January 2016 NPD: Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto top sales chart with few new releases

Gamers didn’t have a lot of new releases to pick up from retailers last month, and that dragged the industry down a little bit.

Consumers spent $605.2 million on new gaming products at United States retailers in January, according to industry-intelligence firm The NPD Group. That is down 4 percent from $627.6 million last year during the same period. Hardware and software sales were down. While, once again, the plummeting sales of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are the biggest culprits, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One purchases also saw some regression.