US, January 28, 2008 - Consumers spent nearly ten billion dollars on videogame software last year, according to data from the NPD Group and the Entertainment Software Association. The bulk of that was on console games, which saw $6.6 billion in sales. Handheld software saw $2 billion, while PC games trailed with $0.9 billion.
This data represents U.S. software sales and does not include hardware numbers.
Game sales figures were up quite a lot at the end of last year with all the huge titles. All in all more games are being sold now than ever, i seem to be buying new ones all the time.