US video game sales fall for 10th-consecutive month, down 24 per cent in September
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – U.S. retail sales of new video-game hardware, software and accessories fell 24 per cent in September.
It marked the 10th-consecutive month of declining sales as the gaming world holds off buying ahead of the release of Nintendo’s Wii U console next month
Research firm NPD Group says that sales fell to $848 million from $1.11 billion a year earlier.
Sales of video games themselves, excluding PC titles, fell 18 per cent to $497.4 million. Sales of hardware such as the Xbox 360 fell 39 per cent to $210.9 million, and accessories sales fell 11 per cent to $139.9 million.
The bestselling title of the month was Electronic Arts’ “Madden NFL 13,” followed by Take 2 Interactive’s “Borderlands 2” and EA’s “FIFA Soccer 13.”
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