US video games sales hit record
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New games and consoles helped drive US video game sales to a record last year, figures show.
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U.S. sales of video game hardware  and software rose 28 percent in December from a year earlier as  holiday shoppers snapped up new consoles like Nintendo Co Ltd's  (7974.OS) top-selling Wii, market research firm NPD said on  Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp.'s alien-killer gaming thrill, "Halo 3," has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.
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U.S. sales of video game hardware  and software were $1.18 billion, with Nintendo Co Ltd's  (7974.OS) Wii console keeping a slim edge over rivals amid  ongoing supply constraints.
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Data from NPD indicates that video games and hardware sales in the US were up 46 percent in August from the previous year.
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Video game sales soared to a record $18.2 billion last year, but the days of strong growth are on pause as players await a new generation of consoles.
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Wii outsold rival PlayStation 3 by more than double in the United States in November as the freshly launched video game consoles vied with Xbox 360 for devotees, figures showed.
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U.S. sales of video games and  hardware jumped 46 percent in August from a year earlier, with  Microsoft Corp  seeing sales of its Xbox 360 console  shoot up after a price cut.
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s alien-killer gaming thrill, &quot;Halo 3,&quot; has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.
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Nintendo has said that it had sold more than 600,000 new Wii video game consoles in just eight days in North America in a boost to its efforts to wrest back market dominance from industry leader Sony.
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Nintendo Co. said consumers in the Americas snapped up more than 600,000 of its Wii video game systems in eight days, totaling about $190 million in sales, as it competes with Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation 3.
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U.S. sales of video game hardware  and software jumped 75 percent in September, driven by  Microsoft Corp's  "Halo 3" and Nintendo Co Ltd's   Wii console.
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Sony's game unit said Monday that it had sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America during the key year-end holiday shopping season.
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Ticket sales at the US box office reached a record high in 2004, despite a fall in the number of moviegoers.
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Nintendo says it has sold more than 600,000 of its new Wii consoles, since its launch eight days ago in the US.
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Video game sales soared to a record  $18.2 billion last year, but the days of strong growth are on  pause as players await a new generation of consoles in 2005 and  2006, a new study showed on Wednesday.
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Microsoft Corp's  "Halo 3"  video game set an opening-day U.S. sales record of $170  million, outdoing any video game or movie debut and giving the  company's money-losing entertainment unit a strong boost toward  profitability.