Sony Q3 PlayStation 3 sales fall

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday it sold 4.46 million units of its PlayStation 3 game console in October-December, down 9 percent from 4.9 million units a year earlier.

Sony, locked in a three-way battle with Microsoft Corp and Nintendo Co Ltd in the videogame industry, sold 5.08 million units of its PlayStation Portable handheld machine in the latest quarter, compared with 5.76 million units a year earlier.

(Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka)