The company's comparable store sales declined 2.3% year-over-year (y-o-y), resulting in a 6.3% y-o-y decline in the net earnings. The positive impact of strong new hardware sales was offset by a delay in the release of Assassin's Creed out of the third quarter into the fourth quarter. The decline in the sales of software titles for previous generation consoles, due to the shift of gamers to next generation consoles, was much more than the company's anticipation.