Nintendo briefly outstrips Sony in market value
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.  briefly  zipped past Sony Corp.  in market capitalization on  Monday to become one of Japan's 10 most valuable companies as  it elbows the PlayStation maker out of its decade-long  dominance of the game industry.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.&#39;s Wii game console  outsold Sony Corp.&#39;s PlayStation 3 by a ratio of over 6 to 1 in  June in Japan, a game magazine publisher said, solidifying  Nintendo&#39;s leading position.
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After placing a distant third in the last generationâs console wars, Nintendo has roared back to a position approaching dominance.
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Shares in Nintendo Co Ltd  briefly jumped more than 5 percent on Friday after robust holiday sales of Wii and DS game machines helped more than double its quarterly operating profit and prompted it to raise its outlook above market expectations.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.  zipped past Sony Corp.  in market value on Monday and became one of Japan's top 10 issues for the first time, as it elbows the PlayStation maker out of its decade-long dominance of the game industry.
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Nintendo raises its sales target for the DS handheld  games console after strong early sales.
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After months of speculation, Sony had good news for gamers yesterday when it revealed that its new handheld game console will go on sale for 19,800 yen (Â£100), cheaper than many analysts predicted.
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U.S. sales of video game hardware  and software were $1.18 billion, with Nintendo Co Ltd's   Wii console keeping a slim edge over rivals amid  ongoing supply constraints.
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NEW YORK -- Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. made separate product announcements yesterday that the video game giants hope will attract more customers ahead of the highly competitive holiday shopping season.
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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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Sony Corp. took another blow with Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, raising doubts over Sony's nascent earnings recovery.
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TOKYO - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc entered the handheld video game market Sunday with the sale of its new PlayStation Portable, pitting it against competitors ahead of the holiday sales period.
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Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd  nearly  tripled its first-half profit and boosted its annual earnings  outlook, as its popular Wii and DS game machines outsell rival  Sony Corp's  PlayStation.
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Sony dropped the price on its PlayStation 3 in July - from $599 to $499 for its 60-gigabyte model - and got a bump in sales, but Nintendo&#39;s Wii continued to dominate by posting its largest monthly sales figure of 2007.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.  sold 476,000 units of its new Wii video game console in the United States in November, more than twice the number of PlayStation 3s sold by rival Sony Corp. , as the two consoles debuted mid-month, research group NPD said on Friday.
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Hit target faster than PS2 did Nintendo has now sold more than 5m Wii consoles in its home territory, reaching that point six weeks sooner than Sony's PS2 took, but not as quickly as Nintendo's own DS handheld.â¦
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Gaming console giants Nintendo and Sony are enabling music and video playback on their popular gaming devices in an effort to dominate the lucrative market, expected to account for sales of $2 billion in the United States this year.