Sales of video game consoles continue to fall

Analysts say that videootrasl continues to reduce turnover and sales as game consoles and software for them continue to fall. At the end of February in the U.S. has sold video game consoles and games for them at 810 million dollars, which is 25% less than the same period a year earlier. Such data are now leading research firm NPD Group.

Hardware sales for the year fell by 36% in February, the U.S. market accounted for 244.2 million dollars, hardware sales with the implementation of the accessories for them were 352 million dollars - 27% lower than a year earlier.

Game console Microsoft Xbox 360 again topped sales in the U.S. market, the Xbox leader in sales for more than two consecutive years. In February, Microsoft sold 302,000 new consoles, which gives it a 41% market share. The great news is, for the new gaming console Nintendo Wii U, which still continues to be a disappointment to his creator. In January, Nintendo has sold just 57,000 Wii U in the States. However, this number is almost 40% more than in January, making the Nintendo nominal leader in terms of growth. Estimated to NPD, sales from the beginning of the end of last year, Nintendo had sold in the U.S. from 64 to 80 thousand consoles Wii U.


In NPD said that while talking about the failure of Wii U is still too early. At one time, the original Wii also started a long time, and then the sale of the development exploded. However, while the NPD sees no objective reasons for the growth of sales of Wii U to significant figures, even allowing for the fact that Nintendo has dropped in the U.S. market price of the console with a 350 to 300 dollars.

In addition, the NPD report says that the games have become the best-selling Dead Space 3, Call of Duty: Black Ops2 and Crysis 3.