In the United States regularly falls to the popularity of Wii games console from Nintendo. October is already the eighth consecutive month (annualized), which sold less equipment - reported economic news agency Bloomberg, referring to the statistics analyst firm NPD Group.

Last month, descended from the shelves, including 506 900 Wii - is about 37 percent less than in October 2008. Did not help even the fact that the Japanese manufacturer lowered the price of machines from 250 to 200 dollars.
Meanwhile, PlayStation 3, Sony has sold in the U.S. in the number of 320 600 copies - compared with October last year, an increase of 70 percent. By contrast, Microsoft's Xbox 360 shared the fate of the Wii. Sold only 250 000 units, 33 percent less than last year. Despite the decline in the popularity of the Wii is still sold most of the American game console.

From the beginning of the crisis in the console market continues to shrink. In October, the turnover in this segment amounted to 1.07 billion dollars - about 19 percent less than in the corresponding period of 2008 and 16.4 percent less than in September this year.