One year ago, the Xbox video game system was the new kid on the block. Today, Microsoft Corp. confirmed that Xbox was a top holiday seller and is now firmly entrenched in the No. 2 market position in the United States and Europe. According to the NPD Funworld TRSTS December 2002, Xbox significantly widened the gap between the competition, established itself as the clear No. 2 video game platform and brought the overall next-generation market share for Xbox to 24 percent. Xbox console sales in December had a year-over-year growth of 48 percent, which was the highest among all next-generation platforms for the month according to the NPD data. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Xbox also won additional market share, bringing the European share of Xbox to 19 percent (ChartTrack and GfK, November 2002).
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