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July sees PS3 overtake 360 in Canada

Gary15 | August 22, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 
The PS3 price cuts seem to have payed off for Sony, in Canada at least, game industry research firm NPD have confirmed that the PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 in the month of July.

Over 15,000 P3S consoles were sold in the July period which was 2000 more than the Xbox 360. Despite this the Wii and DS are still dominating the market with 36,000 and 46,000 units sold respectively.

The article also gives the top 10 games sales for the month in Canada which include, Guitar hero Encore and Marty party 8.
The PS3 managed to move more than 15,000 systems in Canada for the month, overtaking the 13,000 Xbox 360s sold. However, both consoles were bested handily by Nintendo's Wii, which racked up more than 36,000 sales for the month. On the portable side of the market, the DS topped all non-PC platforms in July with almost 46,000 units sold, well ahead of the PlayStation Portable's 6,000 tally.

The industry as a whole was up more than 62 percent for the month, to C$84 million ($78.9 million) from the C$51.8 million ($48.7 million) it managed in July 2006. Portable hardware sales were up slightly, but console hardware revenues for the month more than tripled, leading to an overall 11 percent increase for systems, up to C$35.8 million ($33.6 million).

On the software side of the business, growth was significant, but not as explosive. Overall software sales were up more than 30 percent, to C$38.2 million ($35.9 million), led by a 43 percent increase in console software. Portable games only managed 8 percent growth for the month. Rounding out the industry picture, accessory sales were up more than 78 percent, to C$10 million ($9.4 million).

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    Silver Mirror | August 22, 2007
    America, Denmark and now Canada!

    Wow Sony's really pulling back
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    Tom | August 22, 2007
    Good to see Sony finally pull it back, now they have to challenge Nintendo, which is starting to seem like a more and more impossible task. Good luck to them though.
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    Final Blade | August 22, 2007
    Are you guys really that surprised. I knew it was only a matter of time. Its a sony product after all.

    Good job Sony, continue to prove those bad critics wrong.
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    Miamifan99 | August 22, 2007
    I'm glad sony is making a breakthrough, but as I stated before, ps3 is too overpriced, and xbox is basically as good as it.

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