Aussie game charts: October 30-November 5

SingStar, Buzz games dominate Aussie top 10; Krome Studios' Spyro lands at number five.

SYDNEY--In Australia, karaoke is king. Sony's latest addition to its popular SingStar range, SingStar Legends, topped the Aussie game sales charts this week, knocking down last week's number one--EA's The Sims 2: Pets--to second spot.

SingStar Legend's number one position in the overall charts for the week of October 30 to November 5 capped off an impressive week for the PS2, with seven of the top 10 games belonging to Sony's current-gen console, according to data trackers GfK Australia. Canis Canem Edit (known as Bully in the US) for the PS2 secured third spot, with The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning from Australian studio Krome landing at number five.

Sony's Buzz series of trivia games was the other big winner, with three Buzz games making the top 10. Nintendo's DS had two entries in the overall charts, while the Xbox 360 crashed out this week with no top 10 inclusions.

All sales stats, including console-by-console breakdowns, can be found below:

Top 10 Full-Priced Games
1. SingStar Legends bundle, PS2
2. The Sims 2: Pets, PC
3. Canis Canem Edit, PS2
4. Buzz! Junior Jungle Party bundle, PS2
5. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, PS2
6. Melbourne Cup Challenge, PS2
7. The Sims 2: Pets, Nintendo DS
8. Buzz! The Music Quiz bundle, PS2
9. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, Nintendo DS
10. Buzz! Junior Jungle Party (software only), PS2

Top 10 Game Boy Advance Games (over AU$40)
1. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team
2. Crash and Spyro Pack Vol 3
3. Catz 2005
4. Dogz 2005
5. Star Wars Trilogy
6. Crash and Spyro Pack Vol 2
7. Pokemon Emerald
8. Cars
9. Over the Hedge
10. Bratz Rock Angelz

Top 10 GameCube Games (over AU$50)
1. Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness
2. Mario Smash Football
3. Mario Party 7
4. Cars
5. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
6. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
7. Mario Power Tennis
8. NFS Most Wanted
9. Mario Party 6
10. FIFA 2007

Top 10 PC Games (over AU$20)
1. The Sims 2: Pets
2. Battlefield 2142
3. Microsoft Flight Simulator X
4. Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs
5. World of Warcraft
6. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War--Dark Crusade
7. Age of Empires III
8. Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
9. Company of Heroes
10. Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe Edition

Top 10 Nintendo DS Games (over AU$40)
1. The Sims 2: Pets
2. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
3. New Super Mario Bros
4. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
5. Horsez
6. Crash Boom Bang
7. Shrek Superslam/Madagascar pack
8. Dr Kawashima's Brain Training
9. Mario Kart
10. Cars

Top 10 PS2 Games (over AU$50)
1. SingStar Legends bundle
2. Canis Canem Edit
3. Buzz! Junior Jungle Party bundle
4. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
5. Melbourne Cup Challenge
6. Buzz! The Music Quiz bundle
7. Buzz! Junior Jungle Party (software only)
8. FIFA 2007
9. The Sims 2: Pets
10. Mortal Kombat Armageddon

Top 10 PSP games (over AU$40)
1. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
2. Tekken: Dark Resurrection
3. FIFA 2007
4. Cars
5. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW
6. Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
7. NFS Most Wanted
8. Daxter
9. Midnight Club Racing 3: Dub Edition
10. Gangs of London

Top 10 Xbox Games (over AU$50)
1. Melbourne Cup Challenge
2. FIFA 2007
3. Lego Star Wars 2
4. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
5. Splinter Cell Double Agent
6. NFS Most Wanted
7. NBA Live 2007
8. Black
9. Destroy All Humans! 2
10. GTA: The Trilogy

Top 10 Xbox 360 Games (over AU$50)
1. FIFA 2007
2. Splinter Cell Double Agent
3. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
4. Saints Row
5. Pro Evolution Soccer 6
6. Test Drive Unlimited
7. Marvel Ultimate Alliance
8. Dead Rising
9. Project Gotham Racing 3
10. Genuine Wireless Fun Pack

All data supplied by GfK Australia.

