There was over 19million ps3 software sold before now it's just over 18 million with this weeks numbers

I believe the x360 had an attach rate of over 5 and now it's less

anyone else notice this? or notice if there were adjustmest for wii ds or psp?

Numbers are back up again. 

wow I thought someone would have made a comment over 1 million ps3 games or over 5% of the total in Japan just gone
sorry I don't know the other numbers

Yes I've noticed that, I know for sure that ioi is not counting "The Best" version of MGS4, Demon's Souls and Minna No Golf Portable 2 on PSP, so maybe he's trying a new thing? But then again he is counting it on other games so I'm not sure. Maybe he just stopped tracking them, it happens with a lot of trackers - famitsu, gfk, mc, npd - they all stop tracking certain games after a certain time. I can't be bothered to check other games numbers, but if you'd like you can check out famitsu numbers here:

http://www.geocities.jp/v7160c_l5/index.html
http://www.japan-gamecharts.com/

More often than not the 1st link has the most up to date numbers but sometimes that's not the case.

BTW, these are the Famitsu numbers on those 3 games I told you:

MGS4 - 706,461 + 84193 The Best = 790654
Demon's Souls - 166,327 + 22,928 The Best = 189255
Minna no Golf Portable 2 - 287.296 + 71,823 The Best = 359119

On further checking I think he definitely just stopped tracking some games, it must be expensive to track all these games....

Famitsu LTD numbers as of 2010/03/28:

DS Software Top 15
01. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 5775092
02. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (Pokemon) - 5767283
03. Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo) - 5134724
04. Brain Age 2 (Nintendo) - 5050713
05. Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix) - 4150667
06. Brain Age (Nintendo) - 3821387
07. Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver (Pokemon) - 3663655
08. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) - 3611630
09. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo) - 3085838
10. Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon) - 2539431
11. English Training (Nintendo) - 2192557
12. Nintendogs (Nintendo) - 1944674
13. Mario Party DS (Nintendo) - 1941735
14. Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo) - 1850370
15. Big Brain Academy (Nintendo) - 1585330

PSP Software Top 15
01. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (Capcom) - 2453132
02. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (Capcom) - 1723187
03. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (Best) (Capcom) - 1111876
04. Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 902398
05. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix) - 809825
06. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Square Enix) - 720470
07. Monster Hunter Freedom (Capcom) - 668964
08. Phantasy Star Portable (Sega) - 636973
09. God Eater (Bandai Namco Games) - 572372
10. Phantasy Star Portable 2 (Sega) - 569351
11. Gundam vs. Gundam (Bandai Namco Games) - 415891
12. Hot Shots Gold: Open Tee (SCEJ) - 399257
13. Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus (Bandai Namco Games) - 392514
14. Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce (Koei) - 384336
15. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 (Konami) - 362087

Wii Software Top 15
01. Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 3634806
02. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 3587755
03. Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 3560889
04. Wii Play (Nintendo) - 2776759
05. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 2607839
06. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) - 1924424
07. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) - 1822725
08. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) - 1787860
09. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) - 1396911
10. Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) - 1215828
11. Monster Hunter 3 (Capcom) - 1016812
12. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) - 977178
13. Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo) - 647130
14. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Bandai Namco Games) - 646709
15. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 594157

PS3 Software Top 15
01. Final Fantasy 13 (Square Enix) - 1881972
02. Metal Gear Solid 4 (Konami) - 706461
03. Resident Evil 5 (Capcom) - 520480
04. Yakuza 3 (Sega) - 509306
05. Yakuza 4 (Sega) - 480626
06. Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (Konami) - 427621
07. Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds (SCEJ) - 410052
08. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami) - 405653
09. Hokuto Musou (Koei) - 385551
10. Dynasty Warriors 6 (Koei) - 371443
11. Tales of Vesperia (Bandai Namco Games) - 362359
12. White Knight Chronicles (SCEJ) - 339690
13. Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 (Bandai Namco Games) - 328167
14. Dynasty Warriors: Gundam (Bandai Namco Games) - 317580
15. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Konami) - 316533

360 Software Top 15
01. Star Ocean 4 (Square Enix) - 208521
02. Tales of Vesperia (Bandai Namco Games) - 204305
03. Blue Dragon (Microsoft) - 203740
04. The Last Remnant (Square Enix) - 154493
05. Ace Combat 6 (Platinum) (Bandai Namco Games) - 143283
06. Resident Evil 5 (Capcom) - 123817
07. Beautiful Katamari (Platinum) (Bandai Namco Games) - 115658
08. Infinite Undiscovery (Square Enix) - 113195
09. Lost Odyssey (Microsoft) - 109517
10. Dead or Alive 4 (Tecmo) - 108618
11. Viva Pinata (Platinum) (Microsoft) - 101552
12. Forza Motorsport 2 (Platinum) (Microsoft) - 100591
13. Ace Combat 6 (Bandai Namco Games) - 95002
14. Bayonetta (Sega) - 90052
15. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Square Enix) - 86904

Check out ToV for both PS3 and 360 for example

thank you very much

just was thinking though it's one thing to stop traking it's another to have over tracked and then cut them back.  Although the two can well be related if he were to just do estimates for smaller titles he stoped tracking and then find that things were wrong. 

this is stupid... or i dont understand

Sales for some games in Japan have been cut off.
For example, games that might have been released over there in January and had their sales tracked only show the first 4 weeks.

From the looks of it, they've stopped tracking when games drop below ~3k, and this seems to have been applied retroactively, going back about a year.  Also, possibly unrelated, but the weeks for a lot of games are screwed up.  Maybe they are indicating since a certain re-release.

It look's like it has been adjusted up again.

I'm sure Japan is hard to track. But then again we have Famitsu and Media Create so we could always use them when in doubt...