A Nintendo "revival" is definitely on the up and up from what we have been seeing in Japan and the States. As far as Nintendo reaching #1 once again worldwide... I highly doubt it. Sony has such a lock on consoles at the moment that unless the PS3's price range totally discourages consumers from buying it, they will sell like hotcakes. If only for the PlayStation brand name.
Yes the DS has sold incredibly well in Japan. The most recent update of Media Create Hardware Sales shows:
1 DS Lite: 140,969 (827,737, 827,737)
2 DS: 37,204 (767,772, 6,414,722)
3 PS2: 27,549 (504,215, 19,208,840)
4 PSP: 26,340 (609,398, 3,292,355)
5 GBASP: 6,372 (100,814, 5,793,250)
6 GBM: 3676 (62,678, 477,766)
7 Xbox 360: 1,926 (37,287, 107,855)
8 GC: 1,080 (43,649, 4,137,238)
9 GBA: 46 (2,397, 8,822,044)
10 Xbox: 30 (1,355, 47,5200)
This shows a slight increase in Xbox360 sales which usually trail behind the Gamecube a bit. It also shows that combining both models of the DS bring this weeks total to almost 200K units sold. About 7 times as much as the next on the list, the PS2 (wow@PS2 still selling boatloads)
For Software the DS is also king of Japan:
1 Train Your Brain 2 (Nintendo, DS): 70,984 (1,886,802)
2 Train Your Brain (Nintendo, DS): 51,931 (1,929,506)
3 Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo, DS): 49,168 (2,462,062)
4 Legend of Starfy 4(Nintendo, DS): 47,971
5 Guilty Gear XX Slash (Sega, PS2): 43,601
6 DS English Training (Nintendo, DS): 43,365 (846,714)
7 Pokemon Ranger (Nintendo, DS): 38,030 (359,001)
8 FFXII (Square Enix, PS2): 24,694 (2,150,671)
9 Pro Yakyu [Baseball] Sta 2006 (Bandai Namco): 20,959 (72,986)
10 Pro Yakyu Spirit 3 (Konami, PS2): 20,604 (89,142)
That's 6 of the top 10 software sales for this past week going to the DS, the rest for the PS2. OMGWTFLOLBBQ Nintendo iz d00m3d!
More news to come as I find it.