Sales Breakdown for '06

[Erratic]

There's an interesting articleover at Next-Gen covering the sales rankings for the top 100 games in North America. Everyone loves lists but this was actually kind of surprising (at least to me). Most notable was Prey's position on the list. Even more interesting was some of the top sellers. I knew movie tie in games did well but I didn't think it was on this scale. There's a few other games I wouldn't expect to see on the list, like Black, which I assumed had just slipped under everyones radar.

Not sure how often information is openly available like this, I see the odd NDP sales breakdown on news sites but this one gives a good sense of what a year for the industry is like, at least to those of us in the dark

If you're too lazy to read the article here's the direct link for Top 100 List.

[skdr]

Where's HL2 EP1? I remember they announced that it sold very well.

[Spellbinder]

Cool list. I just gave it a quick eye couse im at work. Ill look clooser when i get home. Allthough i have one thing against this. Its only North America, i have followed the Swedish lists but what i really want is a world list. That would be neat. Thx for the link!

[Furyo]

This list confirms that it's not because you have a very low rating that your game won't sell....but it sure helps to have a good one....

[FrieChamp]

6. Gears of War

Xbox 360 Exclusive

1.8 million

Didn't they just announce that it sold like 3 million copies or from when are these numbers?

[Zacker]

All the numbers are from north america only which kinda screws everything a lot.

[Mazy]

Because they're from 2006 plus its only in North America

650k for Blood Money, not too bad I guess. Was the best selling game in the UK for a couple of weeks after its release, so I guess it overall sold quite well. Last number I heard was 1.6m and that was quite a while ago.

[Thrik]

I'm thinking these figures are just as inaccurate as usual sales reports, which are largely pretty inaccurate as they only factor in sales during a certain (launch) period, ignore certain distribution methods, regions, or completely discount certain publishers as they don't release their sales data (I believe at least Valve falls into this category).

Still, they give a good general idea of how well a game is doing in the general sense. Just don't rely on these numbers for any kind of solid evidence of a game selling better than another.

[Chunks]

Where's HL2 EP1? I remember they announced that it sold very well.

Valve is a privately held company I believe, so they aren't obligated to reveal stuff like that. Plus these are probably all sales from retail and do not contain any copies sold from digital distribution.

[Furyo]

There's also a big difference between sell-in and sell-out figures. Sell-in are the number of copies ordered by retailers, and sell-out are the actual customer sales. Many companies announce sell-in figures to boost themselves up, but in reality they may be sent back half the retailers stock

[Minos]

Congrats evert, phill and everyone at grin GRAW is one of the top selling games. (but they are counting both pc and xbox versions together, aren't they completely different games ?)

[kleinluka]

6. Gears of War

Xbox 360 Exclusive

1.8 million

Didn't they just announce that it sold like 3 million copies or from when are these numbers?

This list only lists the sales figures from 2006. So anything after 2006 is not taken into account there...

[Fletch]

Top PS3 game: Resistence - #80

Top Wii game: Zelda - #11

Suck. It. Sony.

[FrieChamp]

6. Gears of War

Xbox 360 Exclusive

1.8 million

Didn't they just announce that it sold like 3 million copies or from when are these numbers?

This list only lists the sales figures from 2006. So anything after 2006 is not taken into account there...

I think that the sales only include North America is the big factor here, but anyway - thanks everyone for the heads up!

[Bl1tz]

Where's HL2 EP1? I remember they announced that it sold very well.

At the beginning of the article, it says they're not considering expansion packs and other non "full price" titles. The Burger King games would definitely be on there but they're not for the same reason.