01/09/2007 04:02:42 AM
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 meet targets
[Toronto Star]
Published Date: January 9, 2007
Page: C03
Section: Business
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Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp., the world's two largest makers of video-game consoles, reached shipment targets during the holiday shopping season.
Microsoft sold 10.4 million Xbox 360 consoles last year, beating a target for 10 million units, the company said at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Sony's U.S. chief said the company overcame production delays to meet its goal of shipping one million PlayStation 3 machines to the United States.
The results underscore the battle between Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo Co. in one of the consumer electronics industry's fastest-growing markets. Sales of video-game consoles may rise 23 per cent to $16 billion (U.S.) this year, outpacing 7 per cent growth in the industry as a whole, according to the organizers of CES.
"For the consoles, the big year is now," said Jean-Michel Salvador, an analyst at Fideuram Wargny in Paris.
"Certainly Sony will face a larger challenge than in the previous cycle."
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