Xbox 360 sales increase 88 percent in June, give it US console crown for the month
7/16/2010 06:54:00 PM
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U.S. sales of video games fell 6 percent in June to $1.1 billion after the strong appeal of Nintendo Co., Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. consoles failed to offset weak game purchases.Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sales gained 88 percent to 451,700 units after it introduced a slimmer version of its console with a larger hard drive. It was the second-largest non-holiday month of sales for the Redmond, Washington-based company’s Xbox 360, behind the September 2007 release of the game Halo 3, research firm NPD Group said today in a statement.
Nintendo sold 422,500 Wii consoles in the U.S. in June, a 16 percent increase from a year earlier, NPD said. Sales of Tokyo-based Sony’s PlayStation 3 jumped 85 percent to 304,800 units in June.
Nintendo’s DS handheld video-game player sales fell by a third after the Kyoto, Japan-based company said it’s introducing a version equipped with three cameras, a wireless connection and a screen that displays 3-D images without the use of special glasses. The company plans to start selling the 3DS player before March 2011, prompting a 39 percent decline in May.
Games sales fell 15 percent to $531 million, hurt by a relatively weak lineup of large-franchise titles as game publishers hold major releases for the second half of the year, which historically delivers higher sales.
Red Dead Redemption, from New York-based Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., remained the top-selling video game for a second month, with 963 million units purchased, NPD said. Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy 2 sold 548 million units.
“Sales are more concentrated this year on the top-selling games,” NPD analyst Anita Frazier said in the statement.
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