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Market analysis firm NPD has released its video game sales figures for June 2009…and the results are not pretty for the video game industry. According to NPD, compared to June of 2008 game sales fell since 29 percent to $625.8 million during the month, while hardware sales dropped a whopping 38 percent to $382.6 million. Sales of accessories also dropped 22 percent for the same period. Combined, the industry pulled in $1.17 billion for the month, which represents a 31 percent decline compared to a year ago—and that’s the biggest drop since the year 2000, when game sales slid a whopping 41 percent year-on-year.

The holiday season may be months in the past, but video games are still flying off shelves in the United States. The market research firm NPD Group released its results for March on Thursday, revealing that sales were up an impressive 57 percent from the same time last year, according to Reuters.

All told, the industry raked in $1.7 billion, including both hardware and software sales. The Nintendo Wii once again claimed the crown for leading console, with 721,000 units sold, tailed by closely by Nintendo’s mobile console, the DS, which sold 698,000 units. Microsoft barely edged out Sony with 262,000 Xbox 360 sales to 257,000 PlayStation 3 systems.

New numbers from the NPD Group indicate U.S. video game sales dropped by eight percent during March 2006, to a total of $499 million, amid an overal industry revenue drop of 16 percent for the month.

March would mark the seventh straight month that game sales in the United States have declined, even though the introduction of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 (and titles for that console) are estimated to account for $96 million, nearly a quarter of all video game revenue for the month.  Read more...