Nintendo’s Wii may be in the lead, but Sony is looking to reach the 150 million sales mark for its PlayStation 3 video-game console within the next few years.

Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony’s PS3 game-console division, told E3 convention attendees last week that sales of the original PlayStation reached 102 million units since 1994. The popular PlayStation 2, now in its ninth year on the market, has sold 140 million units. Hirai hopes the PS3 will outpace its predecessor

in a similar day frame.

“It’s not fun for me replicating the PS2 numbers. I’ve seen that movie already,” he said. “I want to try to see whether we can exceed the PS2 numbers after nine years, otherwise why are we in that business?”

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