PS4's The Last of Us: July's best-seller, July's biggest disappointment

Gaming and I have a lot in common. We both lose a lot of money because of college football.

EA Sports didn’t release a new NCAA Football game in July, and while that hurt sales, it was anticipated. What analysts weren’t expecting was for PlayStation 4’s The Last of Us to come up short. New game sales at U.S. retail were down 15 percent year-over-year, according to industry tracking firm The NPD Group. That is worse than the down 11 percent that Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz was predicting, and he lays the blame at Sony’s headline July release.