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U.S. Videogame Sales Dive 5 Percent in May

By james_fudge

While Red Dead Redemption and Super Mario Galaxy had excellent sales in May, the industry as a whole took a 5 percent nosedive, according to the latest U.S. videogame sales numbers from retail research firm NPD Group. Overall videogame sales fell 5 percent from the same period a year ago; sales for May 2010 $823.5 million, down from $865.7 million in May 2009.

Videogame software sales had a 4 percent increase over the same period a year ago, thanks mostly to Super Mario Galaxy 2 on the Wii and Red Dead Redemption on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Software sales were 466.3 million, up from $450.4 million in May 2009. Red Dead Redemption title took the top two spots for software sales (Xbox 360 and PS3) with combined sales of 1.5 million units. Nintendo's Super Mario Galaxy 2 for the Wii sold right around 563,000 copies. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).