Xbox 360 nearly doubles the sales of the Wii U during the week of Black Friday

The holiday sales spike was very kind to Microsoft as the console  manufacturer sold loads of hardware and software.

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Consumers picked up 750k of the Xbox 360 console, which launched seven years  ago. That’s compared to 400k Wii U consoles that Nintendo  announced selling in the same time frame. Of course, that’s comparing apples  to pomegranates that are out of season and are difficult for consumers to find  at the store.

Xbox Live Gold subscriptions also saw a boost during the post-Thanksgiving  shopping spree. Microsoft sold 50 percent more subscription cards compared to  the same week in 2011. The online service hosted over 14 million concurrent  players on Sunday, November 25.

Software sales were supposedly brisk as well, but Microsoft would only say  that Halo 4′s Black Friday performance “exceeded expectations.”

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