idol in Guam (Namco Bandai): 8,883 (310,625)
17. [WII] Minna no Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo): 8,581 (535,523)
18. [PS3] Macross F Sayonara no Tsubasa Hybrid Pack (Namco Bandai): 8,352 (167,700)
19. [PSP] Naruto Narutimate Impact (Namco Bandai): 7,144 (72,374)
20. [3DS] Model Fashion Audition 2 (Alchemist): 6,643

Despite a slew on new releases across most platforms, it was only the 3DS which saw a big shift in hardware sales compared to last week, and shift it most certainly did:

1. 3DS: 145,271 (65,041)
2. PSP: 27,952 (30,605)
3. PS3: 26,966 (25,217)
4. Wii: 11,725 (11,784)
5. DSi LL: 2,041 (2,009)
6. X360: 1,699 (1,704)
7. PS2: 1,457 (1,228)
8. DSi: 1,057 (1,061)
9. DS Lite: 33 (55)

Total Japanese sales for 3DS hardware now stand at just under 2.4 million.

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Looks like Mario 3D Land won't be a MAJOR flop, so we don't need to talk about it.

Wii software #'s are not that bad.

Man, I so did not see 145k coming.
Go MARIO!!

3DS will do wonders this holiday now that it actually has quality NEW software as well as a really good price point.

UC3 and BF3 did pretty well too... maybe the Japanese are finally starting to warm up to western shooters since they now dominate the console industry.

Yeah, that's quite an improvement over the opening for Uncharted 1 or 2. Hopefully that means they'll start making more shooters themselves. I could use more stuff like Vanquish in my life!

Unexpected ans impressive numbers! :)

What a surprise. I didn't expect SM3DLand to pull those numbers. And wow with the hardware! Very impressive.

There's an older thread for this: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=136468&page=1#48