Videogame software sales for the month of October rose 6% year-over-year to $605 million, while accessory sales for the industry increased 18% on the introduction of Sony’s PlayStation Move motion controller, according to NPD (via Bloomberg).
The gains were not enough to offset a 30% annual decline in both console and portable hardware unit sales, which brought overall industry revenue down by 4% during the month.
The Xbox 360 system, however, did see a year-on-year sales gain in October — perhaps in anticipation of Microsoft’s Kinect, which went on sale Nov. 4. Microsoft separately reported that sales of the Kinect topped 1 million units in the device’s first 10 days (via Information Week); the company expects to sell 5 million Kinect systems by year’s end.
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