Madden NFL 07 Passes 2 Million Mark

Posted Aug 31, 2006 at 7:34PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Tags: Best Buy, EA Sports, GBA, Japan, NFL
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Madden NFL 07
has become the fastest-selling Madden game in history. In its first week of release, the game sold over two million copies! This is, of course, counting all platforms and all editions of the game. If you average it out amongst the GameCube, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation2, PlayStation Portable, GBA, PC, Xbox 360 Hall of Fame Edition, and PlayStation2 Hall of Fame Edition versions (poor NGage), the game averages to about 200,000 copies per console sold. And that's A LOT.

This number is further supported by last week's Best Buy top games chart:

1. Madden NFL 07 (PS2)
2. Madden NFL 07 (360)
3. Madden NFL 07 (XBX)
4. Madden NFL 07: Hall of Fame Edition (PS2)
5. Madden NFL 07: Hall of Fame Edition (360)
6. Madden NFL 07 (PSP)
7. Madden NFL 07 (GCN)
8. Dead Rising (360)
9. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day (NDS)
10. New Super Mario Bros. (NDS)

Go Go America! The 7 Maddens and Dead Rising knocked down Brain Age and Mario down after spending months at the top two slots! I wonder how the Canadian, Australian, and European charts look? For those wondering, last week's Japan Top 10 had 10 DS games with Final Fantasy III in the #1 slot with over 500,000 copies sold in five days.

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2006-08-31 19:12:21
first

First!!!
by - 2006-08-31 19:19:33
...and it only took them screwing every other company...

...out of being able to make NFL titles to pull off that glory. When you control the market alone and it's a desired product of course all the sheep will run with the flock in record time to gobble up the grass.
by - 2006-08-31 19:30:29
God damnit

Madden sucks ass, *****ing casual gamers.
by - 2006-08-31 19:31:13


Holly crap 500 thousand copies in 5 days!!!. On onley the nintendo ds system?. Thats more impressive then maddens sells.
by - 2006-08-31 19:41:31
could this be real?

first time nintendo games not the majority.
by - 2006-08-31 20:12:13
Wow, who really cares!?

So, who cares anyway? Only Madden fanboys would really care that the game took nearly all the positions in the Top 10 chart. BTW, wasn't Madden practically the ONLY game that came out??? It's also the ONLY NFL game to boot, so I don't think it's hard to understand that Madden fanboys and NFL diehards are the only ones who bought this overhyped piece of trash that EA calls a game. Online was lag-a-riffic...wow, 3D grass... Sorry, EA needs competition in order to stir their creative juices. Monopolies are NEVER a good thing...
by - 2006-08-31 20:32:58
I hate Madden

I love your comment s guys!!!!!! I hate madden too!!!!!!!!!!! it rrue how they kee pshipping the same game over and over again...doesnt it get boring after a while? if i wanna play Football i\'d rather get my lazy ass of the couch and play it outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by - 2006-08-31 20:49:40
...

if you dont like madden then get out of here you stupid nerds....
by - 2006-08-31 20:56:14
Casual Gamers, orly!

Madden suck hard, ugly.
by - 2006-08-31 21:26:55
8 versus 2000000

8 negative comments versus 2000000 people that wanted the game. Hmmmm . . . .
by - 2006-08-31 21:32:50
look and see

wow i can't believe ps2 made it number 1 than x60 or x1. i wonder why it did. maybe there many ps2 owners than the rest. even gamecube was beaten
by - 2006-08-31 22:15:03
...

Roster Update 2007. Enough said.
by - 2006-08-31 22:36:47
but whatever

To me sports games are like games based off of movies...badly done yet because the general public knows about that certain item they will buy it
by - 2006-08-31 22:37:14
CAN"T WAIT!!!

CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FREE VERSION USING THE LATEST DEVHOOK AND WITH THE NEW EXPLOITED 2.7 FIRMWARE!! HAHAHAHA, 2 MILLION COPIES? THEN I GUESS THEY WOULDN'T MINE ME USING DEVHOOK TO PLAY IT!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA THANKS QJ.NET FOR ALL THE FREE STOLEN GAMES TUTORIALS!!! GO MADDEN!!!
by - 2006-08-31 22:54:25
dont be stupid

of course its going to sell alot, the only damn NFL football game thats going to be avaiable for the next 5-7 yrs, something like that.
by hackra - 2006-09-01 00:03:12
wtf

Why do people keep on buying EA sports games? They're essentially the SAME GAME as the previous year's release.
by - 2006-09-01 00:57:58
Suck it degeneration X

Hahaha, I knew we'd get some EA fanboys in here. Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. If you're trying to tell me that EA is seriously trying their best every year, you're *****ing hallucinating!!! Madden 06 was a turd and Madden 07 is just as bad. What's worse is that they got the ESPN license and they've got *****! They throw some ESPN podcasts, ticker tape, and video clips and they call that integration??? Yeah, it's *****in' lame, how about using ESPN for presentation as well, morons! BTW, I still don't give a ***** if EA fanboys want to continue buying their crap. It's their money, if they want to waste it, it's up to them. I love the fact that now they're going to make even more money by using in-game ads and I bet they won't even lower the prices of their games even though they'll make millions off those ads. EA fanboys will just clamor up the excuse "It makes the game more realistic." Whatever, fanboys. We see the truth and you're blinded by EA's schemes and lies.
by - 2006-09-01 01:55:53


There's a certain attitude that is present in youth. It's the "I can only see things from my perspective, and any other perspective is wrong" attitude. It usually stays with you into your mid twenties, and for many it never goes away. Many hate EA, and have some good points as to why they hate them, but to assume that just because somebody doesn't hate them, or doesn't share your view, that they're an "EA fanboy" is just closed minded. I bet most of the haters don't even like sports games to begin with. If I enjoy playing a game, then I don't really care about any of the "politics" envolved, I'm just going to play the game, and enjoy myself. The NFL series is at least improving (if only slightly) every year! The NHL series (for the PC anyways) is actually getting worse every year! I'm so glad that I try before I buy.
by - 2006-09-01 02:08:33
madden h8er

i hate madden football its the most boring game EVER created. although a good few million people say otherwise. im still not an american sh*tball fan. im more football (soccer for the americans) fan. this "software" poses NO enjoyment due to its easiness. Go on then - flame all you like, but we are entitled to our own opinion. if you dont like mine then DONT READ IT.
by - 2006-09-01 05:38:52
No-one outside the USA cares

"I wonder how the Canadian, Australian, and European charts look?" Seeing as the entire rest of the world cares about the REAL sport called football, I doubt Madden made any placing anywhere/
by - 2006-09-01 05:52:53
lol americans

it makes me lol wen idiot *****in americans call rugby football. it makes me lol wen idiot *****in americans have to wear armour to play rugby it makes me lol wen idiot *****in americans have to take a break every 15 mins wen playing rugby americans make me lol, they\'re **** lol
by - 2006-09-01 07:48:12


"8 negative comments versus 2000000 people that wanted the game. Hmmmm . . ." hahahahaha nicely said.
by _Mazza_ - 2006-09-01 07:54:25
To 10 and 22

Yeah I'm sure every person who hates EA has posted in those 8 comments eh no Anyway the Madden Franchise is only popular in the US and FIFA gets criticised in the UK because of the growing popularity of the better game Pro Evolution Soccer.
by - 2006-09-01 07:56:20
Americans...

lol
by - 2006-09-01 09:08:36
hahah funny

go go America? you praised madden and dead rising for pushing down japanese games.... Dead Rising IS A JAPANESE GAME. hahahah!!!!
by - 2006-09-01 17:09:24
Who cares about non-Americans

Get out of this forum, you don't belong here if you don't like football. The real football where you have to be tough to play, unlike soccer. Anyway, Madden sucks. ESPN NFL 2k5 lives on forever!
by Gam3Guy - 2006-09-01 18:57:47


lol #8 calling them stupid nerds while u sit on your nerdy ass playing the game haha u *****
by - 2006-09-02 10:58:14
Reply

#20, that's what I was referring to =) #25, The two sentences were a bit unrelated. I was kind of commenting on the US' tastes. I know that Dead Rising is Japanese ;) #26, I think I belong here even if I don't like football. I'm Canadian. Our sport, hockey, is just as physical - if not more physical - than football =)

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