The top ten best-selling video games of 2006 (as reported by NextGen):
10. Need For Speed Carbon
9. Fight Night Round 3
8. Call Of Duty 3
7. Kingdom Hearts II
6. Gears Of War
5. New Super Mario Bros.
4. NCAA Football 07
3. Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
2. Cars
1. Madden NFL 07
Cars was the 2nd best selling game in North America of 2006. Seriously. I was surprised too. But Madden is no surprise, selling two-and-a-half times more copies than Cars. I don’t understand the drive to play the same game over and over again every year. I know someone who didn’t get a new system last time around until they stopped making Madden on the N64, at which point he bought a GameCube (as it was the cheapest). He will probably buy his next system when they stop making Madden for the Cube. That makes no sense to me. I’m also kind of surprised to see Gears Of War in the top ten, not that I’m implying it is a bad game, I just didn’t realize there were enough 360’s for it to be a top-ten game. The full article is interesting but kind of long (16 pages long), so if you’re bored you should check it out.
On a side note, why do online news article insist on using “pages” anyway? Nine out of ten dentists agree that webpages can now scroll vertically without negatively affecting their usability.