With Christmas looming ever closer, higher console sales shouldn't really come as any surprise. What may come as a surprise though, are the figures.

Video Game Chat takes a closer look at how each of the Big Three are fairing for the holiday season. Our final report looks into Microsoft's successes over Black Friday.

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Games wise, the last month has easily been one of the most generous months for gamers as far as top quality titles going, especially on the Xbox 360.

Call of Duty 4, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, and many other titles besides, have made for one of the strongest holiday games line-ups in years, and this is clearly keeping interest in the Xbox 360 amongst traditional gamers strong; and this is clearly noticeable than in the sales of the console itself.

The moral of the story? Gamers want good games.

Xbox 360 sales in October totalled 366,000+ , but Microsoft confirmed today that the Xbox 360 has sold over 310,000 in the Black Friday shopping week alone, outselling the PS3 2:1.

Tags : Assassins Creed : Black Friday : bungie : Call of Duty 4 : Halo : halo 3 : Holiday Season : Mass Effect : microsoft : PlayStation 3 : Sales : Sony : Xbox 360

Comments

By: Corrine On: 06:18 Nov 30th, 2007 Offline	Don't forget all the games that are still coming out in the coming months! The sexiness isn't over yet. Microsoft seems to be a little better in terms of keeping up with demand so far. That is, the demand isn't so prickly and the shipments aren't so scarce. They're doing fairly well. This is what success tastes like. <3

By: boa On: 06:40 Nov 30th, 2007 Offline	Microsoft are being damn clever this gen. They might even win it ^_^ Looks back at 360 release whoda thunk it?

By: Samuel On: 07:03 Nov 30th, 2007 Offline	Microsoft seem to have swept the market out from Sony's feet, with them so surprised by the move that they are barely keeping their footing. But the war isn't over yet, and tomorrow is a whole other day. Microsoft have won Christmas, but who knows what the new year will bring?

By: Dragonsoul On: 10:01 Nov 30th, 2007 Offline	I figured as much. It's too late for PS3 to catch up this year though indeed another year might bring something different. But clearly the software sometimes sells the hardware at least in this case. Microsoft are doing quite well.

By: Snake Plissken On: 10:15 Nov 30th, 2007 Offline	I must admit I am really getting sick of this whole console war thing, they are all different consoles which tend to have different games. So why not have peace? Lets start a campaign for an end to the console war. To stop trying to make it a glorious fact one console sells more then another and simply accept that different consoles have different strengths buy which ever ones we personally want and support those who choose a different one.

By: boa On: 06:03 Dec 1st, 2007 Offline	Because my friend, if we did that we would stop there being compotition. No compotition and the industry stops trying so hard. Do you really want to go down that road?

By: Snake Plissken On: 06:55 Dec 1st, 2007 Offline	There does not need to be competition, it is demand which drives the industry and pride which furthers it. Competition is just an ugly side effect of the consumers demand for games and the consoles and the creators pride in making them.

By: boa On: 07:04 Dec 3rd, 2007 Offline	if but it worked that way, what drives most pojects, not all but most, is the prospect of sales. Simple as. Although it's normally the publishers pushing it, rather than the developers themselves.

By: Snake Plissken On: 07:07 Dec 3rd, 2007 Offline	Games will sell if they are good to play consoles will sell if they have good games. Competition is not needed and in the end I think it's more hurtful to the industry then helpful.