Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 beat Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One in sales of consoles in U.S. stores in May, extending its lead for a fifth month. Overall consumer spending on video-game hardware and software jumped 52 percent to $586 million last month, compared with a year earlier, with the PS4 retaining its sales lead as the No. 1 platform, NPD Group Inc. said in an e-mailed statement today. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-16/sony-beats-microsoft-in-console-sales-for-fifth-month.html