Kirby returns to the DS again in the week ending November 5th.

Courtesy of Media-Create, we have the most recent sales figures from Japan.

The week marked the release of the newest DS Kirby game, a somewhat more orthodox platforming design than the Pink Puff's radical first DS outing. Also particularly noteworthy was Konami's Winning Eleven DS, the dual screen rendition of the seminal soccer favorite. Nintendo's monster battler Pokemon meanwhile continues to march inexorably toward shattering the 3 million sales mark. All signs indicate it will do so in time for next week's charts, making it handily the fastest selling DS game of all...and yet the game still awaits release outside of Japan.

It is just mind boggling to see games like Animal Crossing DS, Brain Training and (of course) New Super Mario Bros continue to experience such robust sales, so many weeks after release. Truly unprecedented in the industry.

Hardware sales largely followed the same popular script from recent months: the DS Lite continued to be Japan's darling, followed by everything else. One notable performance was turned in by the 360 however, which registered sales four times that of the previous week.

The weekly software numbers follow:

The week's console numbers follow: