Opening Bell <final version> - 18 Jun 2013
North American home video game market in May Monthly trends: market sluggish. Software also strong not lead to the growth of hard 3DS
North American home video game market size of May 2013 (down 25 percent year-on-year) $ 380 million, according to a major U.S. research firm NPD.
Hard $ 090 million (down 31 percent) and soft $ 170 million (down 31 percent), accessories (peripherals) $ 110 million (down 6 percent).
In total 437,000 units hard sales volume (33% decrease).
In the main model-specific, 114 000 units (flat), 36 000 units (48% decrease), Nintendo 3DS is Wii U 8.4 million units (34% decrease), and Wii 11.4 million units (29% decrease), and the PS3 Xbox360 but it is 3.6 million units.
Software unit sales has become a (26% decrease) 5.165 million in total this. Only 3DS 6 1.5 million copies software sales number's were higher than in the same month on models who have passed more than a year after release (60% increase).
Contributed by the first party title 97 000 book: "DARKMOON LUIGI'S MANSION" and (5 months) was released in late March and 90,000 books "DONKEY KONG COUNTRY RETURNS 3D".