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<blockquote data-quote="The Feedster" data-source="post: 534091" data-attributes="member: 259515"><p><img src="http://mos.techradar.com//classifications/home-entertainment/gaming/games-consoles/images/ps3-angled-shadow-200-200.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Sony and Konami will be pleased with today's news that U.S. sales of game hardware and software rose 53 percent in June, compared with the same month in 2007.</p><p></p><p>Konami's magnum opus, Metal Gear Solid 4 has clearly boosted the sale of PlayStation 3 units as evidenced by the latest NPD sales data.</p><p></p><p>Metal Gear Solid 4 was easily June's best-selling game, knocking Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4 off its perch, and causing a massive 94 percent sales boost of PS3 hardware, compared with the previous month, with US consumers buying up 405,500 PS3s in June, compared with 208,700 consoles in May.</p><p></p><p><strong>PS3 exclusives work</strong></p><p></p><p>"Exclusive content usually fuels hardware system purchases and PS3 sales certainly reflect the impact of Metal Gear Solid 4," notes NPD analyst Anita Frazer.</p><p></p><p>Nintendo is still ahead of the hardware gang in the US, having sold a more-than-respectable 660,000 Wii consoles in June, finally nudging ahead of the Xbox 360 as the current best-selling console in the U.S., with a current installed base of 10.9 million Wiis in the country.</p><p></p><p>In the first six months of 2008 the U.S. video game industry has already generated a whopping $8.3 billion in sales, which equates to a 36 percent increase in sales compared with the same period last year.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/1799409/mf.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=http://www.techradar.com/426612&link=Metal Gear 4 boosts PS3 sales" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=http://www.techradar.com/426612&link=Metal Gear 4 boosts PS3 sales" target="_blank"><img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13833243206/f/8513/c/669/s/24744969/a2.htm" target="_blank"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/13833243206/f/8513/c/669/s/24744969/a2.img" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/669/f/8513/s/1799409/story01.htm" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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