PlayStation 3 Still Last

US sales for the Playstation 3 rose dramatically last month following a 100-dollar price cut, according to sales figures released Friday by rsearch firm NPD. But the Sony-made gaming console still lags behind both the Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360. US retailers sold 159,000 PlayStation 3s last month, compared to 98,500 in June after Sony cut the price on the game machine in early July by 100 dollars to about 500 dollars. Retailers sold 170,000 Xbox 360s last month and 425,000 Nintendo Wiis. Sony's venerable PlayStation 2 outsold its younger sibling, with consumers snatching up 222,000 of the aging machines. Overall total July sales of video game hardware, software and accessories were up 37 per cent from the same month last year to 925.5 million dollars. The top games were Electronic Arts' NCAA Football 08, Activision's Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s, and Nintendo's Wii Play.