According to news source, Sony only managed to sell 490,700 PS3 consoles in the United States for the month of December. Research firm NPD, put the total estimated sales from launch to end of 2006 to be around 687,700 PS3s. NPD report shows that during the December Microsoft and Nintendo has sold around 1.1 million Xbox 360 and 604,200 Wiis. With advantage of releasing Xbox 360 one year earlier, Microsoft has built up nice penetration of their console. A lot of the Xbox 360 sales can be attributed to great line up of games such as Gears of War and anticipation of future game releases. In total, consumers spent $3.7 billion on video games during the holiday season.

“There was clearly a huge dearth of inventory of PS3s,” said Anita Frazier, an analyst with NPD Group, who added that Sony “could have sold multiples of that figure if they could have provided supply to retail.”

“This was the biggest month yet for Xbox 360 hardware sales, but is pretty in line with what an established system can do during the holidays,” Frazier said.

“Xbox 360 is now poised to really take advantage of its lead in this generation’s race, provided they (and third-party supporters) keep bringing the games to market that keep consumers wanting to play on that system,” Frazier said.

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