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US console charts: August 21-27

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Aug 29, 2006 1:05 pm PT

Madden NFL 07 takes top seven slots in last week's Best Buy charts; Dead Rising, Brain Age, New Super Mario Bros. round out list.

Apparently, the question, "Are you ready for some football?" is rhetorical when it comes to gamers. The answer, of course, is a resounding, "Yes," and evidence of that was shown in last week's Best Buy sales charts.

The top 10 best-selling games from last week looked eerily like a football score: Madden 7, others 3. The 07 edition of Electronic Arts' annual football game nabbed the top seven slots in its first week in release. The platforms represented were, from first to seventh, the PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2 (Hall of Fame Edition), Xbox 360 (Hall of Fame Edition), PlayStation Portable, and GameCube. The only console versions of Madden NFL 07 not to make the top 10 were the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions.

When gamers weren't tackling running backs last week, they were killing zombies. Capcom's Dead Rising landed in eighth place, down three spots from the previous week. But even hordes of undead and 350-pound linemen couldn't stop the DS duo of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day and New Super Mario Bros. The two titles remained on the top 10 list in ninth and 10th, respectively.

133 Comments

  • Xenctuary

    Posted Sep 7, 2006 8:06 am PT

    No one is buying Madden then, eh?

  • Outrank

    Posted Sep 5, 2006 10:19 am PT

    lol the number of hardcore losers who come out to bash madden is hilarious

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Sep 5, 2006 5:54 am PT

    uggg......EA.....and madden....

  • phSychO_AtDawn

    Posted Sep 4, 2006 9:50 pm PT

    Nintendo and PS2 ain't got nothin on the Xbox.

  • netlatnu

    Posted Sep 4, 2006 5:45 pm PT

    I don't know why everyone is so offended that Madden made it to the top of the list. Besides the fact that it's the only new major game released recently, it's a game that has a huge casual gamer following. Spend some time in any university dorm and I promise you there will be someone playing Madden. With the possible exception of Halo (or 2), no game comes close. You can complain about the casual gamer all you want, but without them, the video game industry will fail. Without these big hits, other great games that have limited appeal, will never be made.

    Also, stop with the America bashing. It's sad that someone can base an opinion on an entire country just because a football game happened to sell well. If you're going to hate us Americans, at least do it for a real reason.

  • smeagollovesyou

    Posted Sep 4, 2006 3:29 pm PT

    I get that Madden is a great football sim. But why would someone buy it more than once every 4 years?

  • whitey3221

    Posted Sep 4, 2006 11:02 am PT

    yeah shingo you would be right except that some guy with a beer can wouldn't know what brain age is...and he would be retarded to say that anyways because brain age and mario have been at the top of the list for pretty much 2 months except when a new game comes out, but they quickly return to the top.

  • redskins21

    Posted Sep 4, 2006 10:48 am PT

    for all u football haters why shouldn't we play football games or sports at that just because u can't play dosen't mean we can't so to all u haters just shut the **** up

  • Shingo

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 5:11 pm PT

    DAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Right now someone with a beer can is going "Take that Brain Age!"

  • Dantes_Monkey

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 2:51 pm PT

    madden lol.

  • Slaveways

    Posted Sep 3, 2006 11:00 am PT

    at least seeing madden on top is better then seeing nsmb on top for god knows how many weeks

  • dna33

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 12:36 pm PT

    and you guys said ukers had no taste

  • Xa31nov1s

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 12:02 pm PT

    Wow, the funny thing is out of everybody I know there was only one person I could recall that wanted this game. And it sold THIS much? Very odd...

  • junk56

    Posted Sep 2, 2006 5:52 am PT

    wow... lets hope stuff changes when the wii and PS3 come out

  • Lord_Regnier

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 9:28 am PT

    Xbox 360 isnt doing too bad.

  • westcoastxbox2

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 8:31 am PT

    football haters, madden haters, ea haters leave now.
    why is ea rich beacuse they make good games even if ithey could work on games more.

    why didnt 2k5 sell more then madden when it cost less. because they made a bad game.

    and football haters leave no one cares if you hate football and leave

  • awia

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 3:50 am PT

    i hate Football...and they say videogame addiction is bad, what about all the Football freaks?

  • WelshPrince

    Posted Sep 1, 2006 12:02 am PT

    What a joke.

  • deadmeat59

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 7:45 pm PT

    omg americans have bad tase in games no wonder why japanese dont like them i was blind and now i see

  • faridmon

    Posted Aug 31, 2006 10:05 am PT

    i was talking about how ashamed i was to live in UK, and after this i am happy to live in UK, but i miss Norway

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