[US] PLAYSTATION 2 TO OUTSELL PS3 AND OTHER NEXT GEN CONSOLES IN 2007?

In a recent article on Business Week, Kenji Hall writes that the Sony Playstation 2 will outsell the PS3 in 2007.

“”The PS2 will have legs well into 2008,” says Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities in Los Angeles. And while Nintendo Co.’s Wii console is getting most of the industry buzz, and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has racked up big sales in its year on the market, some say the PS2 might even beat out each of those offerings in 2007. “The PS2 probably has the capacity to sell more than any other gaming” console, says Simon Jeffrey, chief operating officer at game maker Sega of America (see BusinessWeek.com, 12/28/07, “Sega Games the Systems”).

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