New Super Mario Bros continues to dominate Japanese sales for the week ending June 18th.

For another week the software charts light up with Nintendo DS software and a handful of PS2 games...but wait! Whats this!? The new PSP title Doko Demo Issho managed to sneak into the top 10 - interestingly, the games in this series have been more offbeat (the term "non-gaming" or whatever) as opposed to the bulk of PSP software (which largely emulate the console experience). Nevertheless, again Mario played the hero, easily outselling everything else in its headlong run towards the 2 million sold milestone (likely to be achieved within the next two weeks).

In hardware, its business as usual for the Nintendo DS Lite: Japanese demand continues to outstrip supply. Nintendo's recent announcement that they will be manufacturing more than 2 million units per month should go a long way toward alleviating the situation...unless European and American demand proves just as voracious. On a side note, sales of the DS Phat (original type, of course) experienced a sudden jump. A hidden windfall of stock? Imported units? Whatever the reason, don't expect such performance to be the norm from here on out - remember that production of the original model is all but utterly phased out.

Software Chart June 12-18

• 1) New Super Mario Bros. - (NDS, Nintendo) - 200,037
• 2) More Brain Training - (NDS, Nintendo) - 60,463
• 3) World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 - (PS2, Konami) - 52,124
• 4) Digimon Story - (NDS, Bandai Namco) - 41,135
• 5) Brain Training - (NDS, Nintendo) - 40,878
• 6) Animal Forest DS - (NDS, Nintendo) - 30,206
• 7) English Training - (NDS, Nintendo) - 26,723
• 8) Tetris DS - (NDS, Nintendo) - 23,762
• 9) Pachislot Vol. 5 Shinseiki - (PS2, D3) - 23,587
• 10) Doko Demo Issho: Let's Gakkou! - (PSP, SCE) - 16,852

Hardware Chart June 12-18

• 1) Nintendo DS Lite - 141,487
• 2) Playstation Portable - 24,653
• 3) Nintendo DS - 22,748
• 4) Playstation 2 - 20,737
• 5) GameBoy Advance SP - 4,642
• 6) Xbox 360 - 1,407
• 7) GameBoy Micro - 1,294
• 8) Gamecube � 1,002