U.S. Video-Game Retail Sales Tumble 15 Percent in June
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U.S. retail sales of video-game hardware, software and accessories fell 15 percent to $593.3 million last month as consumers moved to titles played on mobile devices and held out for next-generation consoles.
Hardware sales fell 30 percent to $142 million from a year earlier, Port Washington, New York-based NPD Group Inc. said in an e-mail yesterday. Software sales for current-generation consoles declined 10 percent to $296.1 million.