Video games aren't doing all that well in America today. Market research firms that track these kinds of things find that sales of game consoles have been falling by a couple of percentage points each month for some time now. As far as game titles are concerned, the fall has been far more precipitous - 15% month on month. When there's a new piece of coveted hardware like the Nintendo 3DS or the Kinect, sales do head up a bit; but that happens to just a blip on the radar. Overall, the trend in video game sales is clear - it's going downhill. Now what could be causing this? That's the question everyone wants an answer to.