Nintendo has handheld market locked.

3DS is an impressive beast man im speechless.

Will end the year with 10m sold LT in Japan.

Wow i can see it outselling DS :o

i'd say 3ds and wiiu will out sell Wii by end of next yr.

Does this refer to the fact that DS hasn't sold as much as PS2 (and probably never will if Sony keep releasing this massive sales numbers) because apparenlty is still selling milions in poor markets?

Don't let it bother you too much.  

There were plenty of Nintendo fans in thNPD thread, if I do remember correctly.  Me personally, visit sales threads anymore unless from NPD, MediaCreate, Famitsu, etc.  We get official numbers so infrequently for EU that people are just better off waiting for shipment numbers. And Sony fans haven't been in the Japan numbers thread for a long time.  Seriously, look at the thread for Miku launch and again the following week, it was a mass exodus with only a few people popping in every week or so.  so it goes both ways.

Why would something like this bother me?  Its more of an obersavtion on my part hince why I made the statement when I did.  I can easily see the same people claiming Japan = the world when its clearly not the case.  And sony fans have been in the Famitsu threads, that why they grow to be as large as they are (especially if people claim that this site is pro Sony).  Thats why its best to get a complete picture, so that the fandom can be toned down a bit.

3DS will. 

Wii U ofc thats impossible.

Famitsu Sales: Week 51, 2012 (Dec 10 - Dec 16)

01./04. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) - 213.329 / 1.722.709 (+85%)
02./00. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone - Neppuu / Raimei (Level 5) {2012.12.13} (¥5.500) - 170.980 / NEW
03./01. [PS3] Yakuza 5 # (Sega) {2012.12.06} (¥8.800) - 86.640 / 450.357 (-76%)
04./03. [3DS] Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Nintendo) {2012.12.06} (¥4.800) - 79.063 / 209.072 (-39%)
05./02. [WIU] New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo) {2012.12.08} (¥5.985) - 75.750 / 246.313 (-56%)
06./07. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) - 75.645 / 1.569.996 (+44%)
07./08. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition # (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥5.040) - 51.890 / 203.426 (+6%)
08./10. [3DS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Magnagate and the Infinite Dungeon (Pokemon Co.) {2012.11.23} (¥4.800) - 42.202 / 245.142 (+22%)
09./06. [WIU] Nintendo Land (Nintendo) {2012.12.08} (¥4.935) - 41.887 / 120.348 (-47%)
10./00. [3DS] Toriko: Gourmet Monsters! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.12.13} (¥5.800) - 34.430 / NEW
11./00. [PS3] Romance of the Three Kingdoms 12 # (Koei Tecmo) {2012.12.13} (¥9.240) - 30.419 / NEW
12./05. [WIU] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate # (Capcom) {2012.12.08} (¥4.800) - 25.492 / 135.641 (-77%)
13./15. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) - 24.668 / 292.391 (+69%)
14./09. [3DS] Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney (Level 5) {2012.11.29} (¥5.980) - 22.718 / 193.619 (-36%)
15./12. [PS3] Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational # (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2012.11.22} (¥4.980) - 19.506 / 160.234 (-4%)
16./14. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) # (Capcom) {2012.11.15} (¥3.800) - 19.181 / 85.151 (+30%)
17./17. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters (Nintendo) {2012.09.27} (¥4.800) - 16.800 / 206.151 (+50%)
18./18. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.12} (¥5.040) - 16.156 / 306.764 (+68%)
19./22. [3DS] Kobito Zukan: Kobito Kansatsu Set (Nippon Columbia) {2012.07.26} (¥5.040) - 14.548 / 165.454 (+83%)
20./19. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 (Pokemon Co.) {2012.06.23} (¥4.800) - 13.856 / 2.840.324 (+54%)
21./21. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) - 13.703 / 1.862.169 (+66%)
22./20. [3DS] Aikatsu! Cinderella Lesson (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.15} (¥5.040) - 13.633 / 41.858 (+60%)
23./11. [PS3] 2nd Super Robot Wars OG # (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥8.379) - 13.026 / 245.228 (-49%)
24./00. [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012: Definitive Edition (Konami) {2012.12.13} (¥6.980) - 12.365 / NEW
25./25. [WII] Wii Sports Resort # (Nintendo) {2009.06.25} (¥4.800) - 12.121 / 3.058.817 (+78%)
26./13. [PS3] Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Subtitled Edition (Square Enix) {2012.11.22} (¥7.980) - 11.899 / 287.846 (-30%)
27./23. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land # (Nintendo) {2011.11.03} (¥4.800) - 11.696 / 1.745.529 (+63%)
28./27. [WII] Mario Party 9 (Nintendo) {2012.04.26} (¥5.800) - 11.320 / 589.179 (+76%)
29./00. [PS3] The Legend of Heroes: Sora no Kiseki FC Kai HD Edition (Nihon Falcom) {2012.12.13} (¥3.990) - 11.113 / NEW
30./00. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012: Definitive Edition (Konami) {2012.12.13} (¥5.250) - 9.786 / NEW

Top 30

3DS - 15
PS3 - 7
WII - 3
WIU - 3
NDS - 1
PSP - 1

3DS # 333.409
WIU 130.653
PS3 46.111
PSP # 28.779
PSV 13.590
WII 12.211
360 1.106
PS2 824
NDS # 197



And... seriously wtf ....
MC:
14./16. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) - 19.221 / 282.623 (+67%)
Famitsu:
13./15. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) - 24.668 / 292.391 (+69%)

wii U has a strong second week in japan. looks like japan will be its strongest region.

Sure, if you want to ignore that weekly PAL threads very rarely ever come with numbers. I read them every week, and ultimately it's just chart positions which doesn't tell us much.

We only get hard data when Nintendo unleash the charts once per quarter. How active are those threads?

Can the 3DS reach 10 million in Japan by year's end?