US console sales chart: July 16-22

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Jul 24, 2006 6:04 pm PT

Gamers are ready for football as NCAA 07 takes three of top four; Cars motors trifecta into top 10.

While other publishers turn and hide from the summer season, Electronic Arts welcomes the sweltering sun with open arms. That's because two of the publisher's biggest releases hit during the heat. NCAA Football and Madden NFL make their yearly debuts in July and August, respectively, tackling both the competition and sales charts.

This week was the first time on the board for NCAA Football 07, which was released on the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable on July 18. The PlayStation 2 version of the game debuted at number one on Best Buy's top 10 console charts this week, while the Xbox 360, Xbox, and PSP versions landed in second, fourth, and ninth, respectively.

Last week's number-one game, New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS, was punted into third, while its cohort and last week's second place finisher, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day, fell to number seven.

The power of Pixar was evident, as three THQ games based on the film Cars sped into the top 10. The PS2 version took pole position among its siblings, landing in fifth. The Game Boy Advance version parked in sixth, and the GameCube edition skidded into 10th.

Rounding out the top 10 was Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for the PS2.

87 Comments

  • capthunt

    Posted Aug 9, 2006 10:55 am PT

    Pff Consoles

  • Sam_Lowery

    Posted Aug 7, 2006 4:19 pm PT

    4 NCAA's and 3 Car's ?!?
    What's the world comming to?
    It would be nice if they tracked the total money made to date like they do for movies.

  • fjgamer

    Posted Aug 6, 2006 10:35 pm PT

    Every console is up there. Yay.

  • megazone23

    Posted Jul 31, 2006 5:35 pm PT

    360, PS3 or a power console didn't make better games, not until there is a game must need such power to play well.

    It makes game look prettier which most people don't have a TV to take the advantage yet anyway. (On the contrary, it increase budget spent on graphics and less spent on gameplay)

    What 360 shines so far is the Live multiplayer service.

  • blankerton

    Posted Jul 31, 2006 3:50 am PT

    Okay, For people who call themselves gamers.. and asuming anyone who is talking about why the 360 doesnt have a #1 game right now has half a brain... think about how long the 360 has been out? and how long ps2 has had to sell systems.. and the price drops since the ps2 was out... okay.. so im guess the number of ps2 owners towers the 360 owners because of the above reason.. More people have the system....more people buy the game for that system...thats why the 360 does not have more..its pretty damn simple...

  • thebill1979

    Posted Jul 30, 2006 9:11 am PT

    Apparently, a whole lot of people like Cars. Or, a whole lot of kids are playing video games.

  • acegamer1

    Posted Jul 29, 2006 1:41 pm PT

    Football = America, understandable, but Cars? Come on!

  • jdknight21

    Posted Jul 28, 2006 2:41 pm PT

    I love how everyone knocks on the 360 cause multi-platform games sell more on the PS2. Then the superfans say 'just wait until PS3 comes out'. Newsflash: The same thing is going to happen to the PS3.

  • HyperMetaDragon

    Posted Jul 28, 2006 1:18 pm PT

    Get Cars off the damn thing, nobody likes Cars.

  • godovivel

    Posted Jul 28, 2006 10:26 am PT

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  • fordies

    Posted Jul 28, 2006 7:27 am PT

    rofl the ameicans said the uk chart is bad because cars is on it but cars take up 3 spots on yours.

  • 20Minutes

    Posted Jul 27, 2006 4:44 pm PT

    most hardcore gamers don't understand why madden and nba live and EA sports are so popular. those are the games casual gamers, some hardcore gamers (who have friends) and general sports fans play. even athletes. they're popular and fun as hell.

    most people with not that many friends or quote unquote "nerds" don't care for sports let alone sports games but i know that NBA Live and Madden were two of the first games i reserved for my PS3. i can't wait. i generally don't pick up the college ones since (game-wise) they're just stripped down prototypes of the pro games EA uses to test how some of their new content works.

  • Ponsardin

    Posted Jul 27, 2006 2:15 am PT

    Many said, after viewing those Japan game charts, the Japanese people have kinda odd gaming tastes. Anyway, their tastes are better than this. This is why people like EA (who want more and more money) produce their games for multiple platforms at the same time - because more platforms means instantly more money. And if it's an exclusive title, you have to make it a good game, otherwise the developers are ruined.

  • Agreb91

    Posted Jul 26, 2006 4:49 pm PT

    Whoa! Did I see a GameCube and GBA title in the top ten charts? Wow, that is a surprise.

  • b214

    Posted Jul 26, 2006 2:37 pm PT

    they talk like it's bad that mario and brain age dropped to 3rd and 7th. That's really good by my standards since they've been high in the charts since they came out many months ago.

  • Havoc19

    Posted Jul 26, 2006 6:25 am PT

    xbox 360 has to pick up the pace, 1 game in the top ten in Europe and the US and its not in 1st place in any of them, at this rate M$ will lose the lead in the industry to Ps3 or Wii... There are no good games out for the 360 I have it and still only have PGR3 my favorite game for it is UNO, this can't be a good sign... can't wait for the holidays..
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    ^^^ i agree, MS needs to step their game up, even with gears of war being released later this year for the 360, it only declines the potential growth of 360's market, i mean how many shooters can a home console have?
    360 urgently needs genre diversity in its catalogue, shooters/FPS/Driving games DONOT SELL CONSOLES!!!!

  • minos30

    Posted Jul 25, 2006 2:33 pm PT

    xbox 360 has to pick up the pace, 1 game in the top ten in Europe and the US and its not in 1st place in any of them, at this rate M$ will lose the lead in the industry to Ps3 or Wii... There are no good games out for the 360 I have it and still only have PGR3 my favorite game for it is UNO, this can't be a good sign... can't wait for the holidays..

  • DS_fan_atic

    Posted Jul 25, 2006 1:54 pm PT

    man...I wish summer provided us with some quality games

  • Zeromind_Eric

    Posted Jul 25, 2006 1:40 pm PT

    Surprising to see a game like Cars on these lists but at the same time, not so surprising. I used to get sucked into the marketing too when I was that young.

  • glitchgeeman

    Posted Jul 25, 2006 12:03 pm PT

    Wow, america is so casual. At least 7 of those games are either NCAA Football 07 or Cars. Oh well, at least NSMB and Brain age are on the list.

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