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   Yet again, last month, Sony failed to reclaim a single piece of lost ground in its next-gen race against Nintendo, over in Japan. Whereas, back in April, the PlayStation 3 was selling there once every... 4 Wiis or so, things got even worse in May, when the abyss between the number of sold units for each console continued to widen visibly. And that, despite the PS3 shoving another fair amount of games on store shelves.

   So it's pretty clear that without a price cut for the PlayStation 3 in the near future, Sony has little chance to get back in the race. Especially if the recent Metal Gear Solid 4 rumours regarding an Xbox 360 version will turn out to be true (that would be the final blow). Until it takes a decisive measure, Sony can helplessly look at the latest sales figures estimated by the Japanese research firm Enterbrain (via Bloomberg):
"Nintendo sold 251,794 [Wii consoles] in May, outselling Sony's PlayStation 3 consoles five to one (...). The PS3 trailed the Wii by four to one in April."    Just as sad (for Sony) is the situation for their PSP, compared to the DS, the ratio also being about 5-to-1 in Nintendo's favour, according to the same report:
"Nintendo's handheld DS player outsold Sony's PlayStation Portable five to one in May, Enterbrain said. The company sold 620,670 of the touch-screen players, compared with 123,673 PSPs."    As for the Xbox 360... there's no more point taking it into consideration, when speaking about Japan. With only 11,000 units sold in May, Microsoft once again failed to make a stand. Although it is quite funny that they ended up measuring up to Sony, precisely like Sony measures up to Nintendo: X360 vs. PS3 - 1 to 5.