U.S. sales of video game hardware and software were $1.12 billion in May, up 37 percent from a year earlier, with Take-Two Interactive Software's "Grand Theft Audio 4" the best-selling title for the month, market researcher NPD said in a report on Thursday.GTA 4 is already the top-selling game title so far this year following its April launch, racking up sales of 4.2 million units. Sales of the game for both the Xbox 360 and Sony Corp's PlayStation 3 consoles totaled 1.31 million units in May.
During the month, Nintendo sold 675,000 Wiis, Sony sold 209,000 PlayStation 3 machines and Microsoft sold 187,000 Xbox 360 consoles.
Both Microsoft and Sony have said sales of GTA 4 would likely translate into a surge of consoles sales but the numbers for May didn't bear out that notion.
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