Wii could top record-holding PS2: Nintendo
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SANTA MONICA, California  - Sales of Nintendo's  quirky Wii video game machine could top the legendary  PlayStation 2, making it the biggest hit in the industry's  history, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said on Thursday.
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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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On your marks. Get set. Sell Gaming megapublisher Electronic Arts officially predicts that Nintendo's Wii will be the highest selling gaming console in North America and Europe.â¦
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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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Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii game console outsold Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 by a ratio of over 6 to 1 in June in Japan, a game magazine publisher said, solidifying Nintendo's leading position.
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Sales of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game  console surpassed one million units in Japan in about eight  months after its launch, more than four times as long as it  took Nintendo's hot-selling Wii to reach the same mark.
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Nintendo overtook Sony Corp. Monday in market value as the company that brought to the world Mario and Donkey Kong cranks up the pressure on its arch-rival, helped by the success of its Wii game console.
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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 sales worldwide have surpassed lifetime Microsoft Xbox 360 sales in less than a year.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS) zipped past  Sony Corp. (6758.T) in market value on Monday and became one of  Japan&#39;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&#39;s Wii video game console outsold rival Sony&#39;s PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan in May, a research company said Tuesday.
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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.
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Nintendo says it has sold more than 600,000 of its new Wii game consoles, since its launch eight days ago in North America.
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Its low price and innovative controller could push Nintendo&#8217;s Wii console to the top spot in Japan&#8217;s multi-billion dollar video gaming market, two industry watchers said Thursday.
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TechWeb - If Nintendo succeeds, then it would be the first time that the Wii has taken the lead among new-generation home video game consoles.
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Nintendo&#39;s Wii is still holding the top spot in its home country, but Sony&#39;s PlayStation 3 is gaining ground on the low-cost console. According to Japanese game magazine publisher Enterbrain, Nintendo sold 245,653 Wii consoles during the four weeks ending August 26. Sony sold 81,541 units of the PS3 during that same period.
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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.