Microsoft’s Xbox 360 out sold Sony’s PlayStation 3 in Japan in September. This is the first time ever Xbox 360 beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony’s home market.

Strong growth has come after Microsoft cut prices for its game console last month. 53,547 units of Xbox 360 were sold in the month September while PlayStation manage to sell only 33,071 units. Nintendo continue to keep their market position by having sold 109,548 units of the Wii during the month September.

In order to lift sales, Microsoft on Sept. 11 cut the price of the Xbox 360 Arcade, which comes without a hard disk drive, by 8,000 yen ($76) to 19,800 yen. It also lowered the price of the high-end Elite model by 8,000 yen to 39,800 yen.
Sony sells the PS3 with a 40-gigabyte hard disk drive for 39,980 yen, while Nintendo offers the Wii for 25,000 yen.

In hand held video game market Nintendo sold 234,477 units of its DS, compared with 109,274 units of Sony’s PlayStation Portable. Nintendo expects to boost their market share by introducing DSi in November 1 in Japan.