Microsoft announced yesterday record sales of the Xbox 360 game console in the United States during the month of November, which was listed at 1.7 million units. The company says that the Xbox 360 is the only current-generation game console that sold more than one million units and the number nearly doubled the second-place console.
- Holding 49 percent share of the overall current-generation console market, Xbox 360 sold 1.7 million units in November, maintaining the number-one console spot in the U.S. for 2011. This marks the ninth consecutive month Xbox 360 has had more than 40 percent of the current-generation console market share, and eleventh straight month the Xbox was the top selling console in the U.S.
- Xbox 360 unit sales grew 23 percent year over year in November.
- Total retail spend on the Xbox 360 platform in November (hardware, software and accessories) reached $1.4 billion, the most for any console in the U.S.
- During the month of November, Xbox 360 held four of the top 10 console game titles including: “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3,” “Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,” “Assassin’s Creed: Revelations” and “Battlefield 3”.
Microsoft revealed last month that it sold 960,000 Xbox 360 units during the week of Black Friday, with 800,000 sold in a period of 24 hours.
