Microsoft Reports Record Black Friday Sales

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After a huge weekend of sales like the one that followed Black Friday, you’d expect companies to brag about their success. Nintendo got out there first, saying it had sold half a million Wiis during shop-heavy Friday along with tons copies of its big fall releases. Now Microsoft has released their numbers and with almost a million 360s sold, it looks like it beat Nintendo pretty handily in the hardware realm this Thanksgiving break.

As Microsoft put it in the press release “Xbox 360 sold more than 960,000 consoles in the U.S. alone, of which more than 800,000 were sold within a period of 24 hours.” The total apparently broke records for most 360s sold in a single week, which isn’t surprising given the lower price point and some of the really good deals that were out there for the system.

MS mentioned selling 750,000 Kinects in the US as well, which we’d bet is significantly more than the Move bundles sold last week.
It's worth noting that Microsoft didn’t brag about any software sales numbers like Nintendo, even though its big November release of Halo Anniversary came out the week before. Perhaps it’s nothing, but the lack of any boatful sales data is interesting. Perhaps the remake hasn’t been the Halo-sized hit we expected?

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Source: http://www.gamesradar.com/microsoft-sells-almost-million-360s-during-black-friday/

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Necklace_JrPosted:

Did anyone else pay their friends to go into Best Buy and buy as many 3 months as they could? I think my membership ends in about 3 - 5 years right now...

SecretsPosted:

Lol somebody in my city bought $10,000 worth of Xboxs. There was a deal and they got $3000 in gift cards.

pigPosted:

-TRiiXxy- whats black friday? lol im a brit :L

*facepalm*

HerpPosted:

our walmart open at 10pm thanksgiving night and the had a 250g xbox bundle for 200$

Aim_So_HardPosted:

JoshUS
-TRiiXxy- whats black friday? lol im a brit :L

Crazy day where people go to stores at like 3 a.m. (for example, sometimes earlier) to go shopping for good deals. Almost every store participates, and most things are over 50% off, 40% off, etc.

(REALLY) good deals

I gotta friend that comes from the uk just for thanksgiving and black friday lol :)

JoshUSPosted:

-TRiiXxy- whats black friday? lol im a brit :L

Crazy day where people go to stores at like 3 a.m. (for example, sometimes earlier) to go shopping for good deals. Almost every store participates, and most things are over 50% off, 40% off, etc.

(REALLY) good deals

-TRiiXxy-Posted:

whats black friday? lol im a brit :L

liamf2011Posted:

the new halo seems like only hardcore halo fans would buy the game:P so im not surprised