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Aussie game charts: January 1-7

By Randolph Ramsay, GameSpot AUPosted Jan 10, 2007 7:17 pm PT

Cricket 07 bowls in at number one; Twilight Princess falls out of overall top 10.

Aussie gamers are obviously keen to emulate the Australian cricket team's routing of England in the recent Ashes series, with EA's Cricket 07 for the PS2 romping into number one position in the first game sales charts for 2007.

Cricket 07 knocked off WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007 for the PS2 from the top spot, with the wrestling title slipping to fourth position in the sales charts for the week of January 1 to 7, according to data trackers GfK Australia. Sony's current-gen console had five representatives in the overall top 10; the Nintendo DS scored the next biggest haul with three entries.

Gears of War continued its strong run and was once again the sole Xbox 360 title in the overall top 10. The Nintendo Wii's only representative of recent weeks--The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess--slipped out of the top 10 this week.

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

Top 10 Full-Priced Games
1. Cricket 07, PS2
2. Need for Speed Carbon, PS2
3. The Sims 2: Pets, PC
4. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007, PS2
5. Gears of War, Xbox 360
6. Guitar Hero II bundle, PS2
7. Singstar Rocks! bundle, PS2
8. Nintendogs: Dalmatian and Friends, Nintendo DS
9. New Super Mario Bros., Nintendo DS
10. Crash Boom Bang, Nintendo DS

Top 10 Game Boy Advance Games (over A$40)
1. Pokémon Emerald
2. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team
3. Pokémon Ruby
4. Pokémon Sapphire
5. Happy Feet
6. Bratz: Forever Diamonds
7. Bratz Rock Angelz
8. Donkey Kong Country 3
9. Dogz Fashion
10. Lego Star Wars 2

Top 10 Wii Games (over A$50)
1. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
2. Red Steel
3. Rayman Raving Rabbids
4. Need for Speed Carbon
5. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
6. Call of Duty 3
7. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
8. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
9. Madden NFL 07
10. Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam

Top 10 PC Games (over A$20)
1. The Sims 2: Pets
2. World of Warcraft
3. Age of Empires III
4. The Sims 2: Open for Business
5. The Sims 2: Nightlife
6. The Sims 2: Happy Holiday Stuff
7. The Sims 2
8. EA Warfare Collection
9. Desperate Housewives
10. The Sims 2: University

Top 10 Nintendo DS Games (over A$40)
1. Nintendogs: Dalmatian and Friends
2. New Super Mario Bros
3. Crash Boom Bang
4. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
5. Pokemon Ranger
6. The Sims 2: Pets
7. Happy Feet
8. Mario Kart
9. Nintendogs: Dachshund and Friends
10. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team

Top 10 PS2 Games (over A$50)
1. Cricket 07
2. Need for Speed Carbon
3. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007
4. Guitar Hero II bundle
5. SingStar Rocks! bundle
6. Buzz! Junior Jungle Party bundle
7. Australian Idol Sing
8. Scarface: The World Is Yours
9. Canis Canem Edit (Bully)
10. Buzz! The Sports Quiz bundle

Top 10 PSP games (over A$40)
1. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
2. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007
3. Need for Speed Carbon
4. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
5. Tekken: Dark Resurrection
6. Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
7. Lemmings
8. Sonic Rivals
9. Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
10. Family Guy

Top 10 Xbox Games (over A$50)
1. Call of Duty 3
2. Need for Speed Carbon
3. Scarface: The World Is Yours
4. FIFA 2007
5. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
6. Lego Star Wars 2
7. Eragon
8. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
9. Superman Returns
10. Destroy All Humans! 2

Top 10 Xbox 360 Games (over A$50)
1. Gears of War
2. Massive Entertainment Pack
3. Need for Speed Carbon
4. Saints Row
5. Fight Night Round 3
6. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
7. Call of Duty 3
8. Viva Pinata
9. WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2007
10. FIFA 2007

All data supplied by GfK Australia.

