PS3 Tops Wii In Japan

TOKYO (Reuters) - According to the latest playstation 3 news Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo Co Ltd's Wii game console in Japan in November for the first time, raising the prospect that Sony might regain its dominance in the global video game market.Sony, which launched the playstation 3 console a year ago, sold 183,217 PS3 in Japan in the four weeks to November 25, topping sales of 159,193 Wii consoles, according to game magazine publisher Enterbrain, a key watcher of trends in the sector.Sony dominated the game industry for about a decade with previous generations of its PlayStations but lost its crown to the low-cost Wii with its new idea of a motion sensor in the control unit.This opened the way to a whole new range of video games and even exercise programs and helped expand the gaming population beyond core users of young males to women and the elderly.Will this trend continue for the PS3? According to analysts the latest data was encouraging for the prospects of the playstation 3 console, but it was too early to paint a rosy picture for the Sony machine.