MICROSOFT Australia claims to have sold more than 1 million games for its Xbox console since the product made its local debut in March last year.

According to Microsoft, more than 2000 Xbox games are being sold every day across Australia, to be played on the 300,000 Xbox consoles that have been sold locally.

Around 847,000 PlayStation 2 consoles have been sold locally since launch in November 2000, with daily game sales presently near 9,000 units, according to Inform.