Despite the Nintendo 3DS dominating the Japanese hardware sales this week following the recent price cut on the console, sales of software for the system were still rather low, with just three 3DS titles featuring in the weekly software sales charts.

For the week ended August 21, Pokemon Rumble Blast, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Nintendogs + Cats all featured in the Japanese top 20, according to data from tracking firm Media Create and as reported by NeoGAF.

There was good news for Nintendo however, as Wii title Rhythm Heaven once again topped the charts, with a total of 48,190 units sold. In fact, Nintendo held half of the top 10 titles, with Kirby Mass Attack, Pokemon Rumble Blast and Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus joining Rhythm Heaven and Zelda.

As for new entries, Compile Heart's PS3 title Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 was the highest new entry, landing in position four, while Atlus' Growlanser IV: Over Reloaded on PSP reached number six.

Lower down the chart, Idea Factory brought Amnesia into the fray at number 13, while FuRyu settled for number 15 with its PSP game Bunmei Haruka: Aoiza Ibunroku. There were no re-entries into the charts this week.

The complete top 20 chart, as supplied by Media Create, is shown below.

Sega saw its new PSP release J-League Pro Soccer Club! 7: Euro + plant itself firmly at the top of the Japanese software sales charts last week, while Nintendo and Bandai Namco dominated the rest of the top 20.

According to data from tracking firm Media Create, and as posted on NeoGAF, the soccer title sold 101,022 units in total, knocking Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven for Wii off the top, having been there for the last two weeks. However, Rhythm Heaven still held strong at number four.

Other than the top spot, Nintendo and Namco Bandai claimed the entire top 10, with Namco Bandai's new releases All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation, Toriko: Gourmet Survival and Family Fishing taking up high positions.

Nintendo has two new releases in the top 10, Kirby Mass Attack at number two and Epic Mickey at number six. Old releases such as Wii Sports Resort and Wii Play: Motion continued to sell well.

Other new releases in the charts last week included StormLover Karen!! from DS Publisher at number 11, Starfish's Elminage III: Ankoku no Shito to Yaiyou no Kyuuden at 16 and Marvelous' Half-Minute Hero Second at 17.

The complete top 20 chart, as supplied by Media Create, is shown below.

During February video games sales dropped 15% in the United States. Most credit goes to a large drop in sales of Nintendo Wiis after their post-holiday shortage, and therefore a continuation of the normal post-holiday gloom in the video game market as a whole.

Even with big name titles like Bioshock 2, market performance did not meet expectations. Bioshock 2 arguably helped Xbox 360 sales take the lead in February. The down and dirty information is below.

Here’s the February 2010 hardware sales breakdown, with growth compared to February 2009.

Sales - Item - % change

Four new games arrived in Media Create's top 10 weekly sales rankings, including Spike's action game Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou and Namco Bandai's Super Robot Taisen OG: Saga Endless Frontier Exceed.

The PSP action game Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou debuted at the top spot, selling 72,000 units for the week ended February 28, Media Create said Thursday. The game took the lead from Capcom's Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition for PlayStation 3, which dropped from number one to three, selling 48,000 units this week.

Namco Bandai’s God Eater manages to hold on to the number 1 spot for a second week. The PSP title sells 110 000 copies for the week ending the 14th of February, after having debuted in the top spot with 295 405 copies last week.

Dragon Quest IV: Realms of Reverie continues to sell well in second place with 79 000 copies while New Super Mario Bros. Wii climbs one spot to number 3 with 59 000 copies. Prince of Tennis: Prince of School Festival for the DS debuts at number 4 with 44 000 copies and Friend Collection is still at number 5 with 38 000 copies.

Quiz Magic Academy DS is new at number 6 with 32 000 copies while Wii Fit Plus drops to number 7 with 29 000 copies. Star Ocean: The Last Hope for the PS3 drops to number 8 with 26 000 copies after debuting at number 3 last week with 72 026 copies.

Zangeki no Reginkleiv for the Wii enters the charts at number 9 with 22 000 copies and Sacred 2: Fallen Angel for the PS3 is also new at number 10 with 22 000 copies, bringing the total number of Top 10 new entries this week to four.

More, including the charts along with hardware data, after the break..

Namco Bandai's God Eater for the PSP is off to a good start in Japan, giving 295,000 PlayStation Portable owners another taste of Monster Hunter-like hack and slash action.

God Eater's number one debut pushes last week's software winner, Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi for the Nintendo DS to second place, beating out the PlayStation 3 port of Star Ocean 4. That leaves long-legged bestsellers New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Tomodachi Collection settling for lower spots on the chart, but both titles are still selling like the Japanese equivalent of hotcakes.

This week's new debuts, Pop 'n Music Portable and Kunio-kun Nekketsu! Daiundoukai, didn't make much of a stir, but they've got some decent competition.

For Media Create's top 30 games for the week of February 1 to 7, 2010, read on.

