{
  "id": 2147778,
  "title": "Circana: US video game hardware spending fell 29% YoY in July to $282M, the lowest since COVID; unit shipments fell 39% as average console prices hit $542 (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/circana-us-video-game-hardware-spending-fell-29-yoy-in-july-to-282m",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-20T13:25:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/switch-2-leads-us-console-sales-slump-in-worst-july-since-covid"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nintendo Co.'s Switch 2 sales in the US this July were less than half what they were the same month a year ago, leading an industrywide hardware decline, according to Circana.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}