Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Gloat

Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony have all responded to sales tracker NPD's figures for November. They're all, unsurprisingly, pleased. It's Nintendo that has the most to gloat over, however. It's gone and set some new sales records.

With its 2.04 million Wii sales, the company has set a new US record for an non-December month. It also claims, "The Nintendo DS system sold more than 1.56 million in November, which is now the second-highest total for a non-December month in history." The company's lifetime sales of the Wii are now up to 15.4 million in the US, while it has sold 24.6 million DSes in the region.

Microsoft, for its part, says the Xbox 360 has had its best November ever. It also states that, "With $298 million in third-party game sales in November, the Xbox 360 has generated more revenue at retail for third-party publishers than the PS3 and Wii combined this generation." This follows similar claims for the 360's performance in Europe over November.

Microsoft also trotted out its 8:1 software attach rate, as well as pointing out that the 360 outsold the PS3 and PS2 combined.

Sony, for its part, was grasping around a little more. It crowed about a total of more than a million hardware sales, a 93% growth on October. That's all well and good, but Nintendo sold more than 3.6 million hardware units in November. While we're at it - everyone in the games industry was likely to sell more units in November than they did in October thanks to the rapid approach of Christmas (whoops, the 'The Holidays', weren't they? Yes, they were.

Still, congratulations to everyone involved and all that...

^{Sources:
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