Nintendo At The Tops Of US July Console Sales

425,000. That is the number of Nintendo Wii consoles shifted in July in U.S., 11 % more than in June according to NPD. With that they completely outran Sony and Microsoft. PS3 and XBOX360 together did not manage to match that number.

Xbox sales number was 170,000 and, shortly after, comes PS3 which sold 159,000. PS3 sales riced 59 % which presumably was because of their drop on price on their console.

Nintendo is doing great business with their DS taking the second place on the chart.

Here is the consoles listed after how many sold in U.S. in July.

Nintendo Wii - 425,000
Nintendo DS - 405,000
Playstation 2 - 222,000
PSP - 214,000
Micorsoft XBOX360 - 170,000
GameBoy Advance - 87,000

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Sony PSP (With GPS) Hits The Market February 2008

Sony Corp plans to sell a satellite navigation accessory from February 2008 that turns its handheld PSP games console into a navigation device, the company announced at the Leipzig Games Convention on Wednesday.

The PSP equipped with the global positioning (GPS) accessory will compete with dedicated navigation devices such as those made by TomTom and Garmin Ltd.

David Reeves, head of Sony's European games unit, said the accessory would be priced between 100 and 150 euros ($A166 - $A249).

Sony separately announced an accessory for its flagship PlayStation 3 that will turn the games console into a digital video recorder. The accessory is a receiver for terrestrial digital broadcasts such as the Freeview service in Britain.

The move sets Sony apart from Microsoft Corp, which offers downloadable movies and television shows for its Xbox 360 console but no live TV.

A player that also owns a PSP will be able to transfer recorded programs to the handheld device and watch them on the go, Sony said. The product is to be launched in early 2008 in selected European markets.

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