even though we hid the list of may's top software sellers in north america after the break, we have a suspicion that your unparalleled acumen and unmatched perception will provide the clues necessary to determine what the month's top seller was. simple. let's move onto harder stuff.

without a solid historical basis, determining the month's top-selling console might be difficult. so we'll give you a hint: it's been the top selling console for 11 of the past 12 months. that's right, it's the xbox 360 which managed to move 270,000 units according to microsoft, representing 39% year-over-year growth and marking the ''''''seventeenth month of year-over-year hardware sales increases,'''''' according to a now routine email boast from redmond.

overall video game spending is down 13% year-over-year, dropping from $829.4m to $718.8m; while hardware is only down 5%, video game software was down a whopping 19% from may 2010 to 2011. looking at the list of top sellers, you'll see a few notable facts: the poorly received brink managed to arrive in second place; there are two lego games from two separate publishers; and perhaps most notably, there isn't a single nintendo-published title on the list. find the full software rundown after the break.continue reading may npd: la noire makes the case, xbox 360 stays on top

may npd: la noire makes the case, xbox 360 stays on top originally appeared on joystiq on mon, 13 jun 2011 18:54:00 est. please see our terms for use of feeds.




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