The downturn in the Japanese games market continues to affect hardware sales, with the latest results sinking to a new low.

The Nintendo DS was the best selling format of the week, but could manage only 39,464 sales (33,833 for the DSi and 5,631 for the DS Lite) - down almost 24,000 units overall.

With the software chart also reporting record lows in terms of unit sales, the PSP saw demand fall by over 15,000 units to 27,536.