01. God Eater (PSP) - 295,000 / NEW
02. Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi (DS) - 190,000 / 1,096,000
03. Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope International (PS3) - 72,000 / NEW
04. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 62,000 / 3,263,000
05. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 38,000 / 2,780,000
06. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 27,000 / 1,610,000
07. End of Eternity (PS3) - 25,000 / 144,000
08. Pop 'n' Music Portable (PSP) - 19,000 / NEW
09. Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP) - 15,000 / 730,000
10. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 13,000 / 1,735,000

Much more, including hardware data, after the break..

It was a big, big week for the role-playing game in Japan, with the release—and immediate success—of Dragon Quest VI for the Nintendo DS and, to a lesser degree, Sega's latest effort End of Eternity.

Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi debuted to more than 900,000 copies sold in Japan this week, according to Media Create. Its nearest competitor was Sega's aforementioned futuristic RPG End of Eternity (known as Resonance of Fate around these parts) with more than 145,000 copies sold across the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Ar tonelico III: Sekai Shuuen no Hikigane wa Shoujo no Uta ga Hajiku also repped the RPG genre, debuting in the top ten with 82,000 units sold.

The PlayStation 3 was thrice represented in Media Create's top ten by Zipper Interactive's MAG, adding another 19,000 players to the war. Top software sales in Japan for the week of Jan 23 - Jan 30, 2020 are as follows:

01. Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi (DS) - 906,000 / NEW
02. End of Eternity (PS3) - 118,000 / NEW
03. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 84,000 / 3,201,000
04. Ar tonelico III: Sekai Shuuen no Hikigane wa Shoujo no Uta ga Hajiku (PS3) - 82,000 / NEW
05. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 45,000 / 2,742,000
06. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 33,000 / 1,583,000
07. Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP) - 30,000 / 713,000
08. End of Eternity (Xbox 360) - 27,000 / NEW
09. Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP) - 24,000 / 118,000
10. MAG (PS3) - 19,000 / NEW

Full listing and hardware data after the break..

After giving up the first place spot to Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep for a couple weeks, Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii returns to the top of the weekly Media Create sales charts.

It was still a pretty good week for PSP software, however, with Sega's Valkyria Chronicles debuting in second place with 94,000 copies sold, followed by Namco Bandai's Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces. Kingdom Hearts and Monster Hunter helped the PlayStation Portable snag four of the top ten spots, the rest occupied by Wii and DS software.

Valkyria Chronicles 2 debut, by the way, was better than that of its PlayStation 3 predecessor. While the Japanese install base for each PlayStation platform was markedly different for each game's release, I wouldn't be surprised to see future Valkyria games sticking to a handheld platform.

Here are the top thirty games in Japan, according to Media Create, for the week of January 18 to 24, 2010.

01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 111,000 / 3,117,000
02. Valkyria Chronicles 2 (PSP) - 94,000 / NEW
03. Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces (PSP) - 76,000 / NEW
04. Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (PSP) - 60,000 / 683,000
05. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 45,000 / 2,696,000
06. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 34,000 / 1,550,000
07. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii) - 23,000 / 96,000
08. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (the Best) - 16,000 / 102,000
09. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 16,000 / 1,707,000
10. Inazuma Eleven 2: Fire / Blizzard (DS) - 14,000 / 1,047,000

More, including hardware numbers, after the break..

Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep managed to maintain its bestselling status in Japan this week, fending off the triple platinum seller New Super Mario Bros. Wii in it second week.

The newest Kingdom Hearts for the PSP didn't have much in the way of competition, with the exception of top ten debuts Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles for the Wii, Tekken 6 for the PSP and Last Window: Mayonaka no Yakusoku for the Nintendo DS.

A handful of games already released in the West managed to secure top thirty spots on Media Create's weekly sales chart. The Japanese debut of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising can be spotted on this week's chart.

For the bestselling games in Japan for the week of January 11 to 17, 2009, look no further..

01. Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP) - 177,000 / 623,000
02. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 139,000 / 3,006,000
03. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii) - 73,000 / NEW
04. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 55,000 / 2,651,000
05. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 42,000 / 1,516,000
06. Tekken 6 (PSP) - 25,000 / NEW
07. Last Window: Mayonaka no Yakusoku (DS) - 25,000 / NEW
08. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS) - 22,000 / 489,000
09. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 22,000 / 1,691,000
10. Inazuma Eleven 2: Fire / Blizzard (DS) - 22,000 / 1,033,000

All the rest as well as hardware data after the break.

The nominations are in for the 10th annual Game Developers Choice Awards, with Uncharted 2, Flower, and Assassin's Creed II dominating the nominating.

Naughty Dog could win big at the 10th annual awards show, held every year during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves has been nominated for no less than seven awards, including Best Game Design, Best Visual Art, Best Technology, and the coveted Game of the Year award. In fact, the only four categories Uncharted 2 isn't up for are the ones it doesn't qualify for - Best Debut, Best Downloadable, Best New Social / Online, and Best Handheld.

Check out the full list below to see if your favorite game got a nod. Keep in mind, these nominations are made by game industry professionals, so these are the best games as picked by the folks that make them.