Nintendo's Wii hits Japanese stores
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Nintendo's Wii video game system hit Japanese stores Saturday with long lineups and shortages, following its sellout U.S. launch last month.
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NEW YORK -- Nintendo Co. said its Wii game console will go on sale in the United States on Nov. 19 for $250, hoping that like its plucky game character Mario, it will be able to take on the gorillas of the market: Sony and Microsoft .
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) Wii  was the best-selling video game console in the United States in  January, and the Japanese company also boasted four of the top  10 games, data released on Wednesday showed.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. 7974.OS said on   Thursday there will be 16 software titles available when it   launches its new game console, the Wii, on December 2 in Japan.
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Retailer's Japanese arm posts product page for hotly anticipated game console.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) game  console, the Wii, went on sale in Japan on Saturday, greeted by  thousands of shivering but exhilarated game enthusiasts who had  lined up through a wintry night to bring home the latest  machine.
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Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii outsold Sony Corp's  PlayStation 3 by more than 3-to-1 in Japan in December, a game  magazine publisher said, regaining its position as the  top-selling video game console.
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NEW YORK/CHIBA, Japan  - Nintendo Co. Ltd.   7974.OS said on Thursday it will start selling its new video   game console, the Wii, in the United States on November 19 for   about $250, as it girds for a three-way holiday showdown with   Microsoft and Sony.
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Raises forecast The phenomenal success of Nintendo's Wii games console has helped the Japanese manufacturer to double its profits during the six months to the end of September. Nintendo said on Thursday that net profit reached 132.42bn yen ($1.2bn) for the first half of its latest fiscal year, up from 54.4bn yen for the same time last year. Group sales more than doubled to 694.8bn yen ($6.1bn) from 298.82bn yen last time around.â¦
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Nintendo Co.'s  Wii game console  outsold Sony Corp.'s  PlayStation 3 by more than five  to one in Japan last month, Japanese game magazine publisher  Enterbrain said, casting a shadow over a turnaround in Sony's  game business.
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Hot on the heels of big US sales, the DS makes its debut in the homeland. After a strong sales in the US, the Nintendo DS was made available to hundreds of thousands of Japanese gamers Thursday morning.
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Nintendo's Wii outsold rival Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) three-fold in Japan last year, helping the country's multi-billion dollar video game market to notch up its best ever year, a survey showed Monday.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) sold  600,000 units of its new Wii video game console in the first  eight days after its release in the Americas, as the company  vies with rivals Sony Corp. (6758.T) and Microsoft Corp.   for gamers' hearts and wallets.
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Nintendo Wii outsells the Spny PS3 6 to 1 in Japan, and it now steals part of the country's prime-time TV audience.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. said on Thursday  it will start selling its new game console, the Wii, on  December 2 in Japan for 25,000 yen ($212), making it the third  and last major game maker to bring a next-generation console to  market.
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Wii, DS in demand Nintendo took the crown last week for pre-Christmas console sales in Japan, with sales of Wiis and DS Lites higher than all the others combined.â¦
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Nintendo says it will launch its new Wii console in Japan in December, costing a maximum of $215.