500k week 3.

This is absolutely ridiculous! Was anyone expecting it to be this high? In its first month it'll pass what FFXIII will do in its lifetime!

It looks like NSMB Wii will easily take the title of best selling home console game in Japan, since the original Super Mario Bros (was it bundled?). 2D Mario really owns Japan...

Not huge enough to worry Mr. Mario.

I think PH and ST are 2.5D, not quite 3D and not quite 2D.   But still Nintendo should get something from this.

It increased from 2nd week? That's pretty unusual. I wonder how well NSMB is pushing HW this week

Over 200K ioi said, if so then good stuff!

I mean, I know Christmas isn't huge in japan... but isn't there some Japanese holiday around now that's huge?

Another funny possibility.  Maybe FF13 boosted it's sales, and people bought both games while they were out.

Kas - Not too sure, not well-read on my Japanese culture knowledge, but would make sense. Also, the latter suggestion would be pretty interesting as well.

Nintendogamer - Keeping over the 200k mark, that's impressive. How does that make that race between PS3 and Wii reaching their next mil mark play out?

A close race I say, one could reach their target while the other competitor is only about 20,000 behind, or they both could reach their next million at the same time, that would be better actually.

If anything, I think NSMBWii quite stalled FFXIII sales, not the other way around...

The fact that the link in the OP doesn't work really bothers me.