Releases for next week:

[Vita] Little Big Planet

[3DS] Nothing

[PSP] The week's star, Final Fantasy III

Hatsune Miku Project Diva [PSV] (just clarifying for others)

poor sales all around
Vita back to sub 10k, 3DS decent Hw and Sw sales, everythingelse meh
TTT2 really bombed, is Tekken slowly dying?

Is the Pokemon 3DS LL factored into these sales? Cuz it officially released on the 15th. If thats the case, its pretty low but I doubt its included.

Probably not, as it was sold only sold in Pokemon Stores.

Then again... it was probably some couple thousands, I believe. The real next color is due on september 27th. The Pink LL.

Japanese School Holidays are over, right? Sales always drop in Japan when school starts.

I remember back in autumn 2008 2007, actually! when the original DS was still sold out and moved up to 300k units in Japan in a single week - it suddenly dropped, over the course of a couple weeks, to below 80k units and stayed there for the rest of the year. It was like a bubble had burst or something.

Sales usually stay pretty depressing until late November in Japan, when the holiday rush starts to set in. We're in for some rather boring 2 months now.

DS had huge stock issues in Japan. During that time Nintendo sold what it could produce, producing huge bumps in the charts. Maybe that's more likely.

totally forgot about this one. I mix up my date. LOLOL.
Thanks VicViper. This TGS hangover get to me.

Scratch that, it wasn't 2008 - it was actually in 2007

But no, it wasn't stock issues. That was the first time the DS wasn't sold out in Japan since late 2005. You can use the tools on this side to look at the sales graph (great thing they brought that back). It really dropped like a rock to about 1/2 of what it had done before starting September and it never got up there again outside the holidays - it dropped even lower to about 40k weekly in 2008. Also sales stopped bouncing up and down (which was caused by unregular shipments) as they had done before and instead stayed at a very stable level, indicating decent supply. Look it up here:

http://www.vgchartz.com/tools/hw_date.php?reg=Japan&ending=Weekly

(You need to dis-able other consoles and extend the timeframe to 2005-2012 to get the whole pictures but it's pretty clearly visible).

I actually remember people saying the DS was doomed back then because - coincidentally - the PSP really took off in Japan at the same time with the release of the PSP 2000

It does explain the bump in Black/White 2, though.

Still, quite a slow week.