This weeks Media Create Japanese software charts show that Capcom’s Resident Evil Revelations managed to secure second place on its week of release. The software charts show that there were a grand total of twelve Nintendo related games in the top twenty overall. The Nintendo 3DS once against topped the Japanese hardware charts, easily outselling the competition selling 84,789.

• 01./00. [PS3] Armored Core V
• 02./00. [3DS] Resident Evil: Revelations
• 03./00. [PSV] Tales of Innocence R
• 04./01. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
• 05./03. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G
• 06./00. [360] Armored Core V
• 07./04. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
• 08./00. [PS3] The Idolmaster
• 09./02. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure
• 10./07. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine / Dark
• 11./00. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Mokuba no Kiseki
• 12./12. [WII] Just Dance Wii
• 13./10. [PS3] Warriors Orochi 3
• 14./13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3)
• 15./11. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2
• 16./14. [WII] Wii Party
• 17./15. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus
• 18./19. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends
• 19./17. [WII] Mario Kart Wii
• 20./16. [WII] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land

1. Nintendo 3DS: 84,789
2. PlayStation 3: 22,924
3. PlayStation Vita: 18,942
4. PlayStation Portable: 16,008
5. Wii: 10,369
6. Nintendo DS: 1,918
7. Xbox 360: 1,235
8. PlayStation 2: 713

Popular UK games retailer GAME won’t be stocking new releases according to Now Gamer as the high street retailer has ”lost credit assurance with most of its publishers.” The company has told the publication that it will be stocking this weeks new releases, but it remains to be seen whether this will continue. GAME has struggled in recent times to compete against the supermarkets and online retailers.

This weeks Media Create Sales are in and once again the Nintendo 3DS is clearly out-performing all the competition selling an impressive 80,960 units. The Nintendo 3DS’ closest competitor is the PlayStation 3 which only managed to sell 21,155 units. Mario Kart continues to be the best-selling Nintendo 3DS game in Japan taking the number one position. Thirteen of the overall top twenty games in Japan are on Nintendo platforms.

1. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
2. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure
3. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G
4. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
5. [360] Onechanbara Z: Kagura
6. [PSP] Heroes Phantasia
7. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine / Dark
8. [3DS] Beyond the Labyrinth
9. [PSP] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin II – Revelation of Evil God
10. [PS3] Warriors Orochi 3
11. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2
12. [WII] Just Dance Wii
13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3
14. [WII] Wii Party
15. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus
16. [WII] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
17. [WII] Mario Kart Wii
18. [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – Dubbed Edition
19. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends
20. [WII] Go Vacation (Bandai Namco Games) 

1. Nintendo 3DS: 80,960
2. PlayStation 3: 21,155
3. PlayStation Portable: 17,181
4. PlayStation Vita: 15,219
5. Wii: 10,173
6. Nintendo DS: 2,022
7. Xbox 360: 1,588
8. PlayStation 2: 903

Tip: Nintendaan

IGN has learned that Microsoft is currently gearing up to release its next console in late October or early November of next year. The next Xbox will be six times more powerful than the Xbox 360 and will yield 20-percent greater performance than Nintendo’s forthcoming console, the Wii U. Who said the Wii U is going to be under-powered?

The readers of UK games publication GamesTM have voted for their favourite video games consoles of all-time. I’m not entirely sure how many people voted but the results could be considered surprising, especially the winning console. Here’s the top fifteen games consoles according to the readers of GamesTM:

1. Xbox 360
2. Super Nintendo
3. PlayStation 2
4. PlayStation
5. Nintendo 64
6. Mega Drive
7. Dreamcast
8. PlayStation 3
9. Amiga
10. PC
11. Gamecube
12. Commodore 64
13. ZX Spectrum
14. NES
15. Game Boy

Online gaming publication Kotaku has posted what they believe to be the 40 most powerful people in the video games industry. Surprisingly Kotaku has placed Apple CEO Tim Cook and also Xbox Chief Don Mattrick above industry stalwart Satoru Iwata. It’s certainly an interesting list that’s bound to cause plenty of controversy amongst its online readership. Here’s the top forty most powerful people in the games industry at the moment:

1. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
2. Don Mattrick, Microsoft’s Xbox Chief
3. Satoru Iwata, CEO of Nintendo
4. Mike Morhaime, CEO of Blizzard
5. Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard
6. Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
7. Kaz Hirai, Sony Executive Vice President
8. Gabe Newell, Boss of Valve Software
9. John Riccitiello, CEO of EA
10. Eric Bright, Wal-Mart Game-Buyer
11. Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
12. Paul Raines, Used GameStop CEO
13. Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take Two
14. Mark Rein, Epic Games Vice President
15. Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft Boss
16. Sam and Dan Houser, The Brothers Rockstar
17. Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, Who Invented Minecraft
18. Ken Levine, Leader of Irrational Games
19. Mark Pinkus, Zynga Czar
20. Shigeru Miyamoto, Lead Game Designer at Nintendo
21. Robert Altman, Head of Zenimax
22. Robert Khoo, Penny Arcade Maestro
23. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia
24. Daniel Kim, CEO of Nexon
25. Jason Rohrer, Developer of Unusual Video Games
26. Ophir Lupu, Video Game Agent, UTA
27. Yoichi Wada, CEO of the Square-Enix-Eidos Empire
28. Michel Guillemot, CEO of Gameloft
29. Pony Ma, CEO of Tencent
30. Andrew Wilson, Head of EA Sports
31. Martin Tremblay, President of Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment
32. Meggan Scavio, Director of the Game Developers Conference
33. Brian J. Dunn, CEO of Best Buy
34. Yoshikazu Tanaka, Founder of Gree
35. Min-Liang Tan, Creative Director of Razer
36. Jane McGonigal, Optimistic Game Designer
37. Michael Gallagher, President of the Entertainment Software Association
38. Naotoshi Zin , CEO of From Software
39. Ryozo Tsujimoto, Capcom Hit-Maker
40. Peter Vesterbacka, Chief Angry Birds Marketing Officer

Nintendo France has announced that the Nintendo 3DS was the best-selling console of 2011 selling an impressive 761,000 units. The Wii and the Nintendo DS also performed well in France although Nintendo would only give a combined figure for both platforms.

• Nintendo 3DS: 761K
• PlayStation 3: 656K
• Xbox 360: 409K
• Wii + DS: >1250K

Nanea Reeves, chief product officer for Gaikai cloud gaming service believes that one major console manufacturer won’t be creating a next generation device. Industry Gamers seem to believe that Reeves has inside knowledge and that perhaps the console manufacturer will instead create a major cloud gaming partnership with Gaikai instead of creating brand new hardware. Any guesses as to which console manufacturer it will be?

“Not all of the current console makers will have one more generation. That will be the big news at E3.”

The Nintendo 3DS continues to set the Japanese hardware charts on fire as the console saw a 20% increase in sales in the first full week of the new year. The Nintendo 3DS sold 240,819 units which clearly propelled it above the competition. In the same week Capcom’s Monster Hunter Tri 3G managed to cross the million mark in sales, becoming the third 3DS game to do so, and the first third-party 3DS game to do so.

Japanese hardware charts

• 1. 3DS: 240,819 (197,952)
• 2. PS3: 74,459 (67,199)
• 3. PSP: 71,033 (62,746)
• 4. Wii: 49,525 (33,208)
• 5. PSV: 42,915 (42,648)
• 6. DSi LL: 3,971 (3,356)
• 7. X360: 2,738 (2,453)
• 8. DSi: 3,565 (2,418)
• 9. PS2: 1,323 (1,659)

Japanese software charts

• [3DS] 01. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/01): 157,188 (1,317,357)
• [3DS] 02. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/03): 119,093 (1,199,285)
• [3DS] 03. Monster Hunter 3G (Cacpom, 12/10): 98,355 (1,083,853)
• [3DS] 04. Inazuma Eleven Go (Level-5, 12/15): 56,134 (325,358)
• [PS3] 05. Musou Orochi 2 (Tecmo Koei, 12/22): 42,464 (316,516)
• [WII] 06. Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, 10/13): 37,266 (490,677)
• [PS3] 07. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 12/15): 35,325 (739,561)
• [WII] 08. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07/08/2010): 33,174 (2,256,803)
• [WII] 09. Hoshi no Kirby Wii (Nintendo, 10/27): 33,040 (570,168)
• [WII] 10. Wii Sports Resort Wiimote Plus Pack (Nintendo, 11/11/2010): 30,783 (833,757)

GameSpot has published the results of a reader survey which shows consumers most requested feature from next generation consoles such as the Wii U, PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox. Surprisingly the most requested feature wasn’t graphical prowess but the ability to play your old games on your next generation consoles. Thankfully Nintendo has already stated that Wii games and peripherals will be fully backwards compatible with Wii U.