NPD Data Shows Xbox 360 with Continued Strength

According to the most recent NPD data, Microsoft had another massive month in November, outpacing the competition by nearly 2 to 1. Microsoft had already revealed that they had a great Black Friday, but the final tally for the month of November showed that the company sold 1.7 million Xbox 360's in the year's biggest month.

The gap between the Xbox 360 and the next best selling system was the largest in years, according to NPD analyst Anita Frazier.

"The gap between 360 sales and sales of the next best selling platform was the largest we've seen since December 2008 when the Nintendo DS was the top selling system."

While Microsoft moved around 1.7 million consoles, Nintendo sold approximately 860,000 Wiis, as well as 795,000 3DS units and 350,000 DS units. As has become the standard of NPD announcements, Sony did not announce their specific sales data, but did provide the following response.

"PlayStation 3 is off to a phenomenal start to the holiday season, recording the best ever Black Friday sales period in the console's five-year history."

All in all, it looks like each console maker saw success in the holiday season to varying degrees.

By Al McCarthy on December 12, 2011

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Allen
Xbox is doing good, numbers for the holiday season have put it above all others, even world wide.
that – is the power of the online market. In the US 360 is kicking so much ass that the lead PS3 has world wide isn’t helping enough. PS3 did sell like 200,000 in the US only but 360 sold like 500,000 in the US only. Been that way for a couple weeks now.
Once again – not so proud to be an American.
All we can do is hope that PS4 comes out at the same time as 720. Then it won’t have the online market by default.
- Cool dude
  And why are you not proud to be an american?
- Allen
  Not so proud to be an American because it’s my country that keeps supporting Xbox over playstation. When everyone else in the world knows Xbox’s place, especially Japan.
  And no the online market does not mean Amazon. It means that this generation online play is a Major factor and that the 1 year headstart gave Xbox the online market by default. It was the only one out, no one had any other options, then friends had to buy Xbox because that’s what their friends already had.
  That’s the online market. Now if games were cross platform then it wouldn’t come down to that, it wouldn’t matter what your friends have. But that’s simply not the case, so by default Xbox is bought up by friends that want to play with friends.
  Just like COD – I’d love to take a look at how many they sold on last gen consoles compared to this gen. Because I remember GTA (a single player game) holding highest units sold, not online play shooters.
bigjershby
if i was sony i would be like “im sorry i didnt know releaseing a fragile product was a sucessfull sells booster” or something like that j/k
- Cool dude
  Allen has changed for the better but you havent. Just go away…
Lolall3n
Lol online market.
- Cool dude
  I think he means Amazon and that crap.
Dovahkiin
Can’t wait for next generation.
bigjershby
cool dude ur just a troll
http://www.gamespot.com/news/xbox-360-failure-rate-542-6215590
im not going to take the time to dig up other shit for ur dumbass IN FACT in 2008 there was a servay of users with over 70% of users having to get theres 360s fixed twice
dont troll r question me bitch u dont know me im sure as hell have not nor have 1 shread of a reason 2 lie about shit!!
(FOR COOL DUDE ONLY)
Titan
I doubt anything can compare to GTA but halo 2 had quite a few sales last generation, largely due to its online set up.