Mario Party 9 Storms Japanese Charts & The Nintendo 3DS Is On Fire

Mario Party 9 has successfully managed to climb to the top of the Japanese software charts this week selling a more-than respectable 144,585 units. If you look at the entire top ten youll immediately notice that eight of the ten game are on Nintendo platforms. With regards to hardware the Nintendo 3DS is once again the best-selling format, easily beating Sonys PlayStation 3. Heres the software and hardware charts:

1. [WII] Mario Party 9
2. [PS3] Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
3. [3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening
4. [3DS] Super Mario Land 3D
5. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
6. [3DS] Kid Icarus: Uprising
7. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 G
8. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
9. [PSP] Conception: Please Have My Children!
10. [WII] Wii Sports Resort

• Nintendo 3DS: 91,868
• PlayStation 3: 23,478
• PSP: 20,033
• Wii: 15,789
... [via Sickr]