Article: XBOX FIRM ENTRENCHED IN NUMBER 2 MARKET POSITION.

One year ago, the Xbox(TM) video game system was the new kid on the block. Today, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) 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 ...

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