TheSource on 13 July 2012
| US HW | Jan-Jun |
| 2012 | 6.4m |
| 2011 | 9.4m |
| 2010 | 10.1m |
| 2009 | 11.6m |
| 2008 | 12.4m |
| 2007 | 10.5m |
| 2006 | 7.2m |
| 2005 | 7.8m |
| 2004 | 6.5m |
| 2003 | 7.0m |
| 2002 | 7.2m |
| 2001 | 5.1m |
US is definitely still driven by hardware sales. The PS2 era January - June peak was completely driven by PS2's best year. The one exception is 2005, which was driven by PSP, DS, and GBA all selling reasonably well in the first half of the year. Then in 2008, Wii and DS were doing enormous numbers. Now that we're in 2012, the hardware market is trending to be about 18-20m for the whole year instead of around 35m.
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