Nintendo still dominated the Japan market in July, but Sony's Playstation 3 did close the gap a little. The ratio was 4:1 last month according to the latest sales numbers. The Xbox 360 was a distant third.

Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Wii game console outsold Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 by a ratio of over 4 to 1 in Japan in July, game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Friday.

Nintendo sold 396,752 units of the Wii in the five weeks ended July 29, compared with 91,987 units of the PS3.

The PS3, packed with Sony's cutting-edge technology such as a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player, has been lagging the Wii in sales since their launches late last year due to PS3's high price and scarcity of strong software titles.

In June, the ratio was 6 to 1 in favor of the Wii.

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