The $100 price cut on 60GB PS3 worked its magic and the PS3 sales were up 61 percent in US for month of July according to NPD Group. But PS3 wasn’t able to pass Xbox 360 in sales, it fell short by 11,000 units. Over all Microsoft sold 170,000 Xbox 360 where as Sony sold 159,000 PS3 units. Nintendo sold 425000 Wii units that’s more then double what Microsoft sold. The bad news for Microsoft is that the number of Xbox sold declined from 198,400 units that were sold in June. In portable player market Nintendo sold 405,000 DS units and Sony sold 214,000 PSP units.