The latest Media Create charts are out, indicating another paved way of Nintendomination over Christmas.

It is 3DS in particular which appears to be seriously challenging already-high expectations. Nobody expects the handheld to out-perform last December - where it had the combined might of Monster Hunter, Mario, and Mario Kart (plus a first Christmas period which was closely following a price cut) - but it looks like it's already the big winner of the year yet again. It was a third party title which took the top spot this week, with Level-5 showing that Inazuma Eleven is still a strong franchise.

And while they might not compare to the blockbuster offerings of 2012, Animal Crossing and Paper Mario are doing fine jobs of leading Nintendo's first-party 3DS pitch.

The company's Wii U games are performing a little more modestly. See for yourself in the software chart for the week of December 10th to 16th.

While it won't outperform last December's crazy hardware numbers for aforementioned reasons, 3DS certainly gave the same week in 2011 a run for its money by punching through the 300,000 mark yet again (over 200,000 were 3DS XL sales, and over 100,000 original 3DS). The handheld is surely a lock to pass the ten million mark early in the new year.

Meanwhile, Wii U enjoyed a very solid second week. For context, the last new system, PlayStation Vita, was down to around 72k in its second week; also launching in December. Wii U also beat out the second-week sales of both Wii and PS3 - also end-of-year launches - but unlike Vita, both these systems could claim to be experiencing shortages at launch. That said, Wii U too pretty much sold through its initial shipment in its launch week, suggesting that Nintendo is having more success meeting demand with its staggered re-stocking.