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NEW YORK Consumers may not be buying as many new consoles, but they sure are spending a lot of time playing the ones they have. This June marked the hottest on record in terms of minutes spent on game play, per the Nielsen Co.
Videogame console usage was up 21 percent in June compared to the year prior. The average gamer spent 12.8 hours playing games during the month.
Consumers have shifted to the new generation of consoles, spending the majority of their time on the Microsoft 360, Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation 3.
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