A combination of Kinect and Microsoft’s biggest Black Friday week ever propelled the Xbox 360 to the top of NPD Group’s sales chart for the sixth month in a row.

Microsoft sold 1.37 million Xboxes in the U.S. during November, according to new NPD data — a 68 percent jump in sales from a year ago. The Nintendo Wii trailed with 1.2 million units sold. Sony has not released NPD sales figures for its PlayStation 3.

“Certainly Kinect was an accelerant to the business,” Xbox spokesman David Dennis told seattlepi.com. “We certainly felt like we had a hit on our hands before launch, and it’s great to see consumer validation of that.”

One week ago, Microsoft announced it had sold more than 2.5 million Kinect motion senors in the 25 days since it launched Nov. 4. The Xbox add-on, which allows gamers to control games and entertainment without a hand-held controller, is shaping up to be a hot item for the holiday shopping season.

“The 360 platform accounted for over 40 percent of total industry sales driven by the successful launch of Microsoft’s Kinect,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier said. “Xbox 360 accessories accounted for 60 percent of that category’s dollar sales this month.”

It was the biggest November on record for both Microsoft and the video-game industry as a whole, NPD said. Overall industry sales hit $2.76 billion for an 8 percent year-over-year increase. Hardware accounted for $1.05 billion, up 2 percent from November 2009.

Year to date, however, video-came sales were still down 5 percent from last year.

“Call of Duty: Black Ops,” which was released for all three main platforms Nov. 9, accounted for one-quarter of all software units sold last month.

“‘Black Ops’ debuted as the best-selling game in its launch month (in history) with ‘Black Ops’ selling 8.4 million units at retail in the U.S.,” Frazier said. “With only one month of sales, it has become the seventh best-selling game of all time, life-to-date.”

Here were the top 10 game titles for November: