The Wii has its lowest sales month since launch, but Mario just keeps on selling software.

The August NPD numbers have been released, and Nintendo once again yields the top console sales spot to Microsoft. While the recently-redesigned Xbox 360 sold the most systems overall, the Wii finished August in third place with sales of 244,300, with the Nintendo DS finishing second with 342,700. The Wii finished the tracking period with its lowest month of hardware sales since its 2006 launch.

On the software side, Madden NFL 11 was unsurprisingly the top game of the month, taking the top two spots on the chart. Super Mario Galaxy 2 finished in third, roughly 770,000 units behind second-place Madden NFL 11 for PlayStation 3. Its sales of 124,600 were enough to push it ahead of Mafia II for the Xbox 360. New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Fit Plus continued to be big software sellers on the platform, taking the sixth and tenth spots respectively. New Super Mario Bros. for DS outpaced its console big brother for the month, moving 110,400 units to earn the fifth spot.

Producer Motohide Eshiro talks about how the upcoming game will feature returning developers and brand new ones.

Capcom recently made the Japanese site for Ace Attorney Investigations 2 (known as Gyakuten Kenji 2 in Japan) live. In the debut blog post, Motohide Eshiro, the producer of the previous game, explains how the sequel came about and apologizes for taking so long to produce the sequel.

Ace Attorney Investigations 2 will be at Tokyo Game Show in some capacity next week following its recent reveal.

Below is a translation of the blog post from NWR Japanese Corespondent Matt Walker:

The previously announced Dead or Alive game for the 3DS receives a new title.

This week's issue of Famitsu has new information regarding Dead or Alive 3DS, which now has a new name: Dead or Alive Dimensions.

In addition to this new title, the article confirms several features, including the return of classic characters such as Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate. It also marks the return of Raidou, a character first seen in the original Dead or Alive title for the Sega Saturn, as well as Ayane's father and Kasumi and Hayate's father. The article also notes that this is the first new Dead or Alive title since 2005's Dead or Alive 4 for the Xbox 360, being developed once more by Team Ninja and directed and produced by Yousuke Hayashi.

Monster Hunter spin-off stays at the top, while Nintendo takes the second and third spots.

In this week's Media Create sales charts, Capcom's Monster Hunter Diary Poka Poka Ailu Village for the PSP remains at the top spot with 88,405 copies sold for a total of 344,480 copies sold. Nintendo, however, captured the second and third spots with two Wii titles. Wii Party came in at second with 55,837 copies sold for a total of 915,570 copies sold. Metroid: Other M debuts in the third place with 45,398 copies sold in its first four days of sales. Metroid titles typically fare relatively poorly in Japan, and Nintendo's advertising push was unable to break the trend.

The latest Mega Man downloadable title is too big for Nintendo's service.

At PAX, Capcom revealed that they wanted to release Mega Man Universe on WiiWare as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but the service's size restrictions prevented them from doing so. They are not able to do bring the game to WiiWare at this time.

Mega Man Universe is a classic Mega Man game featuring different characters, including three variations of Mega Man (Rock Man, Mega Man and Bad Box Art Mega Man) as well as Ryu from Street Fighter and other yet to be confirmed characters. The game was never announced for a WiiWare release, but is coming to Xbox Live and the Playstation Store in Spring 2011.

For a minimal fee, players can export most Rock Band 2 songs to the third game.

Harmonix's John Drake confirms that Rock Band 3 will allow players to export songs from Rock Band 2 for a fee, similar to how Rock Band 2 allowed song export from Rock Band. The feature will work for all three console versions. Pricing and details have yet to be announced, but as before some songs may not be exportable due to licensing issues.

In addition to this, Drake explains that while regular songs will be priced at $2, content made for Rock Band 3's Pro Mode will probably be more expensive due to the songs featuring a lot more elements the team had to work on.

Famitsu reveals details on the sequel to the Ace Attorney spin-off.

This week's Famitsu reveals that a sequel to Ace Attorney Investigations is in the works. Scans have surfaced in advance of the magazine's publication date showing the title "Gyakuten Kenji 2" for DS on the contents page. The feature pages from the issue have also found their way online, but currently the only source is a blurred scan from which it is difficult to extract any information. 

It is expected that Gyakuten Kenji 2, Turnabout Prosecutor, as the Ace Attorney Investigations series is known in Japan, will be playable at Tokyo Game Show next week.

The creators of The Conduit will be working on the latest Marvel title.

In an interview with The Conduit Portal, the Creative Director of The Conduit 2 confirmed that High Voltage Software have a team currently working on the Captain America game.

Titled Captain America: The First Avenger, Sega will be giving them more freedom when creating this title for the Wii compared to their last Marvel project, Iron Man 2. Other details will be released when the full interview goes live.

Artists gather to present their vision of Nintendo's mascot in honor of his 25th anniversary.

The "La Central de Diseno de Matadero" museum in Madrid, Spain will be holding a special Super Mario exhibit in honor of the plumber's 25th anniversary. Titled "Once Upon a Super Mario," artists from all over the world will present their vision of Mario and his colorful universe.

"We have tried to capture the spirit of Mario's imaginary world," said Miguel Espada and Juan Santa Cruz, members of espadaysantacruz studio, the team behind the exhibition.

In addition to the "Once Upon a Super Mario" exhibit, a special event called "Miyamoto's Way" will honor the plumber's creator through interactive panels and play some of his games. Finally, visitors will be able to render their vision of the character using Art Academy for the DS. The drawings will then be part of a collection of drawings that will be hung from the ceiling.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version that comes with new copies of NBA Elite 11 will have online play, though.

There will be no online support for NBA Jam on Wii, according to a Twitter post from EA Sports Community Manager Alain Quinto.

This follows the development team's comments about how they would only have online if they could get it working well. Various progress reports said they couldn't get it running at 60 frames per second, which is something Creative Director Trey Smith was adamant about maintaining in online play.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of the game, which comes with new copies of NBA Elite 11, will feature online play, along with exhibition and the classic campaign.