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THE GAMES PEOPLE BUY

What were the 100 best selling games in North America last year? Next-Gen has compiled a list, with all platforms aggregated, as well as full analysis on the issues facing publishers and developers as they strive to maximize sales. Click through for more...

Let's welcome in Media Create's record of the past week's game sales in Japan. This is where you'll get big numbers and not-so-big numbers, mixed in with the crucial numbers one through ten -- a mathematician's wet dream. Firstly, here's this week's chart, with combined total sales of titles inside those pouting parentheses:

1) Virtua Fighter 5 - 48,346 units sold last week (new entry / Sega, PS3)
2) Wii Sports - 45,897 (1,004,555 units sold to date / Nintendo, Wii)
3) Wii Play - 36,090 (879,432 / Nintendo, Wii)
4) More Brain Training - 32,800 (3,963,712 / Nintendo, DS)
5) New Super Mario Bros. - 29,026 (4,118,078 / Nintendo DS)
6) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 27,519 (304,113 / Capcom, PS2)
7) Wario: Master of Disguise - 26,815 (185,695 / Nintendo, DS)
8) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On - 26,804 (106,212 / Marvelous, DS)
9) Luminous Arc - 25,676 (new entry / Marvelous, DS)
10) J-League Pro Soccer 5 - 24,468 (131,541 / Sega, PS2)

The Burning Crusade shifts 3.5 million copies

WoW expansion prepares for launch in China after western success

Blizzard has announced that sales of The Burning Crusade expansion pack for World of Warcraft have topped 3.5 million units - with the pack as yet unlaunched in the enormous Chinese market.

The game has sold some 1.6 million copies in Europe to date, with 1.9 million copies shifted in countries which play on the North American servers - including Australasia (some 100,000 copies), Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia.

The Japanese top ten follows, with weekly sales figures:

1. Yoshi's Island DS / 303,114 DS
2. Monster Hunter Portable 2 / 93,099 PSP
3. Layton Kyoujo no Fushigi na Machi / 45,344 DS
4. Kenka Banchou 2: Full Throttle / 42,131 PS2
5. Super Robot Taisen W / 36,310 DS
6. Wii Sports / 35,298 Wii
7. Gundam Musou / 31,145 PS3
8. Dragon Quest Monsters – Joker / 26,452 DS
9. Wii Play / 26,340 Wii
10. Motto Nou o Kitaeru Otona DS Training / 20,716 DS

The first Tetris game released in 1985 for the PC. Since then, the game has released across nearly every game system and sold more than 70 million units worldwide. Over a three year span, THQ shipped more than two million units of Tetris Worlds for the Xbox, Game Boy Advance and Windows PC.

On the software front, God of War II climbed its way to the top of the charts with 833K units, taking advantage of the huge PS2 user base. Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for Xbox 360 was a distant second with 394K sold while Guitar Hero II for Xbox 360 sold 291K coming in third.

Four of the top 10 games were for Xbox 360, two were for PS2, two were for DS, one was for Wii (Wii Play w/ Remote with 273K) and one for PS3 (MotorStorm, 199K).

In less than one month, God of War II became the best-selling title of the January-March quarter.

PC

1) World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi - $3,345,464 grossed
2) Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Electronic Arts - $3,262,078 grossed
3) The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts
4) Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Kane Edition - Electronic Arts
5) The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts
6) World Of Warcraft - Vivendi
7) Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl - THQ
8) Supreme Commander - THQ
9) Age Of Empires III - Microsoft - 17,936 units sold; $864,335 grossed
10) Microsoft Flight Simulator X Deluxe - Microsoft - 11,959 units sold; $786,820 grossed
11) Battlefield 2142 - Electronic Arts
12) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Shivering Isles Expansion Pack - 2K Games
13) The Sims: Life Stories - Electronic Arts
14) Medieval II: Total War - Sega of America
15) The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts
16) Titan Quest: Immortal Throne Expansion Pack - THQ
17) Warcraft III Battle Chest - Vivendi
18) Civilization IV - 2K Games
19) The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - $542,790 grossed
20) Vanguard: Saga Of Heroes - Sony Online Entertainment - $533,884 grossed

When you rank the top 10 by units sold rather than gross income it all looks rather different:

1) The Sims 2 Seasons Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - 104,758 units sold
2) World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi - 87,087 units sold
3) World Of Warcraft - Vivendi
4) Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Electronic Arts
5) The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts
6) Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars Kane Edition - Electronic Arts
7) Stalker: Shadow Of Chernobyl - THQ
8) Supreme Commander - THQ
9) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Shivering Isles Expansion Pack - 2K Games - 25,201 units sold
10) 3333 XP Games JC - Viva Media - 24,938 units sold

And now the console charts, all of which are ranked by gross income.

