Sony Playstation 3 fans, rejoice!

The PS3 is no longer being clobbered (a technical marketing term) by a 10 to one sales ratio vs Nintendo’s Wii. It is now only being soundly beaten by a paltry three to one sales ratio because of Sony’s recent sequence of price cuts for the systems’ new backwards-incompatible SKU’s. Featuring all-new reduced functionalities, the price drop brings the console within reach of middle-of-the-road consumers like Bill Gate’s half-brother.

In other news, the XBOX 360 sold five more units this week in Japan, a whopping 35% increase in sales from the three consoles they sold there last week.

Japanese Hardware Console Sales
August 6 - 16

Nintendo DS Lite - 147,025
Wii - 65,120
PSP - 32,147
PlayStation 3 - 21,321
PlayStation 2 - 12,545
Xbox 360 - 2,112
Game Boy micro - 366
Nintendo DS - 180
Game Boy Advance SP – 138

Source: PSU.com