Sony Q2 PlayStation 3 sales up 86 pc yr/yr

TOKYO: Japan's Sony Corp said on Wednesday it sold 2.43 million units of its PlayStation 3 game console in July-September, up 86 percent from 1.31 million units a year earlier.

Sony, which competes with Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd in the Video game industries, sold 3.18 million units of its PlayStation Portable handheld machine in the latest quarter, compared with 2.58 million units a year earlier.