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Wii Are the Champions

Nintendo game console outsells Sony and Microsoft combined

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 24, 2007 3:29 AM CDT

(Newser) – Vdeo gamers were reaching for the Wii-mote in July after buying up an impressive 425,000 Nintendo Wii consoles—more than twice the sales of either X-Box 360 or Playstation 3.  It was a strong month for video games as a whole, with console sales more than doubling since June to $286 million.

The industry is on pace to make record US sales of up to $18 billion this year, reports Bloomberg. Nintendo is in a dominant position, with both the Wii console and the top hand-held player, the DS, which outsold Sony’s PSP in July—405,000 units to 215,000 for the PSP.

A visitor swings a wireless game controller as he plays a golf simulation by Electronic Arts (EA) with a Nintendo Wii console at the Electronic Arts (EA) booth at the Games Convention, the fair for interactive entertainment in Leipzig, eastern Germany, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007. More than 500 exhibitors from...
A visitor swings a wireless game controller as he plays a golf simulation by Electronic Arts (EA) with a Nintendo Wii console at the Electronic Arts (EA) booth at the Games Convention, the fair for interactive...   (Associated Press)
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(FILES) This file photo dated 08 December, 2006 shows a man carrying...   (Getty Images)
Boxes of Wii Nintendo consoles are seen in a shop in the early...
Boxes of Wii Nintendo consoles are seen in a shop in the early...   (Getty Images)
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