Ferrex pointed out a couple of URLs on RampancyHL that point to silly statistics offered by IGN's GameCube and Xbox sites. Both refer to the exact same report by Credit Suisse First Boston, yet each conclude that their respective console is winning the war.

IGN Cube reports:

The firm, which based its figures on NPD TRST data, estimated that more than 469,000 GameCube units and 810,000 pieces of software were sold to retailers during the system's launch week. Luigi's Mansion was, according to the analyst, the top selling game for any console during the period, selling through an estimated 257,000 units. Star Wars Rogue Leader and Wave Race: Blue Storm also sold strongly.

Xbox sales for the week were projected at 186,000 units for a total of 556,000 Microsoft consoles bought since the machine's release November 15. Halo was the system's best seller with 97,000 units shipped.

And IGN Xbox's story:

According to CSFB's interpretation of NPD TRST data, as of November 24, 2001, Nintendo had sold 469,000 GameCube consoles compared to 556,000 for Microsoft's Xbox. The Xbox had a three day head start on the GC with its November 15 launch date.

Xbox had most of its sales activity confined to the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before GameCube's launch on Sunday November 18. For the week beginning on Sunday Nov. 18 and ending Saturday Nov 24, the 'Cube outsold the 'box 469,000 to 186,000. Post Thanksgiving sales figures are still forthcoming and should give a good indication as to how well each system will do throughout the remainder of the holiday shopping season. With strong titles on the way for each console, the competition will be even more fierce.

We already reported on the NPD report a short while ago, which both PlanetXbox and ie Magazine say that NPD has stated the Xbox is selling more.

Silly journalists. Let's wait until we have some solid numbers before we declare any winners. Actually, I'd be more interested in seeing accurate numbers a year from now because they would tell a more interesting tale.