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Looking back at the holiday sales for the past few years, I compared Black Friday week with Christmas. What I found was that usually Christmas is bigger than Black Friday in sales, especially for portables. The odd thing I found was that least year, the Xbox 360 had a much bigger Black Friday than Christmas.

Black Friday 2011
Xbox 360 1,302,261
Wii - 866,825
PS3 - 832,249

Christmas 2011
Xbox 360 1,072,725
Wii 874,914
PS3 - 885,066

What caused this paradox?