June video game sales decline again, NPD says
Market researcher NPD Group says U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories dropped to $1.1 billion in June, down 6 percent from a year earlier.
NPD says hardware sales climbed 5 percent to $401.7 million in June. Sales of the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 were particularly strong.
Software sales, meanwhile, tumbled 15 percent, to $531.3 million.
Total industry sales for the year through the end of June were down 9 percent to $6.66 billion compared with the same six-month period last year, NPD says.
Even so, says NPD analyst Anita Frazier, the industry could still pull in $20 billion for the full year. A strong slate of games to come, and new motion controllers from Sony and Microsoft will likely give games a boost, she says.
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