U.S. video game sales down 17% in April

May 15, 2009 U.S. sales of video games fell 17% in April to $1.03 billion, research group NPD said on Thursday, the second steep monthly decline in a row. The big driver in games is content, so last year you had two of the biggest games of the year launch in April, and that was not the case this year," he said, referring to "Grand Theft Auto 4" and "Mario Kart. Nintendo's Wii was the top-selling game console again in April, although sales fell more than 50% from a year ago to 340,000 units, NPD said.

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