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December games sales not as bad as expected
Following last Friday's release of its report for all of 2005, industry-research group NPD has released a more detailed study of the final month of last year. According to the group, game software sales in December 2005 saw a 4 percent year-on-year decline. Games for all current-generation consoles were down, with PlayStation 2 games down 11 percent, GameCube titles off 17 percent, and Xbox titles sinking a whopping 33 percent.

The single-biggest reason for the falloff of Xbox game sales was the introduction of the Xbox 360. Having already sold more than 326,000 units by the end of November, the hard-to-find next-gen console saw another 281,000 ship during December, bringing the total to around 607,000. By contrast, hardware sales of the original Xbox plummeted 60 percent, far ahead--or below, depending how you look at it--of the GameCube's 26 percent slump. But while its current-gen rivals floundered, the PlayStation 2 saw a massive increase in sales, up 48 percent compared to December 2004.

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