Bestbuy.com best sellers: September 24-30

Madden continues to tackle the console charts as NBA Live 07, NBA 2K7 double-team a pair of DS newcomers.

Madden mania continued to sweep the nation during the week of September 24 to 30, according to the latest sales rankings from Best Buy's Web site. The PlayStation 2 edition of the game was once again the top dog, with the Xbox 360 version tackling fifth and the Xbox version landing in ninth.

However, strong sales of the next-gen Madden might be affected by EA's announcement this week that it will be releasing additional content on Xbox Live Marketplace. Some have hailed it as a savvy business move, while others have accused EA of trying to nickel and dime consumers by selling them features that should've been in the $60 game in the first place.

The week also saw a different sport finish strong--a sport that no single publisher has a monopoly on. Electronic Arts' NBA Live 07 debuted solidly in second (PS2) and fourth (Xbox 360) places, while rival NBA 2K7 from 2K Sports wound up in third (Xbox 360) and seventh (PS2). Sony's first-party basketball game, NBA 07, fared far worse, spending its first week in stores all the way down in 59th place.

Don't like sports? Well, three non-athletic titles made the top 10 during the week, and all of them were for Nintendo's ever-popular portable, the Nintendo DS. Enduring favorite New Super Mario Bros. remained on the chart at number six, followed by newcomers Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (eighth) and Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (10th).

108 Comments

  • Thorpe89 Site moderator

    Posted Oct 18, 2006 7:17 am PT

    Yes, a whole lot of sports games right there.

  • TekkenMaster606

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 1:43 pm PT

    Live is great. Nothing against 2K Sports but EA is elite, NHL 07 rocks too. I wonder what's up with PSP game sales. Not looking too good.

  • _Sam_

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 5:32 pm PT

    lot of sports games!

  • ludadav

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 10:54 am PT

    Always nice to see

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 6:19 am PT

    another year, another madden............

  • bloody1f4knight

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 4:29 pm PT

    Nice!! I have that game!

  • icyballa24

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 10:18 am PT

    idiots buying live over 2k7...

  • SavoyPrime

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 7:52 am PT

    Man, I wish Live could go back to the status it had back in the Genesis days. *sigh*

  • Manatassi

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:07 pm PT

    awwww Only caught a couple of comments with that, oh well somthing to do if youre bored... oh and Jancotlano. Seriously Basket ball is pretty much evolved from Netball (a girls game) but then netball was evolved from other games as all spots are. Whats interesting is that Basket ball is Semi popular as a neiche sport in the rest of the world whereas American Football is unplayed anywhere else in the world other than Canada and Japan pretty much. But the real comedy comes in with the "World" seires, sporting support from a total of 1 Countries. Anyway have fun with your ever so inventive and remarkably unpopular sports there old boy

  • LosDaddie

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 1:29 pm PT

    Yet another great showing for tthe Xbox360!

  • snarple_basic

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 1:22 pm PT

    Zoidberg54, BURN OUT is not like madden! Burnout compared to other race car games has changes the rules in its games alot more then any other race game. Look at gt3 & 4 not much changed there. Burnout 1 & 2 was more racing, 3 had added take downs, 4 added ramming same way traffic out of your way, all of which make the games feel very different.

    For Madden all they do is update the roster do some photoshop work on the box art and charge you 40-60 bucks for a "New" game lol.

  • rl_41

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 1:20 pm PT

    Yes madden! yes nba 2k7!

  • terrabreak13

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:19 am PT

    jancotianno

    Any sport where the ref has to stop and explain what just happened is retarded. Madden is just a name and from what I'm hearing people preferred NFL 2K.

  • Heavenly_King

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:17 am PT

    The PS2 is on the TOP HAHAHAHAHA !!!

    I WANT MY PS3 NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • lilpjayz

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:07 am PT

    NBA 2k7 is better than any game EA ever released

  • piecake

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:48 am PT

    yay 360

  • polopili_basic

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:18 am PT

    Sorry jancotiano, but Basketball was invented by a physician in the Mcgill university, in Quebec, Canada. Americans didn't invent it. Same thing for Hockey, it comes from an amerindian sports game called lacrosse. As for football, they just changed the rules a bit, but the sports comes from many places in Greece and China. You fail. As for most sports game, just buy last year's edition for half of the price, and have the same fun. Who cares about the few change in the teams? It's not like they improved gameplay much.

  • casinater

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:12 am PT

    whats with all the sports games?

  • Going666

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:02 am PT

    "get off the sofa and play sports at the park ... it's much more fun. these sports video games are all slow and boring."

    Wow, your lucky. No matter how hard i try, i find it very difficult to find 40 friends, thousands of dollars of equipment, and a football field to go out and play a game of football. Not to mention when its the middle of winter and theres 5 feet of snow on the ground.

    But hey, i guess for people like you this isn't a problem, but i would assume that for many, this will usually be impossible.

  • jancotianno

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 9:57 am PT

    terrabreak
    I would like to see you try to "mob" me. Madden is awesome. You are retarded!

    Mantassi
    You are so dumb. American football is so much more fun to watch than rugby. And netball? Americans invented basketball. End of story. Sorry we are so imaginative and beat the rest of the world at inventing sports, but we are the best.

  • terrabreak13

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:58 am PT

    The last game I enjoyed from EA was NBA Street Vol. 2 on GCN. It was a good game but all these other games they are putting out are just mediocore at best. I need to camp Best Buy and mob retards who buy Madden.

  • QualityJeverage

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:55 am PT

    "Hehehe. Look at all these mad people. I love it. They get all upset that some game is selling more than another."