Xbox 360

1) Guitar Hero 2 With Guitar - $25,578,100 grossed; 291,434 units sold
2) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighting Battleperson 2 - $23,343,680 grossed; 394,481 units sold
3) Major League Baseball 2K7
4) Def Jam Icon
5) Crackdown a.k.a. The Halo 3 Beta Game
6) Gears of War
7) Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas
8) Armored Core 4
9) NBA Street Homecourt - $3,069,938 grossed; 51,368 units sold
10) Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - $2,614,490 grossed; 43,887 units sold

Wii

1) Wii Play With Remote - $13,573,160 grossed; 272,919 units sold
2) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - $6,048,062 grossed; 121,428 units sold
3) Sonic And The Secret Rings
4) Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
5) Warioware: Smooth Moves
6) Cooking Mama: Cook Off
7) Rayman Raving Rabbids
8) SSX Blur
9) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $1,454,085 grossed; 29,226 units sold
10) Call of Duty 3 - $1,114,600 grossed; 25,347 units sold

Playstation 3

1) MotorStorm - $11,896,100 grossed; 199,075 units sold
2) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - $4,463,276 grossed; 75,138 units sold
3) Def Jam Icon
4) Resistance: Fall of Man
5) NBA Street Homecourt
6) Major League Baseball 2K7
7) Virtua Fighter 5
8) The Godfather: The Don's Edition
9) Formula One Championship Edition - $1,361,988 grossed; 22,792 units sold
10) Armored Core 4 - $1,207,098 grossed; 20,220 units sold

Playstation 2

1) God of War II - $41,531,780 grossed; 833,209 units sold
2) Guitar Hero 2 With Guitar - $11,329,750 grossed; 143,399 units sold
3) Major League Baseball 07: The Show
4) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
5) God of War
6) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
7) Major League Baseball 2K7
8) Guitar Hero
9) WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2007 - $1,735,801 grossed; 35,377 units sold
10) DDR Super Nova Bundle - $1,735,405 grossed; 29,039 units sold

GameCube

1) Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - $2,257,489 grossed; 45,212 units sold
2) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - $1,046,565 grossed; 26,253 units sold
3) Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2
4) Super Smash Brothers Melee
5) Lego Star Wars
6) Mario Kart: Double Dash
7) Paper Mario: Thousand Doors
8) Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
9) Super Mario Strikers - $403,854 grossed; 13,485 units sold
10) Mario Superstar Baseball - $370,920 grossed; 12,369 units sold

Xbox

1) Halo 2 - $1,463,830 grossed; 49,214 units sold
2) Major League Baseball 2K7 - $827,138 grossed; 27,936 units sold
3) Need For Speed: Carbon
4) Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
5) Call of Duty 3
6) Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
7) Scarface: The World Is Fucking Yours
8) NBA Live 07
9) Lego Star Wars - $264,743 grossed; 14,135 units sold
10) Fable - $254,491 grossed; 12,813 units sold

Overall Top 30

1) God of War II - Playstation 2
2) Guitar Hero 2 With Guitar - Xbox 360
3) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 - Xbox 360
4) Wii Play With Remote - Wii
5) MotorStorm - Playstation 3
6) Guitar Hero 2 With Guitar - Playstation 2
7) Major League Baseball 2K7 - Xbox 360
8) Def Jam Icon - Xbox 360
9) Crackdown - Xbox 360
10) Major League Baseball 07: The Show - Playstation 2
11) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 - Wii
12) Gears of War - Xbox 360
13) Sonic And The Secret Rings - Wii
14) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Playstation 3
15) Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Wii
16) Warioware: Smooth Moves - Wii
17) Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas - Xbox 360
18) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Playstation 2
19) Def Jam Icon - Playstation 2
20) Armored Core 4 - Xbox 360
21) Resistance: Fall of Man - Playstation 3
22) NBA Street Homecourt - Xbox 360
23) NBA Street Homecourt - Playstation 3
24) Major League Baseball 2K7 - Playstation 3
25) Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Xbox 360
26) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Xbox 360
27) The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Xbox 360
28) God of War - Playstation 2
29) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories - Playstation 2
30) DDR Universe Bundle - Xbox 360

Sony's aging PS2 also impressed Frazier. "Though I have expected the PS2 to continue to have a long life into the next-gen cycle, March's unit sales of PS2 hardware showed growth versus the same month last year, and in fact it was the best-selling console system for the month. Certainly price point and ample retail inventory play into this, and it's a testament to the size of the more mass market consumer segment. Of course this bodes extremely well for the future of PS2 software sales going forward."

Ubisoft's big game for the quarter was Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on the Xbox 360, which has sold 1 million units. Titles from late last year have also continued to do well, including Rainbow Six Vegas, which is now up to 1.7 million in sales, as well as the company's two key Wii titles - Red Steel has sold 950,000, with Rayman Raving Rabbids just below it at 850,000 units.

