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Wii Increases Its Lead On PlayStation

The New York Times, Friday, May 18, 2007 12 PM

American consumers bought more than four times as many Nintendo Wii video game consoles than Sony's competing PlayStation 3 during April, according to NPD Group. The ratio has widened from the first three months of the year, when the Wii outsold Sony's new console 2 to 1.

Nintendo sold 360,000 Wii consoles; Sony sold 82,000 PlayStation 3 consoles. Still, analysts say it is too soon to determine whether the hole is too deep for Sony to climb out. The battle for dominance among console competitors can take years to play out, and this one is only a few months old.

David Karraker, a spokesman for Sony, says that Sony and its partners planned to publish at least 105 games by March 2008, more than doubling the current library.

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