The first Japanese sales update of the New Year is finally here - a little later than expected - but it comes very much with a 'late 2012' feeling, as Animal Crossing: New Leaf is still rooted to the top spot.

Due to the holidays, it looks like the Media Create charts that would have been due last Wednesday (December 24th-30th) have been lost between the cracks, so today only features the week just gone. As it happens, the only notable release during that missing week was Level-5's 3DS life-sim Fantasy Life, which as you can see below has enjoyed a very decent first two weeks.

And with there being no new releases charting this week, the start of 2013 was very much a year for several games - mostly 3DS titles - to stretch their legs. And stretch they did, with the New Year week traditionally being a stronger week than that immediately following Christmas.

So here's the software chart for the week of December 31st 2012 to January 6th 2013.

Luckily, you can see in the hardware chart what each system managed to do in the previous week, so there are no lost figures there. 3DS remains leagues ahead of everything else, very much competing with its own stellar form this time last year. The New Year boost gives pretty much everything else a bump too, although Wii U continues its slightly concerning slump since launch date. That said, it still remains the best selling home console despite a big boost for PS3.