Microsoft's Kinect sales are high but still unable to undo the decline in game sales this year

January 15, according to foreign media reports, although Microsoft in the first 60 days to sell 8 million Kinect accessories and more than the previous sales of Xbox 360 game consoles, but still can not restore the 2010 global game sales than the last year of contraction of the situation.　　Market research firm NPD today released the 2010 annual video game report, showing a total of 18.55 billion U.S. dollars in 2010 video games, compared to $19.66 billion in 2009 and $21.4 billion in 2008. The decrease was mainly due to a 13% reduction in game hardware sales and a 6% drop in video game software sales, NPD said.　　In addition, sales in other areas were flat or slightly lower, while sales of video-game accessories increased by 13% per cent over the previous year, to $853 million trillion in December alone. The 2010 video gaming industry's top player, Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming machine, has grown 42% from the previous year.　　Last December, the game was the highest sales month in five years, up to 1.9 million units. Xbox 360 Microsoft spokeswoman said the Xbox 360 gaming machine was out of stock because of last December's sales, a situation that would continue until February this year.　　Microsoft has combined retailers and manufacturers to speed up production and delivery speed to address this problem. The Microsoft Xbox 360 console, which was sold last December, was the Nintendo DS system that sold 8.5 million units in 2010.　　Game consoles, the Wii to 7 million sales to the top. The field of computer gaming rebounded slightly in 2010, increasing by 3% in mobile physical retail software. Consumer spending has increased in the use of games, game downloads and game copies, according to NPD. Blizzard's "World of Warcraft: Catastrophe" Extension was the best-selling PC software of December last year.　　In addition, the StarCraft 2: Freedom Wing's sales accounted for 14% of total PC game sales. In the Console game field, Activision Company launched the "Call of Duty: Black Action" Sales first, listed in the first two months of sales of more than 12 million. Followed by EA's "the hottest American football 11", the company's aura: Zhiyuan star and Nintendo's upgraded version of "Super Mario Bros." Wii. (Edit/Fire)