This press release from the Entertainment Software Association announces that sales of computer and video game software in the US reached a new record of $7.3 billion in 2004, according to data from the NPD Group. $5.2 billion from that number came from console game sales (compared to $4.9 billion in 2003), while $1.1 billion came from computer game sales (down from $1.2 billion in 2003) and $1 billion came from portable console game sales (up from $903 million in 2003). Twelve video games sold over 1 million units in 2004, while only two computer games sold over 500,000 units.