Nintendo Wii Starts to Lose Steam

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February figures from research firm NPD show that the Nintendo Wii is still selling well in the US, but Microsoft’s (MSFT) Xbox is picking up its pace. The Wii sold 355,000 units during the month followed by Xbox at 228,000. The Sony (SNE) Playstation 3 continued to take a beating, selling only 127,000 units.

Microsoft retains a huge lead based on sales since each product was introduced. It was first to market by several months. Since product launch, the Xbox has sold 5.1 million units while the other two companies are still under 2 million.

If the Xbox and the games that work on its continue to gain share, Sony is in real trouble. The Wii caters to a different, lower price point in the market, and should continue to roll up big numbers. Not so the Playstation.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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