Rockstar and Team Bondi’s crime drama sells less than a million across 360, PS3 as Take-Two shares slip 8 percent in past five days.

 

For the second year in a row, Take-Two subsidiary Rockstar Games , following up 2010′s Red Dead Redemption with L.A. Noire. However, even if it was the best-selling new release at US retail, the Team Bondi-developed L.A. Noire performed significantly worse than Rockstar San Diego’s open-world Western.

According to sales data obtained by , L.A. Noire sold 899,000 units across the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game. That figure comes in some 600,000 units below that of Red Dead Redemption, which received a marginally higher critical reception than L.A. Noire and .

L.A. Noire’s sales performance, combined with , has spooked Take-Two investors this week. Since Friday, the game company has seen its share value fall by nearly 8 percent to $14.49, though trading had largely stabilized today.

The performance of Team Bondi’s action-investigation title was indicative of greater weakness in the US retail game market. Total industry sales fell 14 percent year-over-year to $743.1 million. Software was particularly weak in May, with combined console, handheld, and PC game sales falling 21 percent year-over-year to $400.1 million.

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