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Nintendo Wii Still Thrashing The PS3
The woes of the PS3 continue as the console minnow, the Nintendo Wii,
continues to be the star seller in the US, and around the world.
According to the latest sales figures from NPD, US consumers snapped up
259,000 Wii consoles in March compared to 199,000 Xbox 360s and just 130,000
PS3s. However, none of the above were the biggest selling console.
That coveted position went to 
Sony’s last-generation console, the PS2,
which sold 280,000 units last month, thanks to some price cuts and the launch of
the highly anticipated God Of War 2 game, which sold over 830,000 copies in the same
period. This is not the first time that the PS2 has outsold its shiny new
successor.
The PS3 figures show that Sony only managed to increase sales in March
by a disappointing 2% over February. A
Sony statement said:
“We continued to find ourselves supply constrained in March due
primarily to the shift in manufacturing focus to the PS3 PAL version to support
the launch of the system in Europe.”
The Wii has so far sold a massive 5.8 million units globally and Nintendo plans to sell 20 million of them by this time next year. This is possible, but only if Nintendo manages to sort out its own chronic console shortages.
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