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Video Game Sales Up, Up and Away

by Tim Stevens on July 24, 2007 at 09:09 AM

Video Game Console Sales Soaring

Market research firm NPD has reported video game hardware and software sales for the month of June and, when compared to last year's results, there's some impressive growth to be seen. Overall video game sales are up by 31 percent compared to last year, largely spurred on by the hugely popular Nintendo Wii, of which Nintendo moved 381,800 units in the month. The little white box outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 at 198,400, which itself more than doubled the sales of Sony's PlayStation 3, which sold only 98,500 units.

But, it's not all bad news for Sony. The company's handheld PSP game system, which had been struggling to keep up with Nintendo's overwhelmingly popular DS, saw impressive sales of 230,000 units, making it the third-most-popular console of the month. However, it still couldn't match the DS, which racked up 561,000 sales -- the most of any system over the period. With Nintendo locking up the two top hardware spots, it's that the company's expanded focus on non-gamers is paying off in a big, profitable way.

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