Microsoft and Nintendo each plan to ship more than 1 million of their flagship game consoles to U.S. stores this holiday season, meeting previous expectations. Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube, both released last month, are being touted as two of the hottest holiday items. But the fierce competitors' success may depend on whether they have enough consoles on hand to meet shoppers' demand. Nintendo of America, based in Redmond, will ship 1.3 million GameCubes by the end of December. It will continue to replenish stores with 120,000 consoles a week through March, spokesman George Harrison said Monday.
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