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Video Game Sales
Do you love to play video games? Have you ever played Minecraft? If you have, you are not alone. According to VGChartz.com, for the week of May 17, 2014, in the United States alone, video game lovers purchased 36,732 copies of Minecraft for the PS3 platform and 33,887 copies of Minecraft for the Xbox 360 platform. Let's face it: video games are fun, with today's technology delivering ever more realistic thrills and spills. And the video game industry continues to pump out new platforms, such as Xbox One, Wii U, and the PS4, that promise to offer superior performance. In this chapter, we will examine some data concerning video game sales in the United States for the week of May 17, 2014, provided by VGChartz.com (www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41777/USA/).
THE BIG PICTURE
Where we are coming from and where we are headed …