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Cyber Monday Traffic Way Up, Xbox 360 Sales Hit Record

by Tim Stevens on December 2, 2008 at 10:53 AM

Cyber Monday Traffic Way Up, Xbox 360 Cleans House
Yesterday's news about holiday shopping was somewhat positive, with online shopping found to be up two percent on Black Friday compared to 2007, but the word that overall holiday shopping was down four percent sent the markets reeling. Today's news about Cyber Monday, though, is much more positive, with word coming in that there were 46 percent more shoppers online than last year!

The rate of shoppers yesterday was 6.7 million per minute, a massive figure that's nearly 50 percent higher than last year's 4.6 million. There's no word yet of final sales resulting from all that traffic, but it must be good, and Microsoft, for one, is spreading some joy, letting the world know that over the holiday weekend it sold 25 percent more Xbox 360 consoles than during the same period last year. An even better sign for the console, currently the cheapest of the current generation of gaming systems, is that it out-sold Sony's PlayStation3 by a three-to-one ratio. What we don't know is how well Nintendo's Wii sold, but one word comes to mind: gangbusters. [From: ZDNet, and Microsoft]

Tags: black friday, BlackFriday, business, cyber monday, CyberMonday, economy, hggnews, microsoft, retail, shopping, xbox 360, Xbox360

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