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Sales of video game hardware, software and accessories in the United States continued to slide in August according to new data from NPD Group, again dipp

Overall, according to new data from NPD Group, U.S. video game sales at retail fell 4% from a year ago. But the middling result masked the bigger trends. While hardware sales rose 12% from a year ago, and accessory sales improved 13%, software sales slumped 16%.

The steady crumbling of the U.S. retail video game sector continued in January.

Activision says 5.6 million copies of the highly-anticipated action game were sold. By comparison, last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 -- the previous "biggest entertainment launch in history" -- pulled in $310 million on launch day and sold 4.7 million copies.

In grim news for video game companies, market researcher NPD Group says U.S. retail sales of game hardware, software and accessories fell 8 percent in September to $1.2 billion.