360 sells 310,000 in a week

Microsoft has shifted more than 310,000 consoles in the US during silly holiday Thanksgiving week, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

That is nearly the same amount of sales it chalked up for the entire month of October, when 366,000 noisy consoles flew off shelves.

Its impressive tally meant it outsold the PS3 the week after "Black Friday" by a margin of two to one, according to a CNBC article.

However, Nintendo still managed to beat both of its rivals with 350,000 units shifted for the week.

Despite that, Microsoft has said its software is on track to outsell both PS3 and Wii games combined. This is based largely on NPD figures for October, which showed 54 per cent of entire software sales in the Microsoft court, with 30 per cent for Wii and just 16 per cent for PS3.

But Sony America was having none of it and told GamesIndustry.biz it had its own secret NPD proof to suggest it wouldn't be the case.

Although with Drake's Fortune due to go on sale in December we expect the PS3 to gain significant sales.

We will have to twiddle our thumbs and wait until the next batch of NPD data, then. Exciting, this numbers lark.