• Reuters , Friday, December 12, 2008 11 AM

I've scoured the wires high and low for some good news of the quantifiable variety to leave you with as we enter the weekend. I finally found it: U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 10% in November from a year earlier, according to NPD. The industry "continues to set a blistering sales pace," NPD analyst Anita Frazier says, with hardware and software sales strong even though this November had seven fewer shopping days than last year's.

Nintendo's Wii console sold over 2 million units in November, up from over 800,000 in the previous month, setting a record for console unit sales in a non-December month, Jennifer Martinez reports. And although Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 were both sharply outsold by the Wii, the two systems also boasted strong sales in November.

All we need now is a Wii game called "The Grownups Get Together and Agree on a Bailout Package That Makes Sense."

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