Yeah I wish both companies could do that. Well I guess we are gonna have to wait for NPD

I find it odd how demand around where I'm at differs so vastly from the majority of the United States. I went to three stores at 10, 12, and 5 in order to finally grab a PS3. It and the 3DS were the first items to sell out at all locations (normally the PS3, with the 3DS shortly following), yet it seems like Wii and the 360 were the winners of the week.

I must have crummy luck... it's a good thing I was only going for a new PS3.

You got to realise that there wasn't the same amount of PS3s as there was 360s. Like as soon as they sell 360s they had plenty in the backstore waiting to replace the sold ones. The same thing couldn't be said about the PS3 where if they sold 100 that's all there was to sell and it went out of stock while after 100 360s they still had another 100 ready to be sold and people thought PS3s must sell better since there wasn't much units on shelves.

That's why shipping is very important during this time of the year. It's easy to run out of stock and if demand is there they'll ship more, that's what Microsoft did, demand for Kinect was there so they shipped way more than both Sony and Nintendo.

I'm sure a lot of the Kinnect sales where standalone pretty much every store had it on sale for $99 on Black Friday.

Damn! Great numbers!

These numbers are incredible.

I'm guessing Kinect + Call of Duty have turned it into the all around family box in the US this holiday season, with some helping from Skyrim.

It looks like Microsoft will be blowing people's expectations out of the water this month.

And it really implies that whatever new Xbox we see next year won't be the 360's true successor. The two new consoles idea is starting to hold some real weight. I could totally see an inexpensive media center Xbox showing up next year, with a fully priced and incredibly powerful next gen offering showing up a 1-1.5 years later. The 360 should keep selling just fine in the US all the while.

It seems Colbert was right...

"We're back! We're buying stuff we don't need, with money we don't have, for people we don't like. U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A"

These are seriously good numbers, though.

That's just amazing, I'm shocked. Just speechless, MS just shut me up. My God!

Quite amazing sales.

Obviously expected PS3 to get 3rd place, but for those saying the 360 did this because it had such good deals...are you serious? Not like the Wii and PS3 didn't have just as good or better sales at certain stores.

It did it because of the demand, not because the sales were any better.

Its probably because microsoft made sure to stock more then enough consoles to meet demand. Just a little example. A store can sell 30 ps3s and be out of stock if that was its entire stock while the same store could have sold 100 360s and still not be sold out if it had 150 in stock.