Title:Gish
Developer: Chronic Logic
Released: May 2004
Development time: About 6 months with three developers.
Platforms: Windows, OSX and Linux

Development Expenses:
Sounds and music: $3500
Of the $3500 only $500 was paid up front and the rest was a percent of royalties after Gish was released and selling.

Marketing Expenses:
Independent Games Festival (IGF) entry fees: $200.00
Rough estimate of Affiliate and other fees: $2000.00

Total Expenses: $5700.00

The time of the developers and the cost of office space, computers, etc. is not taken into account here.

Sales from chroniclogic.com per year:
2004: 2587
2005: 1335
2006: 449
2007: 140 (through April)
Misc others sales: 10

Total Sales: 4521

Price: $19.95 USD

SWREG (Credit card orders): $79543.98
PayPal: $1436.86
Manual orders (checks, cash, money orders): $195.48

Approximate net sales from chroniclogic.com: $81176.32

Total income from other sites: $6212.04
(Garage Games, Reflexive Arcade, Linspire, Totalgaming.net and Manifesto games)

IGF Prize winnings: $16000.00

Total Retail publishing: $17539.71
(Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Russian, Singapore and Malaysia)

Approximate total income: $121,000 USD

With more than 900,000 units of “Crackdown” sold-through in only two months, Microsoft Game Studios and Realtime Worlds are extending the game’s unparalleled experience, offering gamers several exciting new features, including vehicles, weapons, game modes and seven highly explosive, new Achievements.

Hardware Sales For April

* Nintendo DS - 471K
* Wii - 360K
* PlayStation 2 - 194K
* PlayStation Portable - 183K
* Xbox 360 - 174K
* Game Boy Advance - 84K
* PLAYSTATION 3 - 82K
* GameCube - 13K

Top 10 Software Sales For April

01. Pokemon Diamond (DS) - 1.045M
02. Pokemon Pearl (DS) - 712K
03. Super Paper Mario (Wii) - 352K
04. Wii Play (Wii) - 249K
05. Guitar Hero II (Xbox 360) - 197K
06. Guitar Hero II (PS2) - 142K
07. Spider-Man 3 (Xbox 360) - 117K
08. Spider-Man 3 (PS2) - 105K
09. God of War II (PS2) - 101K
10. MLB '07: The Show (PS2) - 79K

Desktop Tower of Money: 3 tips to profit from casual games

So here’s a couple ways to a create successful game online:

a), Find an investor who’s crazy enough to give you millions of dollars, or b), Put it on a distribution network and hope you get enough customers willing to buy it as a download.

Then there’s c), Make a Flash mini-game, let people play it for free, and watch the ad revenue pour in when the site gets 20 million pageviews a month.

As announced in April, Ubisoft's sales hit EUR 680 million during 2007 - an increase of almost 25 per cent. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shifted more than 1 million copies, as did Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, while other good performers included Rainbow Six Vegas (1.7 million) and Wii exclusive Red Steel (950,000).

AZADA SALES ESTIMATION:
Estimated sold copies: average 500 per day (from Big Fish Games portal)
Price: $20 (or $7 with game pass).
Estimated average price: about $17 (assuming 25% of buyers use game pass)
Total estimated income: $250,000 (in the first month after the release)
Downloads: 600 000 in first two weeks, estimated 1 000 000 downloads in the first month
Estimated conversion rate:1.5%

The company also noted that its subscriber base has continued to grow from the 9 million mark it celebrated in July to more than 9.3 million, which it says is up more than one million subscribers since December 31 of last year.

Microsoft has confirmed to GameDaily BIZ that BioWare's critically acclaimed RPG is off to a red hot start with one million copies sold in less than three weeks.

Research firm NPD Group said that EA and Crytek's critically lauded FPS Crysis sold just 86,633 units last month, following its release on November 13.

Midway and Epic Games’ Unreal Tournament 3 for PC fared even worse, selling just 33,995. However, sales will be supplemented by PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions. The game launched for PC on November 19, also receiving strong reviews.

The annual top 10 is as follows:

1. Halo 3 (Xbox 360, Microsoft) - 4.82 million
2. Wii Play w/remote (Wii, Nintendo) - 4.12 million
3. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360, Activision) - 3.04 million
4. Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock w/guitar (PlayStation 2, Neversoft/Budcat/Activision) 2.72 million
5. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) - 2.52 million
6. Pokemon Diamond (DS, Nintendo) - 2.48 million
7. Madden NFL 08 (PS2, Electronic Arts) - 1.90 million
8. Guitar Hero II w/guitar (PS2, Activision) - 1.89 million
9. Assassin's Creed (Xbox 360, Ubisoft) - 1.87 million
10. Mario Party 8 (Wii, Nintendo) - 1.82 million