Nintendo may have incurred a 9.924 billion yen net loss in the previous quarter, but they’re still dominating when it comes to the best selling eighth-gen console in Japan on a week-in and week-out basis. The latest reports indicate that the Wii U is climbing back up the sales charts while the PS4 is falling even lower on the charts. This could actually spell some good news for the Big ‘N’.

Following on Joystiq’s reporting that Nintendo only shipped 510,000 SKUs of the Wii U and that the company still came in under on the quarterly results, the trends down low on the market’s microcosm look a heck of a lot better for Nintendo, as it shows that the momentum of the Wii U is maintaining and the console’s sales seem to be consistently picking up.

Nintendo Everything spotted the Media Create weekly sales data, and it shows some interesting numbers. Check it out below.

3DS LL – 31,789
Vita – 21,875
Wii U – 9,429
PS3 – 7,175
3DS – 6,656
PS4 – 5,581
Vita TV – 1,767
PSP – 489
Xbox 360 – 122

Hot dang. 5,581? I’m sure there would be some river-dancing in the Redmond offices if an Xbox console managed those numbers but there has to be nothing but soggy cheeks and salty eyes in the Tokyo offices.

Meanwhile at Nintendo…

Now last week we know that the Wii U was down to 8k and the PS4 was resting at the 7k mark, as far as weekly hardware sales go.

Even then, the trends were slowly showing that the Wii U is constantly creating sales disparity in Japan; and even more than that, the trends are showing that the PS4 has definitely been dying at the feet of the Wii U, and this week all but verifies it. Why?

Well, the Wii U is on an uptick. Even though a lot of gamers are saying that the PS4 sales will skyrocket once they get some Japanese-centric games to play, the reality is that the Wii U will get those games first, as indicated by the soon-to-be-launching Hyrule Warriors on August 14th in Japan. This will be followed by Bayonetta 2 in September… and then, well it’s all about the big fall season from then on.

Now my estimate is that the Wii U will likely hit 10k by next week and then jump into the higher double digits once Hyrule Warriors drops. It’s not going to be a rocket-busting game in the sales department but it’s the sort of short-shot in the arm that many Wii U owners (in Japan) have likely been anticipating.

Unofficially, Famitsu’s list of gamers’ most anticipated titles coming out in Japan actually shows that Hyrule Warriors is pretty high up on the list. Bayonetta 2 just cracks the 9th spot within the top 10, and beyond that we have Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U at the 11th spot.

What’s interesting is that the PS4′s most anticipated games aren’t coming anytime soon in 2014. In fact, majority of the PS4′s titles that gamers are craving in Japan won’t be due for release until 2015, unless you count The Evil Within, which is 12th on the list for the PS4.

What does this mean? It means that the Wii U will likely continue to surge ahead in sales in Japan so long as Nintendo keeps doing what they’re doing.

While a lot of people can say that the PS4 might catch the Wii U in Japan in 2015 with games like Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain or Final Fantasy XV (which still doesn’t have a certified release window at this point), the reality is that the Wii U won’t stop getting games throughout this time either. In fact, by the time the PS4 gets a hefty helping of games in Japan we could see the Wii U maintaining its sales gap in Japan no different than the PS4′s gap between it and the Wii U in North America.

I mentioned a few times before that based on the current trends, game releases and market focus, Nintendo is likely to take Japan this generation with Sony coming in second place. Of course, Nintendo just needs to keep their efforts equally focused on the North American market this time around, as it’s just as important for the mind-share expansion of the Wii U (not that it would help them get any third-party support.)

Sony’s definitely going to need more than some flashy marketing tactics to thwart Nintendo’s reign in Japan, as those tactics may have worked against Microsoft and the Xbox One, but gamers in the land of the rising sun are not amused.