Australia's top selling games for 2006 revealed

Twilight Princess, Lego Star Wars 2, and Need for Speed Carbon among top sellers down under last year.

Nintendo and THQ were the big winners in 2006 down under, with both companies scoring two games each in the list of Australia's best-selling games for the year.

The best-seller lists--which are based on GfK Australia sales data from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006--charted the top games by genre, although GfK declined to disclose specific sales figures or an overall top seller.

Australia's best-selling games for 2006 are listed below. Figures take into account sales across all platforms for a particular game and are based on overall sales value, not quantity sold.

Best-Selling Adventure
Cars, THQ

Best-Selling Role-Playing Game
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Nintendo

Best-Selling Action
Lego Star Wars 2, Activision

Best-Selling Racing
Need for Speed Carbon, EA

Best-Selling Sports
WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007, THQ

Best-Selling Simulator
Nintendogs: Dalmatian and Friends, Nintendo

Best-Selling Party/Social Game
SingStar Rocks!, Sony Computer Entertainment

Best-Selling Children's Educational
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, Vivendi

49 Comments

  • CausticBox

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 7:12 am PT

    They have a category for children's educational games and no section for strategy games. Who the hell made this list?!

  • soldier1993

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 6:47 am PT

    ????????? CRAPPY GAMES !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Reetesh

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 4:35 am PT

    Cars is an ADVENTURE game?
    Zelda is a RPG game?
    Barbie....... is a GAME ?

    Woah! the aussie classification of games is very strange.

    Atleast they consider WWE as a Sport

  • cenz_is

    Posted Feb 28, 2007 3:00 am PT

    no gears?

  • wenbin09

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 8:45 pm PT

    Cars as best selling adventure???

  • mr_fox_man

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 7:42 pm PT

    This list is a strange one, i live in Australia and we have like 99% percent of the games that the U.S gets. these are probably the games that a lot of parents bought.

  • Pete5506

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 7:29 pm PT

    its good to see that they like zelda over there

  • _bl0cka

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 7:05 pm PT

    This is a cross platform list people. Cars and Lego Star Wars were released on pretty much every format imaginable. Hence sales winners. The categories are stupid though - shooters would have to be in the top 3 categories here for sure and it doesn't even get it's own category on this list? Very Strange

  • Pablo620

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:45 pm PT

    I would hate to live and game in Australia. Live not so bad, but i wouldnt want to be a gamer

  • cjcr_alexandru

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 10:07 am PT

    Where's WoW?

  • FallenAngel

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 9:06 am PT

    Best selling adventure game was Cars. That says it all about the games that get released in the land down under. Poor Aussies.

  • rykaziel

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 8:38 am PT

    Why is Zelda still considered an RPG?

  • eddymunch

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 8:36 am PT

    Its about time "Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus" got some props.

  • HaaZ

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 8:17 am PT

    What a odd list

  • Duck454545

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 7:07 am PT

    Dragatto - You seem to think war/fighting are the be all and end all of video games!?! There are sooooo many genres of games out there that are just as much fun to play that don't involve killing/ blowing up people!! As for NFS : Carbon I'm not gonna even comment on "that redeeming them" !!

  • blacktorn

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:59 am PT

    I'm guessing Zelda is the best selling game overall in austraillia?

  • GrayHalo

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:44 am PT

    *gives Australia the thumbs up. . .then remembers that thumbs up in Australia means up yours, and runs away*

  • LordReithgar

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:43 am PT

    You have to take in considerations, games comes out months after they are released in Australia. As mentioned FF XII has only been released and many other great titles that came out last year have yet to be released.

  • Mark2099

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:22 am PT

    ewwww

  • KiRuR

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:18 am PT

    lol looks to me that there are no gamers in australia only kids...

  • Berserker_2

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:08 am PT

    There's something wrong with this list.

  • Pastehunter

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 6:02 am PT

    Barby .. wtf ?!?!?!? Man thats pathetic

  • Re_ensurer

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:56 am PT

    Cars.

  • Dragotto

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:54 am PT

    i have a question, does anyone in australia even play games that simulate war or real fighting? another question i have is, does australia even get shipments of FPS? if they don't, then all i can say is that it sucks to live in australia and play video games. however they do play NFS: Carbon, but to me that can not redeem the fact that cars even fits in the adventure section.

  • byronman91

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:47 am PT

    Cars, the best adventure game in the history of ever and I still dont consider Zelda an RPG..

  • samad5

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:19 am PT

    crumble114 ''Cars... the best selling ADVENTURE?!?!?! >_>''

    You took the words right out of my mouth!

  • samad5

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:19 am PT

    crumble114 ''Cars... the best selling ADVENTURE?!?!?! >_>''

    You took the words right out of my mouth!

  • Raymin4

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:19 am PT

    WWE SmackDown should be listed under the "Manly Soap Opera Game" Category...Wrestling.... not a sport...

  • slayer1090

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:05 am PT

    No one cares about an overated shooter like Gears

  • slayer1090

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 4:03 am PT

    No one cares about an overrated shooter like gears. I've played it and it's not all people say it is

  • Wej_accept_it

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 3:48 am PT

    Half Life 2: Episode 2 and Gears of War don't even get mentioned, WTF???

  • lostn

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 3:26 am PT

    Lego Star Wars outsold Gears of War. lawl.

  • crumble114

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 3:10 am PT

    Cars... the best selling ADVENTURE?!?!?! >_>

  • jpfondeur

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 2:18 am PT

    is wrestling (in the WWE sense) a sport? I thought it was more of a spectacle, And isn't cars a driving game??? O_o

  • the-very-best

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 1:59 am PT

    That's sad that Cars is one of the best selling games here in Australia.

  • xInDiViDuaLx

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 1:43 am PT

    Shouldn't Zelda be under "Adventure" ?

  • anamnawshad

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 1:35 am PT

    Cars

  • ShuuMutou

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 1:18 am PT

    WWE? Ewww no. Yuucky....erm....Wii Sports should be up there...xDD

  • TryMe01

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 12:37 am PT

    smackdown is more like improvised sport... shame really

  • Passa91

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 12:21 am PT

    Um, its sad that WWE SmackDown is the top selling sports title. Hardly classified as a 'sport' anyway, WWE should be something relegated to the USA and leave it at that.

  • user_nat

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:50 pm PT

    Missing a few genres there..

  • Darkside5675

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:42 pm PT

    Lego... Star Wars?

    Everyone: FFXII was only JUST released in Australia a few days ago! It would easily be a best seller if it was released last year!

  • langrisser2005

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:29 pm PT

    Ugh. Yes FFXII only just released in Australia. Most titles are unsurprising from following the weekly Aus charts.

  • SuperTramp707

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:25 pm PT

    It's not there because Zelda beat it...

  • TheCrimsonKoopa

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:11 pm PT

    Cars isn't an Adventure game, Zelda isn't an RPG?

  • BenderUnit22

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:10 pm PT

    no, FFXII just came out Feb 23 in PAL regions

  • Justinoheat

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:04 pm PT

    Actually, it was released in October

  • solidte

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:01 pm PT

    FFXII wasn't released in 2006.

  • kefka95

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 10:53 pm PT

    Good to see Zelda up there - where's FFXII?

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