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U.S. digital game revenue drops 1% from last year to $841M in June

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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U.S. digital game sales grew to $841 million in June, up 4 percent compared to May but down 1 percent from a year ago, according to market researcher SuperData Research.

The data measures the full range of the game market, including boxed PC and console games, free-to-play games, and paid digital games. Sales slipped in June largely because of the weak boxed software market for PC and console games. That market was down 16.7 percent.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.