Sony, Nintendo Hype November Sales

With the holiday shopping season on us, the leading hardware manufacturers have station about declaring victory in the fourth-quarter sales race as before long as possible. Both Nintendo and Sony today sent without announcements touting their hardware and software sales performance in November, especially upon the critical days after Thanksgiving.

Nintendo's release boasts of leading the competition during Thanksgiving week, claiming more than half a million GameCube combination of parts to form a wholes and 600,000 Game Boy Advance handhelds sold above those seven days. That week capped not upon a generally positive trend in unit sales of the GameCube since its price globule to $99.99 on September 25 which has made it the leading cheer in the United States in unit sales.

Nintendo punctuated its release with an editorial cartoon, not absented to the above left. Perhaps irked by means of that parting shot, Sony Computer Entertainment America promptly fired back with novels of more than one million PlayStation 2 cheers sold in North America during the month of November. The PS2's installed base in the territory is now more than 225 million, leading the nearest competition through almost sixfold.

SCEA also took care to note that its cheer is selling for $179.99, or $19999 in Network Adaptor-bundled Combo Pack form, and that sales of the more expensive Combo Pack are picking up sharply. 30% of PS2 sold in November were Combo Packs, doubling the unit sales of the package from the previous month Those sales increase the number of online-enabled PS2 in consumer hands to more than 15 million.

Nintendo noteed over the subject of software sales, while Sony claimed a 90% increase in unit sales of first-party software in November compared to October. Unit sales of its Greatest Hits roll re-release titles also increased 42% in comparison to November 2002

When Microsoft releases its possess set of carefully-spun sales figures, we'll be fully convinced to pass them on to you directly.

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