Sales of Nintendo's have rocketed in the over the previous week, outselling the by a ratio of two-to-one, and shifting ten times the weekly figure the console attained before the recent price-slash. With and the new Kart now fast approaching, will be hopeful that they can re-capture the number two spot from the Xbox, and this may indeed force into a of their own.

Meanwhile, the user base is expected to hit five-million soon and is streets ahead of the competition; a fact that is underlined by the resurgent Cube still being outsold four-to-one. An interesting Christmas ahead then for the impartial viewer, especially as we await Microsoft's response.

By Luke Guttridge