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NEW YORK — U.S. retail sales of video- game consoles and software dropped 4 percent in January, but the falloff would have been larger if not for the burgeoning popularity of Ubisoft’s “Just Dance 2” and other dancing games.
Market researcher NPD Group recently reported that total sales of game software, hardware and accessories, such as Microsoft Corp.’s Kinect motion-sensing controller, were $1.14 billion last month, down from $1.18 billion in January 2010. Hardware sales fell to $324 million from $353.7 million.
Software sales slipped 5 percent to $576 million, from $606.8 million. That’s a smaller drop than the 8 percent falloff in software sales that analysts had been expecting.
