…the PS3’s $600 price tag scared away would-be buyers and convinced others to opt for lower-priced rival consoles, such as Nintendo’s Wii.Toshiba, the world’s No. 2 maker of NAND flash memory chips, also said it would sell laptops using flash memory for storage…

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…game console outsold Sony Corp.’s (6758.T) PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, according to XFN-Asia.Nintendo sold 251,794 Wii consoles in Japan in May, while Sony sold 45,321 PS3s, the newswire said, citing a report from Enterbrain, a Japanese publisher…

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…Nintendo sold 251,794 units of the Wii in May, compared with 45,321 units of the PS3 sold. The ratio was four to one in April.Nintendo launched the Wii in November. The device features a motion-sensitive controller that allows users to direct on-screen play by swinging it…

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