U.S. Video game sales plummet 31%

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's handheld DS were the only two systems to post sales increases in retail analyst NPD Group's otherwise disheartening June games industry sales report. Games hardware experienced the sharpest decline in June, plummeting 38% from $617m to $383m year-over-year, while video games software fell 29%, from $876m to $626m. Overall, retail games industry sales dropped 31%, from $1.7 to $1.2 billion, marking June as the worst period yet in a consecutive four-month year-over-year contraction.

PC World article