Nintendo poised to overtake Sony in the consoles battle

Sony has released results showing that it has sold 14.4 million PS3 machines worldwide since it went on sale late 2006 but this might not be enough to prevent Nintendo from overtaking them as the world’s biggest seller of computer games consoles in 2008. This classic oligopolistic market continues to see vigorous price and non-price competition between the three dominant players - Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. This week - all ten of the top UK selling computer games are either for the Wii or Nintendo DS and five of the chart toppers are produced by Nintendo themselves. The company has sold more than 10 million Wii consoles and 70 million DS handheld machines worldwide.

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