Xbox 360 set To Be Games War Winner

Merrill Lynch has said that Microsoft will win the upcoming games battle and their Xbox 360 will be the top selling console over the Sony PS3 and the Nintendo Wii.

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According to an International Business Times report citing Yoshiyuki Kinoshita, research analyst for Merrill Lynch, the Tokyo-based division for the financial giant has predicted: "The winner in the next-generation console battle is likely to be the Xbox 360, which is the leader in North America, the world's biggest market."

In addition, Kinoshita's research note revealed: "We forecast respective market shares [in March 2011] of Xbox 360 [at] 39 percent, PS3 [at] 34 percent and Wii [at] 27 percent, thus overturning Sony's domination.

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