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Video game sales fall for a sixth straight month

Posted Sep 11th 2009 8:30AM by Mark Fightmaster (RSS feed)
Filed under: Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Electronic Arts (ERTS)

So much for the notion that video game sales would turn around in August. Slumping sales pushed the slide for video game sales to six straight months. During August, 15% fewer games were sold than a year earlier, and the drop was more than industry analysts expected.

Just because the overall sales dropped, it doesn't mean that some companies didn't turn in a good month. Sony (NYSE: SNE) saw sales increase, thanks to the company's decision to slash the price of its wildly popular PlayStation 3.

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