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Tuesday January 16, 6:00 PMPlayStation 3 console shipments in Japan reach 1 mil. units(Kyodo) _ The number of PlayStation 3 video game consoles shipped in Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. reached 1 million units Tuesday, the company said.Including shipments to the United States and Canada that exceeded 1 million units by the end of last year, global shipments have now attained the 2 million unit mark, it said. Given that only two months have passed since the company took the wraps off the console in November in Japan and North America, the company said the console cleared the 2 million mark at the fastest clip among the game machines the company has released. But Sony Computer Entertainment failed to attain its global shipment target of more than 2 million units within last year. The target had been given by the company's President Ken Kutaragi before the game console's launch. The company plans to boost cumulative PlayStation 3 shipments to 6 million units by the end of March. Its rival Nintendo Co., which launched its latest Wii game console in November, has indicated a plan to revise upward its cumulative Wii shipment target of 6 million units for the end of March. Nintendo may have outperformed Sony Computer Entertainment in the initial phase of the race to sell new game consoles, an industry analyst said. Sony Computer Entertainment also said game software shipped in Japan and the United States by various software houses for the Internet-capable PlayStation 3 exceeded 5 million units by Dec. 31. The number of users who have taken advantage of the console's various Internet-related functions such as game downloads has soared, with the number of registered user accounts for Web-based PlayStation Network services in Japan and the United States topping 500,000, the company said. The number of downloads of Gran Turismo HD Concept software that Sony Computer Entertainment began offering on Dec. 24 via the PlayStation Network exceeded 300,000 in just 20 days, it said. |
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