Hardware releases
- Nintendo DS Lite - June
- Wii - November
- Playstation 3 - November
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
- Xbox 360 - 3.896M
- Wii - 1.08M
- PS3 - 688K
- NDS - 6.2 million units in the US (as of September 2006)
Top 10 Software
Platform specific
- Madden NFL 07, PS2, EA—2.8 million
- New Super Mario Bros., DS, Nintendo—2 million
- Gears of War, Xbox 360, Microsoft—1.8 million
- Kingdom Hearts II, PS2, Square Enix—1.7 million
- Guitar Hero II, PS2, Activision—1.3 million
- Final Fantasy XII, PS2, Square Enix—1.3 million
- Brain Age: Train Your Brain, DS, Nintendo—1.1 million
- Madden NFL 07, Xbox 360, EA—1.1 million
- Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, Xbox 360, Ubisoft—1 million
- NCAA Football 07, PS2, EA—1 million
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
- Next-Gen.biz: NPD 2006 Record Year $12.5B
- NPD: Game industry reaches $12.5 billion in '06
- Madden hoists 2006 sales trophy
- 2006: THE GAMES PEOPLE BUY
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