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Hardware releases[]

Revenues[]

  • Total revenue - $12.5 billion (+19% YOY) ($13.5 billion including PC games[1]
  • Game revenue - $6.5 billion (+6.4%)
    • Console - $4.8 billion (+2.6%)
    • Portable - $1.7 billion (+18.8%)
  • Hardware - $4.6 billion (+42.8%)
    • Console - $2.9 billion (+87.5%)
    • Portable - $1.6 billion (-0.3%)
  • Accessories - ~$1.4 billion

PC games - $970 million[2]

Hardware sales[]

  1. Xbox 360 - 3.896M
  2. Wii - 1.08M
  3. PS3 - 688K
  4. NDS - 6.2 million units in the US (as of September 2006)

Top Software[]

Platform specific

  1. Madden NFL 07, PS2, EA—2.8 million
  2. New Super Mario Bros., DS, Nintendo—2 million
  3. Gears of War, Xbox 360, Microsoft—1.8 million
  4. Kingdom Hearts II, PS2, Square Enix—1.7 million
  5. Guitar Hero II, PS2, Activision—1.3 million
  6. Final Fantasy XII, PS2, Square Enix—1.3 million
  7. Brain Age: Train Your Brain, DS, Nintendo—1.1 million
  8. Madden NFL 07, Xbox 360, EA—1.1 million
  9. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Xbox 360, Ubisoft—1 million
  10. NCAA Football 07, PS2, EA—1 million

2024 update[]

In January 2024, Circana published revised rankings for the year based on revenue.[3]

  1. Madden NFL 07
  2. Gears of War
  3. NCAA Football 07
  4. Guitar Hero II
  5. LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
  6. Call of Duty 3
  7. Cars
  8. Need for Speed: Carbon
  9. Kingdom Hearts II
  10. Fight Night: Round 3
  11. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  12. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
  13. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  14. Call of Duty 2
  15. Need for Speed: Most Wanted
  16. New Super Mario Bros.
  17. Final Fantasy XII
  18. Nintendogs
  19. WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw 2007
  20. Guitar Hero

Top selling accessories[]

December 2006 only

  • 360 Wireless Controller--823.8 K
  • Wii Remote Controller--646.7 K
  • Wii Nunchuk Controller--497.1 K
  • PS2 8MB Memory Card--474.8 K
  • PS3 Sixaxis Wireless Controller--336.0 K

Months[]

References[]

Analysis[]



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