Well Im glad nobody expected that it would right? I mean NOBODY, Well maybe except for me..... Oh wait No I didnt either. At least 3DS is beating everything else combined by over 77%. Its the only thing that can actually get soooo many million sellers!

Too bad for a measly YoY decline, Oh well its still the 2nd fastest selling System ever in japan. It'll also be up YoY in the last quarter of the year by a huge margin

Agreed.  A console in Japan would want to be getting at least 15k a week for us to say it's doing good. 

Question not specifically aimed at you: Did MH: 4G really get a review of 60? That's what it said in the chart. 

You can't sell what it's not shipped.

Does it matter? What's wrong with a console starting to slow down in Japan after selling 15 million units? DS was in a state of constant decline in Japan starting in December 2006, barely two years after its launch -- by which point it had sold about 14 million units. By the time its fourth birthday rolls around, the 3DS will be one of the top 7 best-selling platforms of all time in Japan. It's natural for its hardware sales to be falling, as most of the market has already bought one.

Above average?...

No lies said here lol

Yeah Splatoon doesn't look interesting to anyone actually, maybe except Nintendo fans who love colourful and cartoony games.

Bayonetta 2 though is definitely interesting, and its one of the games I'll be getting it along with a Wii U next year, after a price drop.

Well, it still dropped 46% from last year and that decline will increase as the weeks go by.

1. Like i previously said nobody expected it to (N3DS+XL to stop YoY decline). Meaning your post was unnecessary.

2. Its not going to increase, 2014>2013 final quarter for the 3ds.

When im right about #2, of course your going to ignore it and go right back to yearly decline XD

The old 3DS LL is destroying the mighty market leader PS4. What a shame.
Wii U in the underworld. Vita continues its way to where it came. Xbox One with almost one sale.

I feel like ranting about these hardware numbers.

Vita is now dying in the only market it actually did decently in. Not good. XBox One is pathetic here, I mean seriously, wasted effort by Microsoft which everyone should have seen coming.

PS4 got through the summer decently enough. It should permanently beat WiiU when it actually has some games for the Japanese market, but then still it won't come in sniffing distance of the PS3 in lifetime sales. Needless to say, neither will WiiU. Which isn't doing as bad it was during summer last year up until the holidays, but still pretty bad.

3DS is the only thing to really be positive about here. It's a good enough week regardless, but if it's really still supply constrained then that's a good sign. Hopefully it'll keep a high baseline for a while.