Bestbuy.com best sellers: September 24-30

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpotPosted Oct 5, 2006 1:25 pm PT

Madden continues to tackle the console charts as NBA Live 07, NBA 2K7 double-team a pair of DS newcomers.

Madden mania continued to sweep the nation during the week of September 24 to 30, according to the latest sales rankings from Best Buy's Web site. The PlayStation 2 edition of the game was once again the top dog, with the Xbox 360 version tackling fifth and the Xbox version landing in ninth.

However, strong sales of the next-gen Madden might be affected by EA's announcement this week that it will be releasing additional content on Xbox Live Marketplace. Some have hailed it as a savvy business move, while others have accused EA of trying to nickel and dime consumers by selling them features that should've been in the $60 game in the first place.

The week also saw a different sport finish strong--a sport that no single publisher has a monopoly on. Electronic Arts' NBA Live 07 debuted solidly in second (PS2) and fourth (Xbox 360) places, while rival NBA 2K7 from 2K Sports wound up in third (Xbox 360) and seventh (PS2). Sony's first-party basketball game, NBA 07, fared far worse, spending its first week in stores all the way down in 59th place.

Don't like sports? Well, three non-athletic titles made the top 10 during the week, and all of them were for Nintendo's ever-popular portable, the Nintendo DS. Enduring favorite New Super Mario Bros. remained on the chart at number six, followed by newcomers Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (eighth) and Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (10th).

108 Comments

  • Thorpe89 Site moderator

    Posted Oct 18, 2006 7:17 am PT

    Yes, a whole lot of sports games right there.

  • TekkenMaster606

    Posted Oct 10, 2006 1:43 pm PT

    Live is great. Nothing against 2K Sports but EA is elite, NHL 07 rocks too. I wonder what's up with PSP game sales. Not looking too good.

  • _Sam_

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 5:32 pm PT

    lot of sports games!

  • ludadav

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 10:54 am PT

    Always nice to see

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Oct 9, 2006 6:19 am PT

    another year, another madden............

  • bloody1f4knight

    Posted Oct 8, 2006 4:29 pm PT

    Nice!! I have that game!

  • icyballa24

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 10:18 am PT

    idiots buying live over 2k7...

  • SavoyPrime

    Posted Oct 7, 2006 7:52 am PT

    Man, I wish Live could go back to the status it had back in the Genesis days. *sigh*

  • Manatassi

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:07 pm PT

    awwww Only caught a couple of comments with that, oh well somthing to do if youre bored... oh and Jancotlano. Seriously Basket ball is pretty much evolved from Netball (a girls game) but then netball was evolved from other games as all spots are. Whats interesting is that Basket ball is Semi popular as a neiche sport in the rest of the world whereas American Football is unplayed anywhere else in the world other than Canada and Japan pretty much. But the real comedy comes in with the "World" seires, sporting support from a total of 1 Countries. Anyway have fun with your ever so inventive and remarkably unpopular sports there old boy

  • LosDaddie

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 1:29 pm PT

    Yet another great showing for tthe Xbox360!

  • snarple_basic

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 1:22 pm PT

    Zoidberg54, BURN OUT is not like madden! Burnout compared to other race car games has changes the rules in its games alot more then any other race game. Look at gt3 & 4 not much changed there. Burnout 1 & 2 was more racing, 3 had added take downs, 4 added ramming same way traffic out of your way, all of which make the games feel very different.

    For Madden all they do is update the roster do some photoshop work on the box art and charge you 40-60 bucks for a "New" game lol.

  • rl_41

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 1:20 pm PT

    Yes madden! yes nba 2k7!

  • terrabreak13

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:19 am PT

    jancotianno

    Any sport where the ref has to stop and explain what just happened is retarded. Madden is just a name and from what I'm hearing people preferred NFL 2K.

  • Heavenly_King

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:17 am PT

    The PS2 is on the TOP HAHAHAHAHA !!!

    I WANT MY PS3 NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • lilpjayz

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 11:07 am PT

    NBA 2k7 is better than any game EA ever released

  • piecake

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:48 am PT

    yay 360

  • polopili_basic

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:18 am PT

    Sorry jancotiano, but Basketball was invented by a physician in the Mcgill university, in Quebec, Canada. Americans didn't invent it. Same thing for Hockey, it comes from an amerindian sports game called lacrosse. As for football, they just changed the rules a bit, but the sports comes from many places in Greece and China. You fail. As for most sports game, just buy last year's edition for half of the price, and have the same fun. Who cares about the few change in the teams? It's not like they improved gameplay much.

  • casinater

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:12 am PT

    whats with all the sports games?

  • Going666

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 10:02 am PT

    "get off the sofa and play sports at the park ... it's much more fun. these sports video games are all slow and boring."

    Wow, your lucky. No matter how hard i try, i find it very difficult to find 40 friends, thousands of dollars of equipment, and a football field to go out and play a game of football. Not to mention when its the middle of winter and theres 5 feet of snow on the ground.

    But hey, i guess for people like you this isn't a problem, but i would assume that for many, this will usually be impossible.

  • jancotianno

    Posted Oct 6, 2006 9:57 am PT

    terrabreak
    I would like to see you try to "mob" me. Madden is awesome. You are retarded!

    Mantassi
    You are so dumb. American football is so much more fun to watch than rugby. And netball? Americans invented basketball. End of story. Sorry we are so imaginative and beat the rest of the world at inventing sports, but we are the best.

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