GameCube Overtakes Xbox in US?

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Well, not in total sales I imagine, but GameSpyDaily is reporting:

"Save the release of Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion, the Metroid series hasn’t been in the spotlight much over the last few years. With the series return to the spotlight a few weeks ago, Nintendo of America announced extremely positive results for the series, specifically Metroid Prime earlier today. According to Nintendo, Metroid Prime sold a quarter of a million copies during its first week available for GameCube, figures that pass sales of the Xbox Live Starter Kit by 50 percent in retain outlets. This, combined with the recent release of Resident Evil Zero, Nintendo continues, has around half a million teen and older gamers playing the GameCube games by the end of the Thanksgiving weekend.
The news on the Nintendo front continues to shine today as Nintendo also announced that the positive results of Metroid Prime and other titles have pushed GameCube into second place in terms of hardware for the month of November. Furthermore, on the Game Boy Advance side of things, Nintendo reports that sales of Metroid Fusion exceeded 100,000 units during the same aforementioned period of time."

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Well It seems like a good week for Gamecube all round well apart from Europe. But is this really the good Gamecube fans have been looking for with no actual console numbers being stated by Nintendo is this just another Mario taking sales a 1000 or so unit above Xbox for a week or so, Or is this really a turning point in the war?