44 Comments

  • Params7_GS

    Posted Jan 12, 2007 9:31 am PT

    Baseball developed from Cricket. Cricket is being played in the British since 1600's!! On top of that Cricket is played on an International Level, has its own World Cup (March-April, Cricket World Cup 2007 in the Carrribean baby!!)

  • jakie91

    Posted Jan 12, 2007 12:28 am PT

    Yeah i know what you all mean about Zelda. Well cant be helped well i understand Gears of War, Guitar Hero II, Cricket 07, and maybe NFS but come on, Crash Boom Bang!!! I thought that crashed and burned years ago? Well anyway there is still next month to see that best

  • PCJ_Oz

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 5:38 pm PT

    hootie017
    its cricket, who cares? its a bastardized form of baseball............... Its the other way around baseball is the bastardisation of cricket

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 1:37 pm PT

    long live cricket baby, I should be living in australia

  • wire-dj

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 1:32 pm PT

    BLACKLACE this is the Austrailian chart

  • blackace

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 12:11 pm PT

    I didn't even know a Cricket game existed. Only in the U.K. I guess. I'm shocked that Zelda isn't in the top 10 though. I know the Wii is scarce in the U.K. as it is everywhere else, but come on. Zelda should have easily beat out SingStar and Nintendogs.

  • Gmacrusher

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 11:28 am PT

    Wow this game ruled over the other...didn't see that happening!!

  • meimnobody

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 11:02 am PT

    Not a lot of Wiis to go around in Aus. They sell out each shipment.

  • OfficialBed

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 10:08 am PT

    crash beat zelda?...lame

  • OfficialBed

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 10:07 am PT

    crash beat zelda?

  • madrunner

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 9:09 am PT

    ps2 still the champion!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • THEmassacre325

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 7:47 am PT

    SONY RULES

  • DaveoVC

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 7:13 am PT

    Australia though has the most horrible Gaming charts in the world, for like 6 months Buzz the quiz game was in the top 10 and look, Crash is selling the most for DS ... wtf.

    I completely agree, makes it kind of embarassing being an Australian gamer. I'm quite shocked Twilight Princess has totally dropped out of the top 10 though.

  • Zeroni76ers2131

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 7:04 am PT

    Whhy does ea dominate even though they bring to the market games that r full of bugs or more dissapointing than the last(nfs carbon,NBA LIVE 07,fifa 07 etc)?

  • Bathyj

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 6:16 am PT

    ( In a reggae voice ) We dont like cricket, oh no. We love it !!!
    hootie017 baseball can't even compare to cricket. Seriously, watch some cable dude, its the best sport in the world an I dont just say that because we are the best in the world at it, (but it helps).

    I know our charts always show alot of the party type games. I've never been into them. I guess alot of Aussie gamers are casual and there are just so many playstations. I mean, who doesn't have a playstation 2 nowdays. Its almost like saying you dont have a TV or a microwave. I will say one thing, I recently bought Guitar Heros 2 for my nephew. Man, its so much fun. I never would have though til I played it and actually started to feel like I was making the music. Without even meaning to, you can get carried away and start jumping around like a duck on a hotplate. Too cool. Shame you can import tracks but the song are really good too. Gunners, Rage, Nivarna, even bloody Black Sabbath WAR PIGS !!! Did you kids know before Ozzie Osborn was a TV star he used to be in a band?

  • BelmontMaster

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 6:06 am PT

    Hey Nemesis23345, There is nothing wrong with certain games outselling others there. Just because they buy different games more so than we do doesn't mean you can just bash them.

  • Nemesis23345

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 5:48 am PT

    If big rigs came to Australia , it would probably be in the top 10 too

  • Nemesis23345

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 5:46 am PT

    yes cricket is a great game and 07 is apparently a big improvement over the craptastic cricket 05, and if it even comes remotely close to recapturing the brilliance of cricket, then it should be on top.

  • hisup123

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 4:53 am PT

    Cricket 07 deserves to be on the first place.

  • SumerianDaemon

    Posted Jan 11, 2007 4:44 am PT

    $1000?what are you talking about?

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