July game sales the lowest in years

they still make millionth..

During July, i think I was still playing Diablo 3. Lol.

Point is, Replay value is a factor when it comes to game purchases. When it came to Fighting games, Super Smash Bros Brawl was so entertaining that I didn't buy another fighting game until three years later.

These things don't include digital sales. And never include Steam.... And ARMAII as been in the top 3 on Steam for a few months now. and no where on that list....

Bottom line, 60.00 plus tax is too damn much for a game!!! I hope new game sales tank until the greedy corporations come to their senses and drop new games below the 50.00 mark.

WE ARE IN A RECESSION.  DUR THE GAME SALES ARE BAD.

Im a sports gamer most of the time and I like RPG's and fighting Games. Usually they Save the Big hitters for the fall so until they change that around, the sales will only continue to fall

Been an overall slow year from what I have noticed. Hopefully next year with the release of a new console sales will pick up around the board for everyone.

not lot alot of good game ive been mostly playing blacklight and LoL

That's what they get for only putting out Triple A titles in November.  Show the other months some love and you'll get some love back.

well if there is nothing released then there is nothing for people to buy

.....Guild Wars2.........it comes out in august....that's my excuse.

2012 games that i remember that have come out....Max Payne 3...thats the only game i remember for some reason didnt even play/buy it. Guess its because ive been playing 2011, 2010 games, or maybe CAUSE THERE HASNT BEEN ANYTHING GOOD!!!!!!!!

I'd buy a game, if there was anything worth buying.

I just wish that GameSpot uses NPD, as I did not know what kind of game sales information is in this article.

Spelunky was the best game to come out this month. Everything else sucked.

Didn't buy, in fact didn't even consider buying any games in July. A poor month, the magazines were rubbish as well.

I don't think I bought new games in July. What the hell was released in July?

Its been a rough year for me personally. I have to cut back on my gaming funds because of the economy. I wish I could support all these companies, but my responsibilities lie with taking care of my family first. At most I can buy 1 game every 2 to 3 months.

Its not that these games are bad, quite the opposite! But my generation of gamers simply can't afford to invest in a new game every two weeks.

The july/summer fits perfect for GOTY's or such.Noir with all DLC's,Fable 3 with all DLC's,Reach with all DLC's to name few ...and add all possible games i forgot of your favorite game system here too.

that sucks....i hope these publishers and devs are getting the point about the industry

the only thing worth getting that was released in july was orcs must die 2

I spent July catchig up on stuff that I hadn't played yet and picking up some niche titles and sale deals. I ordered some great stuff on sale from Amazon like Akai Katana as well as picked up some cheap stuff at Best Buy, including Xbox 360 Just Dance 3 for $10, XBOX 360 Assassin's Creed Revelations for $10, and 3DS Pilotwings Resort for $5. Otherwise, I purchased a couple of newer low-production-run PSP games like Kenka Bancho, Gungnir and Growlanser. July was a much higher than normal video game purchasing month for me!

I wonder at what magnitude digital sales are affecting retail sales? I wish NPD would give us a breakout.

Not surprising since there was f*** all to buy apart from FPS and RPG games.

WOW!  This is soooo surprising.  NOT!

Again, why are you guys reporting this without referring to the fact that NPD doesn't track digital sales??  In fact you even go as far as to say  "the game industry", when really, NPD strictly tracks physical sales, which we ALL know are in decline (against sharply rising digital sales). 

everybody is waiting for august :D

"While there wasn't much to crow about, Microsoft did . . . " now that was funny

Dead Island???

19-0

Might have something to do with nothing worth getting last month. Most of those games came out last year, and half of that is likely the Steam summer sale.

thats the top 10 and game sales are low? HOLY FUCK!

Really wish NPD would stop being lazy and post the numbers each of the top 10 games and all the consoles sold. It cant be that hard to regurgitate the numbers they use to make stuff like this in the first place.

Sort of wonder why the summer gaming drought still happens each year. Publishers should realize that people play games throughout the year, sometimes even more during the summer since that's when most students are out of school. Maybe they're all still afraid of Madden or something?

None of this is really that surprising.  

Consoles in general have really taken off since their release 6 or 7 years ago (which explains why July 2006 was a slow year, current gen consoles were just getting started).  And now, nearing the end of the console life-cycle, it'd be really odd to see sales anywhere close to what they have been.  With just over a year away from the next gen, I don't expect everyone to go out and spend much on new games/consoles today.

Any analyst with half a brain could predict low sales at this late in the current console generation and could also predict the next 12 months of sales.  Hint: They are going to continue to decline.

Let's revisit this topic after E3 2013 and the months leading up to the end of 2013 (holiday season).  You'll see a sharp drop in sales after E3 (presumably the announcement of next gen consoles) and then a HUGE spike in console sales when they release (holiday season at the end of 2013), followed by a slight lull while we wait for the AAA titles to catch-up/release on the next gen. I'd say about mid to late 2014 is when the overall console and game sales will start their gradual rise to record sales numbers again.

Yes, you can quote me on that.

Maybe thats because they all frickin suck, lol.

Who the hells in charge anyway.

Nothing came out last month. What was there? 5 games for the 360 total?

Surprised to see Dead Island make a top 10 nearly a year later.

How is it still surprising to these industry people that no big game releases yield low sales?  That's like being surprised that your car ran out of gas because you never fill it up. 

What I don't understand is why no big games ever come out in summer.  Movies do great in summer because grade and secondary schools are out.  I'd bet if big titles got released during summer, they'd sell.

wow ms boosting about its sales, to bad world wide ps3 is outselling it as is 3ds lol and wii not to far behind lol and wii still leads overall by a hefty margin lol