October 2013 NPD: Pokémon powers 3DS to sixth straight month at top

The video game industry had another positive gain at retail in the last month of tracking before Sony and Microsoft launch their next-gen consoles. Once again, Grand Theft Auto led the charge, but it got some help from Pokémon, Batman, Battlefield, and Assassin’s Creed.

The industry managed to rack up $791.1 million in total sales for new hardware and software at retail in October, according to data-tracking firm The NPD Group’s latest report. That’s up 5 percent from 2012, when the industry generated $755.7 million in revenue. That doesn’t match the monster $1.08 billion September total, but analysts didn’t expect that.