Xbox 360 still struggling
Nintendo's Wii game player outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 machine by almost three-to-one last month in Japan.
Nintendo, the world's biggest maker of handheld game players, sold 168,220 Wii machines, compared with 66,444 PlayStation 3 consoles, in September, researcher Enterbrain said in a faxed statement today.
Sales of the Wii have outnumbered the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 since the game machine was introduced in Japan in December, thanks to the Mario game series and Wii Sports. The gains helped Kyoto-based Nintendo's stock more than double since the Wii began selling in Japan, compared with a 25 percent increase for Sony shares.
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft sold 13,242 Xbox 360s in Japan last month.
Cumulative sales of the Wii totaled 3.57 million units, while 1.21 million PlayStation 3s have been sold since it was introduced Dec. 2 in Japan. Sales of the Xbox 360 reached 455,532 million units since its debut in December 2005.