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Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii games beat out next-gen sales on Black Friday

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 owners came out in force on Black Friday, accounting for more sales of games than next-generation buyers, according to initial reports from analysts.

Doug Creutz, an analyst at Cowen & Co., wrote in a research note that Amazon’s top seller data for Black Friday suggests that current-generation games came back with a vengeance. Gamers stopped buying those titles briefly during the Nov. 15 launch of Sony’s PlayStation 4 and the Nov. 22 launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One. But by the time Black Friday came around, all of the top 20-selling titles on Amazon were current-generation games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.