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Sony's PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo's Wii game console in Japan in November for the first time since the machines were launched last year, showing Sony may finally be overcoming a slow start versus its upstart rival.
Sony sold 183,217 PS3s in Japan in the four weeks to Nov. 25, topping sales of 159,193 Wii consoles, said game magazine publisher Enterbrain, a key watcher of trends in the sector.
Sony dominated the game industry with its previous generation unit, the PlayStation 2, but lost its crown to the low-cost Wii with its new idea of a motion sensor in the control unit.
This opened the way to a whole new range of games and even exercise programs.
Some months saw 5-6 times as many Wii units sold as PS3s in Japan, an important battleground for the Japanese console makers and their key U.S. rival, Microsoft [MSFT
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The PS3 was hampered by a scarcity of strong game titles and a high price tag but Sony said more games were now available and it has cut prices.
Sales have also been boosted by a new mid-range model with a 40-gigabyte hard disk drive, the company said.
Shares in Sony [SNE
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