MORE SALES FIGURE fun this week, with the news that Sony's PS3 has beaten Nintendo's Wii in Japan for entire month of November - the first time since the launch of both consoles a year ago that the PS3 was ahead of the Wii in terms of sales.

In the four weeks of sales ending Nov. 25 the PS3 sold 183,217 units in Japan compared to the Wii's 159,193 unit sales.

Even Nintendo was surprised.

Wii/DS
Despite the Wii being beaten, the DS is still doing incredibly well.

Sales of the Nintendo DS handheld in Japan rose over 50 per cent in the week ending November 25. The DS shifted over 116,000 units, most likely off the back of the release of Dragon Quest IV, and has now soared past 6 million sold in Japan this year and 20 million sold in Japan to date, according to Media Create.

Nintendo isn't just receiving money for each Wii console sold - the company has also just announced that the Wii Virtual Console service has generated $33 million USD.

According to Nintendo, 7.8 million items have been downloaded over the service, which offers old games from Nintendo and other publisher's back catalogues

Alternatively you could by a Gamecube for your retro needs. Maybe one designed around aStarwars AT-AT?

Here is the usual Wii Virtual Console round-up from Eurogamer.

PS3/PSP
Sony has updated Playstation Portable's firmware to version 3.73. The new firmware supposedly fixes a flaw with the UMD drive. Grab it now.

Variety is reporting (via Joystiq) that Sony is planning to bring high-definition video on demand content to the Japanese Playstation 3.

So far, the announced offerings on the service seem a little slim - a BBC documentary and some video about car racing to promote the Dec. 13 release of GranTurismo 5 Prologue.

Due to production costs, Metal Gear Solid 4 needs to sell over a million copies on its first day, according to one of the game's assistant producers, Ryan Payton.

Eurogamer has another best-of Christmas round-up, this time for the PSP.

Xbox 360
Microsoft revealed this week that it sold 310,000 during Black Friday week, which will likely contribute to the strongest week of the year for Xbox 360, rivaled only by the week of the Halo 3 launch.

Microsoft boasted to Next-Gen.biz that it outsold Playstation 3 by a ratio of 2:1, citing unspecified retail estimates.

Sony says Microsoft's claim of Xbox 360 outselling PS3 "are way off".

On Tuesday, the Xbox 360 will receive the much anticipated fall update for the dashboard. Microsoft has slowly released information about the update, disclosing the addition of Xbox Originals to the marketplace, the controversial Friends of Friends feature and Family Timer functionality, but 1UP has gone hands-on with the update to uncover all its virtual secrets.

Next-Gen.biz an interview with Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg explaining the update in fall.

Remember kids, playing Xbox 360 makes you fat. µ