Nintendo sold about 3.63 million Wii consoles in its home market in 2007 while Sony sold 1.21 million PS3s, according to magazine publisher Enterbrain.
The Wii also trounced the PS3 more than three-fold in the key year-end sales period between November 25 and December 30, selling 774 123 Wii consoles against Sony's sales of 232 421 PS3s, the survey showed.
Nintendo won back its lead after the two rivals briefly traded places in November, when the PS3 outsold the Wii in Japan for the first time, helped by a price cut and a stronger line-up of games, according to Enterbrain.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Wii trounces PS3, Xbox
(Fin24) - Nintendo's Wii outsold rival Sony's PlayStation 3 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 on Monday.
Oil drops further away from $100
(Fin24) - Oil prices eased further from the historic 100-dollar-a-barrel level on Monday on fears that energy demand in the United States could be hit by the weakness of the world's biggest economy, traders said.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in February, fell 51c to $97.40/barrel in electronic deals.
It had struck a record high of $100.09 last Thursday.
On Monday, Brent North Sea crude for February eased 7c to $96.72/barrel. Last week it struck an historic peak of $98.50.
"Prices fall as weak economic data rekindle fears of recessions in the US," Barclays Capital analyst Kevin Norrish wrote in a note to clients.
Europe Confidence Falls to Lowest in Almost Two Years
(Bloomberg) -- European economic confidence fell in December to the lowest in almost two years as orders weakened and soaring prices for food and energy pushed up inflation.
An index of executive and consumer sentiment in the euro area slipped to 104.7, the lowest since March 2006, from 104.8 in November, the European Commission in Brussels said today. A separate report showed producer-price inflation accelerated in November to the highest in almost a year.
Expansion in Europe's services and manufacturing industries is slowing and confidence is weakening after oil prices reached a record and the euro gained against the dollar. Still, the European Central Bank has held off cutting its key lending rate as inflation soars, threatening to fuel bigger pay demands.
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