Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 video game console's weekly sales jumped to a record in Japan following the introduction of a slimmer, cheaper model, research firm Enterbrain Inc. said.
The new PS3 sold 150,252 units in the four days since it went on sale last Thursday, the Tokyo-based researcher said.
Sales for that week reached 150,832 consoles, the highest since the machine's debut in Japan on Nov. 11, 2006, Enterbrain said. It didn't state the previous record.
Sony last week cut the domestic price of the PS3 by 25 percent to ¥29,980 with similar reductions worldwide and introduced a model that is one-third the size of the original and consumes 34 percent less power.
Microsoft Corp. followed with a $100 reduction for its most expensive Xbox 360 player to $300. Nintendo Co. kept the price of the Wii at $250.
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