THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Ichirou on December 04, 2007, 12:50:05 AM
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From the Associated Foreign Press, courtesy of Japan Today.
PS3 overtakes Wii in Japan sales
Monday, December 3, 2007 at 04:48 EST
TOKYO — Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console outsold Nintendo's Wii in Japan in November, helped by a price cut and a stronger line-up of games, a survey showed Friday. Sony sold 183,217 PS3s in Japan in the four weeks to November 25, while Nintendo sold 159,193 Wii consoles, according to magazine publisher Enterbrain.
Microsoft, meanwhile, sold 35,065 Xbox 360s as the U.S. software giant continued to struggle on its rivals' home turf, the survey showed.
Sony cut the price of the standard PS3 by 10% in October and launched a new slimmed down version, ratcheting up the competition with its rivals ahead of the crucial year-end sales period.
Nintendo has been enjoying strong demand for the Wii, which earlier this year was outselling the PS3 several times over in Japan.
The PS3's fortunes also now appear to be improving in North America where Sony recently reported a more than three-fold rise in sales in the crucial Thanksgiving holiday week.
While Sony put the emphasis on chip power and ultra-realistic graphics for the latest addition to the PlayStation series, Nintendo opted to develop a cheaper, easy-to-use console that would appeal to a wider audience.
Some analysts argue that the Wii has carved out a new market, so Nintendo and Sony are no longer competing head-to-head in home video game consoles.
They said the softer Wii sales may also be the result of supply shortages rather than weaker demand.
The success of the PS3 is considered vital to a revival at Sony, which under its first foreign boss Howard Stringer has been undergoing a major overhaul.
(AFP)
Guess it's all over for Microsoft and Nintendo now that Sony's built up some steam!!!!
SONY FOREVER!!! :rock :rock :rock
:sp0rsk1
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i totally get why sporsk hates you now
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sp0rsk hates me? News to me.
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maybe i'm thinking of someone else
maybe am nintenho
anyway
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Confusing me with am nintenho? Ouch. You wound me, y2kev.