Black Friday consumers buy 3,333 Xbox consoles per minute

Today, Microsoft reported record Black Friday week Xbox console sales — 960,000 units. That works out to roughly one per minute, assuming six-and-a-half days of sales (reduced for Thanksgiving Day). It's a phenomenal achievement for an aging console and demonstrates how Kinect and lower-entry cost 4GB models extend Xbox vitality as a platform. Microsoft describes the milestone as the "biggest week of sales in Xbox history".
However, the sales per minute is much higher for Black Friday — wel…