Excluding PSP, Japanese sales of all the major home and portable systems remained fairly static during the week ended August 31.

Nintendo’s DS held onto the top spot for the fourth week in a row, shifting 56,439 units, about 500 more than the previous week, while sales of Sony’s second-placed PSP dropped by 6,000 units to 41,664.

There was little change in the remainder of the hardware chart, with Nintendo’s Wii sitting comfortably in third place ahead of Sony’s home consoles and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.

DS - 56,439
PSP - 41,664
Wii - 35,755
PS3 - 9,775
PS2 - 8,810
Xbox 360 - 3,124

Sales data compiled by Media Create.

View the latest Japanese software chart here.