Console sales!

[shadowyoshi]

Sales figures are in for the Christmas period in North America and it's the Xbox 360 which comes out on top.

Despite the allure of the newly released Wii and PlayStation 3, it was Microsoft's Xbox 360 which came out of the Christmas season with the most sales - albeit by a nose.

With limited supply of the PlayStation 3 and Wii, the Xbox 360 was sitting ready and waiting to be snapped up by gift-frenzied shoppers. According to US retail market watcher NPD, approximately two million Xbox 360 consoles were sold between the beginning of November and Christmas Day.

The Wii faired well, shifting 1.8 million units from launch (November 19) until Christmas Day, and had the console arrived earlier in November would have likely been the biggest seller for the period.

It was the PlayStation 3 that suffered most though, with sales of only 750,000 units from its November 17 launch until Christmas Day.

Although no exact figures are available for December, you can estimate based on the systems' November figures: 511,000 Xbox 360s, 476,000 Wiis and 197,000 PS3s. This means during December up until Christmas day, approximately 1.5 million Xbox 360s were sold, 1.3 million Wiis and 550,000 PlayStation 3s.

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I'm not too surprised that 360 came on top, considering the availability.

Sony killed themselves with the small amount of consoles.

[falcoking]

Sweet, I havn't gotten to play the Wii yet but my friends say its awesome and by the looks of it is.

[Trilight]

It is really cool hence the reason of this site but also the actual selling of the P$3 were hurt due to the $599.99 tag.

[falcoking]

I know people said the day the p$3 came out they were selling for a thousand dollars. Woah! that is way to much for ONLY a game system and controller.

[shadowyoshi]

Well those "people" are retarded. And you should go to trustworthy game sites for your souces.

[falcoking]

Well no Duh, some idiots were saying that they "STOLE" a Wii because Nintendo was so stupid they didn't realize it, but those people were lying, I mean Sony wouldn't even be that stupid.........Well i could take that back ona counta their so stupid to sell their systems for So much. huhuhuh I'm outta breath. What about the PsP i mean $199.99 and what a Awesome name for it the plastation portable, Wooh! They need better names I mean Ps1-2-3 WOW
XboX-then 360-these are some names, Nintendo-Super nintendo-Nintendo 64-Gamecube-Wii.
Wooooh! Also the most amount of systems its the all time record (the only record though)
NONE of them were as expensive as $599.99+tax may i offer, also rumour or internet has it that Microsoft and Sonys New games aren't going to be $49.99 they will become $59.99.
NOW I'm done. chirp chirp chirp