Video game sales drop 21 percent in US as kids remember there's an outdoors

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Normally the holidays are good to video game sales. This year, though, not so much. According to NPD (http://www.engadget.com/tag/npd) game sales in December were down 21 percent over the same time last year, to just $3.99 billion. Hardware sales took an even larger nosedive, plummeting 28 percent, and accessories dropped 27 points. For the full year, video game sales were down 8 percent compared with 2010, and even digital sales suffered. Downloadable content, in app purchases, subscriptions and other non-physical media gaming sales totaled between $16.3 and $16.6 billion -- down 2 percent from last year. And, in case you're interested, the best selling game of the year was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/callofduty) -- shocker!

http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/13/video-game-sales-drop-21-percent-in-us-as-kids-remember-theres/