The third game in the popular Professor Layton series has yet to be released outside of Japan, but if sales here are anything to go by it should prove popular when it finally does. Selling almost 350,000 copies in one week, it beat out the annualised soccer game Wining Eleven to the top spot.

Animal Crossing (known as Animal Forest in Japan) is Nintendo's only first party title for the Wii this Christmas holiday and has racked up another hundred thousand units this week.

Nintendo has several Animal Crossing commercials running on Japanese TV currently, mostly focusing on the bundled Wii Speak accessory.

The highest Wii branded software is Wii Fit at No.17, so Japanese shoppers appear to choosing Animal Crossing with their Wii consoles this Christmas.

Weekly Sales / Total Sales

01. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel (Level 5) 347,360 / New Entry

02. [PS3] Winning 11 2009 (Konami) 168,405 / New Entry

03. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 108,547 / 413,727

04. [NDS] Chrono Trigger DS (Square Enix) 80,157 / 351,025

05. [PSP] Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force 3 (Konami) 64,179 / New Entry

06. [PSP] Gundam vs. Gundam (Namco Bandai) 56,557 / 323,489

07. [NDS] Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (Nintendo) 56,176 / 474,749

08. [PSP] Silent Hill 3 (Spike) 53,966 / New Entry

09. [PSP] Musou Orochi: Maou Sairin (KOEI) 45,809 / New Entry

10. [PSP] Higurashi Daybreak (Alchemist) 32,639 / New Entry

The camera-enabled Nintendo DSi is hanging on to its No.1 position again this week, keeping back it's biggest rival, the Sony PSP.

Meanwhile the Xbox 360 beat the PlayStation 2 this week despite not having a game in the top 20. The highest-ranking game for Microsoft's console is Last Remnant at No.23.

01. DSi - 87,185

02. PSP - 55,090

03. Wii - 49,848

04. PS3 - 34,978

05. DS Lite - 26,851

06. Xbox 360 - 11,423

07. PS2 - 5,628