Sony will be chinking wine glasses today after November sales hardware figures for Japan put PS3 at the top of the home console list first month since its release.
In the four weeks ending November 25, Sony sold 183,217 PS3s, while Nintendo's seemingly unstoppable Wii trailed at 159,193 sales, according to Japanese magazine publisher, Enterbrain's figures.
This comes as no surprise, considering weekly figures for the past few weeks showed early signs of PS3's sales charge, which outsold Wii by almost 20,000 units (53,000 sales to Wii's 36,000).
Sony's success is being put down to the release of the cheaper 40GB PS3, and Nintendo's ongoing struggle with Wii shortages. Good news for Sony, but will it last?
KBC Securities analyst Hiroshi Kamide told Reuters. "It's nice to see the system selling much better than six months ago. But is it a sustainable trend? Is it going to really escalate from here? I'm not so sure."
