A winning combination of the most critically acclaimed holiday lineup of exclusives in Xbox history, the New Xbox One Experience complete with Backward Compatibility, and an extensive line-up of console bundles, drove record Xbox One sales in the U.S. and Xbox Store sales worldwide, with record engagement from Xbox fans around the world over Black Friday week.

• Xbox fans around the world spent a total of 325 million hours gaming on Xbox Live this past week. Hours spent playing games on Xbox One last week were up 196 percent compared to Black Friday week in 2014, and time spent using Xbox apps increased a whopping 321 percent.
• Worldwide Xbox Black Friday sales in the Xbox Store broke records with an increase of 57 percent across Xbox One and Xbox 360, global Xbox Live Gold subscriptions were up over 40 percent, and U.S. Xbox One console sales at retail were up 22 percent over the same period last year, making it the second biggest Black Friday week in 15 years of Xbox history in the U.S.
• Total paid unique users in the Xbox Store also broke records with an increase of 55 percent across Xbox One and Xbox 360 compared to Black Friday week last year, with 88 percent growth on Xbox One alone.
• Hardware is hot this holiday – the Xbox One 500GB Gears of War: Ultimate Edition Bundle was the best-selling Xbox console bundle. The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller has been met with high demand and was sold out at most major U.S. retailers since launch and we are working hard with retailers to replenish stock.

So ps4 broke even more records

Moderated for being off topic - axum

So that means Xbox One is between 750,000 and 960,000 if I'm not mistaken? Impressive numbers.

Also worth noting Xbox breaks Xbox Friday Records, so there is a chance PS4 will come out on top. Title needs updated, they were very specific that Xbox breaks Xbox Black Friday records, and not Black Friday in general.

Note this is the second highest for Xbox, they only broke Live engagement records and not hardware sales.  

Edit: Looks like the title got fixed.  

Mill + confirmed?! 

Much better title than the other one.

Few questions for the panel

1. What is the best Black Friday performance in all console history?  

2. What is the best Black Friday performance week in the US for Xbox as a brand?

3.  Assuming PS4 passed this, how much world it have to sell to top PlayStations all time Black Friday in the US?

4.  Sould we be taking the +22% into account for our predictions or is it safe to assume that the Xbox One can not top November of 2014?

5.  Again what does this mean for PS4 Black Friday Numbers?  Are we talkign about 800k?  (770k for Xbox One if 2014 Chartz BF is to be belived. )  Never mind I did the math.  The PS4 would have sold around 791k BF week in the US.

Sounds good, even if PS4 might have done better.

So MS lost Black Friday confirmed?

I was under impression that last year were the biggest ever and this one being 20% over that and still be second make me confused. But maybe the key is bf day and week. Now let's wait for the math and how ps4 have done if sony don't give us pr

This just makes me more and more stoked for NPD. Gonna be good.