    We're just frustrated that truly innovative and original games get stamped into the ground by the marketing machine of EA. If developers were people, and the game industry was one big room, then EA would be right up in your face with a megaphone, while the really great developers would be in a corner trying to yell over the noise.

  • mattcrwi

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:53 am PT

    It would be a lot easier to stop buying EA if they didn't have sole rights to NFL, AFL and I think one other. The Madden game's best years are when it had competition form the 2K franchise. Even if you hated the 2K franchise you have to admit it kept EA honest with their sequals.

  • Zoidberg54

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:47 am PT

    You know, I'm all for this "STOP BUYING EA GAMES, YO!" stuff. But damned if I'm gonna give up Burnout. I know how these guys feel about buying madden every year, burnout is no different. They make minor changes from game to game and call it a sequel, but I can't stop buying them.

  • sasuke55

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:24 am PT

    Its amazing how long New Super Mario Bros stays up there. I haven't even got it yet and I want it so imagine how many people want to get it but haven't. I think we will see it up there until November cause then you will have PS3 WIi, GOW, FEAR, so I think it will drop off then but it may comeback depending on the titles each system releases.

  • peeweeshift

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:17 am PT

    new super mario bros=amazing stuff

  • djord02

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:17 am PT

    The average gamer doesn't seem to care how much EA has gone downhill in releasing lazy updates to successful sports franchises, while taking out all of the features and serving them without any polish whatsoever.

  • Toadstool1969

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 7:10 am PT

    Manatassi said: "WTF is with those "sports" games? I mean seriously its bad enough that they have renamed Rugby and Netball and made them girlier (if thats posible) but now theyre domminating the games charts. I mean if youre going to screw up perfectly good sports and pretend you invented them you could atleast ACTUALY play them *sheesh*

    You think Rugby is the first game to use a ball (or equivelant object) and run with it? Neither American Footbal or Rugby was the first by a long shot. Let's not get our panties in a bunch, eh Manatassi?

  • boyblob

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 6:41 am PT

    Hehehe. Look at all these mad people. I love it. They get all upset that some game is selling more than another.

  • Dualmask

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 5:58 am PT

    I personally don't get how sports games sell so well. I mean, I follow some sports but I never felt the need to buy a game to simulate the sport...I guess because I don't like realistic games. If I wanted realism I'd go outside. But, great for EA, I guess. Soon this madness will die down and real creativity will regain the sales charts, hopefully.

  • ryokinshin6x3

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 5:29 am PT

    the average consumer gamer wich is the majority, likes them so they are always gonna top charts when released

  • Manatassi

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 4:11 am PT

    can anyone say Sport?


    WTF is with those "sports" games? I mean seriously its bad enough that they have renamed Rugby and Netball and made them girlier (if thats posible) but now theyre domminating the games charts. I mean if youre going to screw up perfectly good sports and pretend you invented them you could atleast ACTUALY play them *sheesh*

  • MSG-Deathscythe

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 12:51 am PT

    get off the sofa and play sports at the park ... it's much more fun. these sports video games are all slow and boring.

  • Supreme_Fantasy

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 12:18 am PT

    Wheee!! I want to play NBA 2K7!!!!

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 12:11 am PT

    very interesting...i think

  • xophaser

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 11:55 pm PT

    I also buy one sport game per console too, since they are very similar from year to year. The Seahawks (they are from Seattle if you don't follow any sports) are my team and they should be awesome in Madden 07, I will wait for the PS3 version. This post is starting to sound like nerds vs. jocks or FPS fanboy vs. the guy that picked on them at school. This is call demographic to game makers and it also sell consoles in the US.

    What? USC, my school is on the other one! I might have to get the college version too..... not really.

  • revamparts

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 11:53 pm PT

    pencilpusher69
    The sports games get the "free ride" mentioned, because the sports game fans have very low expectations when it comes to gaming. Give them stats, give them fantasy leagues, and they'll love it. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

    Funny how I could say the same thing about any genre or fan base. These games sell for a reason, and the people who play them are no more idiotic than you. God forbid anyone should play sports as a child, or better yet in this case, a sports VIDEO GAME.

  • ArchAngel2284

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 10:34 pm PT

    no Rocket Slime? aww =/

  • SuperSayinSean2

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 10:01 pm PT

    god, i wish i wasnt an american right now, they are so f@!!$$%ing stupid
    im so glad im a pirate

  • mattshellder

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 9:38 pm PT

    wow north america has a sad set of gamers. I buy one sports game per system, thats enough for me. Obviously i'm not the norm though

  • pencilpusher69

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 9:31 pm PT

    The sports games get the "free ride" mentioned, because the sports game fans have very low expectations when it comes to gaming. Give them stats, give them fantasy leagues, and they'll love it. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over...

  • gertish

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 9:23 pm PT

    "Double team" ROFL.

  • casmar82

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 9:14 pm PT

    Weak!!

  • Reetesh

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 9:08 pm PT

    All sports games

  • EPaul

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 8:44 pm PT

    Typical

  • ValkyrieJ

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 8:29 pm PT

    Why does a game like Rule of Rose get blasted for old controls, being too similar to silent hill, etc..............when these sports games are always the same? It seems like they get a free ride every year. And why doesn't EA just allow people to download a roster update every year for like $8 instead of getting a new game? Oh yeah, because then they'd actually have to make the game different and BETTER enough to warrant a yearly purchase. I guess we have marketplace competition to help take care of that though...........whoops, guess not.

  • Mkeegs79

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 8:16 pm PT

    Does this chart even matter? Its "only" Best Buy's top ten best sellers.

  • jacques117

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 8:09 pm PT

    another bunch of crappy games that people are conned into buying

  • thug_angel123

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 8:00 pm PT

    the only thing i could see on that chart is football expect for 2 or 3 games..

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