August hardware sales slip by 39 percent

hardware sales jump if there is games worth it like crysis 2 ,battlefield 3, hard core games 

These kinds I stories are stupid. Of course there's a decline in hardware sales, there's no good games during the summer to sell hardware for. Now wait for this fall/winter when all the new games games release. Then well get the "hardware sales jump over holidays". Duh, gee really??

ive been overdue to buy a new system for a while now, but why bother when they dont make any games i wanna play anymore? 

There was a mario game and darksiders 2 this month... anything else was secondary bullcrap. Duh sales weren't big.

Who cares anyway? Come the end of September (releases such as JSR HD, DOA 5, Borderlands 2) will be good, and then october explodes into november. It always works like that.

Too bad it doesn't look like GTA V this fall though :;(

This is why I can't imagine Sony and Microsoft not releasing new consoles next year, they've milked this gen about as much as they can and it is time to move on.

Also funny that Black Ops outsold MW3 (as it should be).

I suspect that the sales of 2005 model cars is down as well.  The gaming industry is fortunate to have milked current gen hardware sales for this long.

hahahha black ops old sold MW3, it's great to that gamers finally realize when a product is literally rehashed excrement with a $60 dollar price tag!

Maybe it has something to do with how there are around 44 million people in the U.S on food stamps? Just saying.

Hello its summertime games always take a back burner during that time every year it happens wait til fall/winter and stop saying the same story every year come up with some new news for crying out loud.

Hell, I don't even have money to go to Goodwill and buy 45 cent vinyl records or clothes, let alone games.

I've actually gone back and started playing XBox1 games I never completed.

I seem to have to say this every month, but WE DON'T HAVE MONEY!!!  I have to scrape up pennies just for basic necessities.

The most recent game I got was Gotham City Impostors... cause it was FREE.

Newsflash: People Don't Have As Much Money As They Used To!

An honestly; with the excaption of 360 replacement rates how many gamers haven't bought in to this generation yet?

There's already over 80 Million 360's and 100 Million Wii's and 60 Million PS3's on the market. Not much room for improvement really.

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This generation is basically over. Sure the next GTA will push systems, but it's time for something that is newer than an iPhone.

IF things are really slow, and sales down year over year, OVER YEAR! Then why are we even talking about next gen, instead of price drops for games and consoles.  $39.99 - $49.99 for games sounds a lot better than $499.00+ for Next gen with $59.99 - 64.99 Games.  

And if people think that next gen will get people buying again couldn't they just buy a rig equal to next gen NOW and play games that look better on PC NOW?!  

Why buy an XBox or PS now when the next generation is about to come out?

NPD news sucks. They no longer give out all the details that we want to see. I can't understand why Gamespot continues to even post the information. We literally have to wait for Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony to share the numbers and many times they don't even bother. VGChartz is completely unreliable because they constantly change their numbers UP & DOWN after the NPD numbers are released. Their totals never match what Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft posts.

This isn't news. It's been a slow couple of months.

It's kinda dull to have the best selling games of a month and not have a number...

I can't believe that there weren't hardware price drops already this summer. I will be amazed if there isn't a drop by Christmas, though, to boost those sales. I also wish Sleeping Dogs would have done better, but I bet it did pretty well on PC via digital distribution. These lists are increasingly misleading with the high number of PC gamers that choose digital distribution. New consoles may give more meaning to these charts, though, if it brings people away from PCs (not me, though...)

It's a shame Sleeping Dogs isn't higher up, though considering it's a new IP it's done really well. Digital figures aren't counted and it has barely moved past the top 10 sellers on Steam. The game is the best sleeper hit in a while. At least Europe has it as the number one seller. Cheers! :)

Sales will pick up again in October (Xcom, Dishonored) if not later this month (Fifa13, Borderlands2).  Then you have the holiday season after that.  This is not really news considering everyone and their pets know that new hardware is around the corner.  I am sure iPhone4 sales take a big dip when iPhone5 gets announced too.  Go figure.

I agree that the lack of new titles plays a definitive factor in decline of sales. I have bought less games the past few months because of this reason. 

price cuts...

..59.99$ games, shovelware, no accountability, defective games with no return policy, forced into can't sue clause after purchases, 4 hour games....game companies canabalized themselves with greed.........

 This summer every website, including Gamespot, were rushing to be the first to post rumours about next-gen consoles, whether they were confirmed or not. I don't think it's any surprise at all that people are abstaining from console purchases now in anticipation that next-gen will be around the corner.

Well the answer is simple. MAKE BETTER DLCS!

omg who cares thats all i see now is game sales are droping well guess what gaming will never die its simple sales pick up every holiday and experts are always wrong when it comes to gaming and them saying ''its just a fad''

Well this is to be expect now isn't it?

The Xbox 360 is the BEST console EVER made. --John Carmack

a drop in hardware sales the summer before the next gens come out, shocking

Well, I think Apple should bring out some gaming hardware then sue Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo as they had the idea first but didn't tell anyone about it.

Not surprising with the slowdown of releases, nice weather, other stuff to do etc. Plus people looking to buy consoles for the holiday seasons will be waiting to see what package deals they can pick up.

It has certainly been a slow few months for major games releases. Thank goodness the Autumn line-up is looking pretty good! ( for me anyway :P )

Really? The longest console cycle in history, and they are talking about slow downs, and dips in Hardware sales? Are you serious?

I was ready for a new console last year.

This year for games has been rather lame. I've only bought two games this year that were new releases, "Darksiders 2, and Mass Effect 3."

I usually buy a new game once a month. I've been forced to replay through older games I bought years ago... which wasn't really a bad thing...

Playing through Devil May Cry 4 again was fun... so was Halo 3 o.d.s.t...

BUT still... this year has been pretty lame.

Can't wait for Assassins Creed 3, and Halo 4...