27 Comments

  • tdr_bushi

    Posted Nov 11, 2006 4:14 pm PT

    yeah, the party games seem to be popular over here
    our top 10 looks pretty crap lol

  • Slaveways

    Posted Nov 11, 2006 8:30 am PT

    lol, most aussies have really bad taste

  • darklord888

    Posted Nov 11, 2006 4:07 am PT

    Horrible top 10, just horrible.

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 8:57 am PT

    Not a single Xbox360 game in Top 10 and only one Sims 2 game in PC Top 10... The world is changing.

  • lvlUNE3B

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 8:52 am PT

    strange line up for ps2!

  • Dolacide

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 8:18 am PT

    Man, that's alot of PS2 games in the over all top 10.

  • Gmacrusher

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 8:08 am PT

    Those are strait forward data.....with there prices.

  • huscosft

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 5:51 am PT

    Torrent 4 life

  • smc_sewer

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 3:58 am PT

    TBL-1
    smc_sewer, vote labour (if your over 1

    Are you kidding their just as bad as the libs, I,m so over pollies! they are all full of it.
    Sir Joh was the best err well the funniest of the lot ,he was crooked too.
    I have little respect for pollies and the people that work for them with the exception of a few public servants eg firemen,doctors, nurses but the rest of them are crooks.
    The OFLC keep telling us that they might bring in a R18+ rating for games but i really think thats just to take the pressure off them from all us adults who believe some titles are perfectly suited for us to play

  • NinjaShadows

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 3:27 am PT

    cant wait for gears to dominate :p

  • TBL_1

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 1:22 am PT

    The Top 10 Full-Priced Games list nearly made me cry (Canis Canem Edit).
    smc_sewer, vote labour (if your over 1

  • Bathyj

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 12:04 am PT

    X360 is pretty popular in OZ. Dont forget we only have 20 million people. Its gonna take a while to sell a million consoles. I think alot of people are also waiting for a Wii and PS3.

  • Goody900

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 11:50 pm PT

    Melbourne Cup Challenge is awesome

  • muscrat_01

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 11:12 pm PT

    A few games that got banned.

    Postal 2
    Manhunt (after that stupid thing in the UK)
    Mark Echos Getting Up - ZOMG TEH GRAFFITI!!!

    I honestly dont care, as those games arent great - and I already have Manhunt, and a copied version of Postal er somewhere.. Or I lost it.

    dtt88

    Not many people seem to care about the 360 here......

  • RaiKageRyu

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 9:22 pm PT

    As different as usual.

  • aus_pride

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 9:22 pm PT

    Bully is WICKED I TELL YA, WICKED!!!!!!! oh and smc-sewer even tho i was angry with the gov banning mark eckos, the rest had reason for its banning and i cant say that i really care, thats what ebay is for!

  • smc_sewer

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 8:07 pm PT

    Any game that is considered good gets banned in Australia. Hell we were lucky that Bully passed.
    If the Australian Government had their way we would,nt even be able to find out about cool games that are comming out elsewhere in the world. The internet would be censored, free speach on forums would be deleted and we would be locked up just for thinking for ourselves instead of having the government do it for us.

  • jofy

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 7:43 pm PT

    sony rules

  • ddt88

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 7:21 pm PT

    Just goes to prove that PS2 owners buy any old crap instead of quality titles. 7 out of 10 of the 360 titles are good. The only reason they are not in the top 10 is because there isn't a big enough console base in Australia yet.

  • the-very-best

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 7:15 pm PT

    Hm, I wonder if Gears of War will hit #1 next week. It's being advertised well here so I don't see why not.

  • GizmoVirus

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 6:58 pm PT

    We have to wait ages for new games to come out.....
    The EB local to my work hasnt even gotten Superman Returns in yet and it was released yesterday or Marvel: Ultimate Alliance which was released on the 1st of Nov

  • Weddum

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 6:41 pm PT

    Yet even more proof Aussie gamers have very bad tastes in games.

    The only game there worthy of having a spot in the top 10 is Canis Canem Edit. The rest is awful licenced junk.

  • chicken008

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 5:39 pm PT

    Are a lot of these new releases?

  • blackthegame

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 5:25 pm PT

    very wacky games this past week

  • yuginodo

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 5:12 pm PT

    How is Cars still on the charts?!

  • chuchogalot

    Posted Nov 9, 2006 4:50 pm PT

    WTF is Buzz! Junior Jungle

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