Xbox 360 sold more than 750,000 consoles in the U.S. alone on Black Friday – exceeding internal forecasts

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Euphoria14 said:

mrstickball said:
Very good for Microsoft. I bet no one would of imagined that a 7 year old console would be selling that well on a holiday. Anecdotally, it makes sense. Every shopping cart I saw had an Xbox 360, while the pallet (and I'm talking a huge physical pallet) of Wii's was still sitting while every other item was essentially snapped up.

2013 is the 360's last hurrah for BF sales.. I imagine they'll drop the price to $99 as the next Xbox launches. Either way, the 360 has had one of the most incredible runs in the history of gaming.

In general this entire generation has been incredible. Who expected 3 consoles to surpass 70M?

I don't think anyone did. I thought that they'd all hit about 50 million. But both publishers and gamers have responded well to the increased hardware cycle, and its benefitted everyone, really.