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  Microsoft Leads Nintendo, Sony Amid U.S. Game Slump
Time: 09:11 EST/14:11 GMT | News Source: Business Week Online | Posted By: Robert Stein

U.S. sales of video games fell 6 percent in June to $1.1 billion after the strong appeal of Nintendo Co., Sony Corp. and Microsoft Corp. consoles failed to offset weak game purchases. Microsoft’s Xbox 360 sales gained 88 percent to 451,700 units after it introduced a slimmer version of its console with a larger hard drive. It was the second-largest non-holiday month of sales for the Redmond, Washington-based company’s Xbox 360, behind the September 2007 release of the game Halo 3, research firm NPD Group said today in a statement.

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