NPD has released sales info on the top ten titles for last year. They are:<\/p>\n
1. World of Warcraft<\/em> All data included Collector’s Editions as part of the total for a single title.<\/p>\n The list has the usual suspects, with the exception of Empire at War<\/em>. Sure, it’s Star Wars, but did anyone expect it to beat out Oblivion<\/em> and three Sims<\/em> expansions? It’s also interesting that two of the titles (Age of Empires 3<\/em> and Civ 4<\/em>) were released in late 2005, and so any holiday boost from their initial release would have been counted in that year. World of Warcraft<\/em> defies any attempt at rational analysis and taunts me in my sleep.<\/p>\n The Sims<\/em> should have its own list somewhere else, because I’d love to know what the next ten games were. Once you get past the legions of fans who want every Sims expansion, a wider view of the industry’s top sellers would be nice. For example, were any “new” games in the top 20? All the top ten are franchise or license games – original in their own way, but not flashes of originality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NPD has released sales info on the top ten titles for last year. They are: 1. World of Warcraft 2. The Sims 2 3. The Sims 2 Open for Business Expansion 4. Star Wars: Empire at War 5. The Sims 2 Pets Expansion 6. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 7. Age of Empires III 8. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-8M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n 2. The Sims 2<\/em>
\n 3. The Sims 2 Open for Business Expansion<\/em>
\n 4. Star Wars: Empire at War<\/em>
\n 5. The Sims 2 Pets Expansion<\/em>
\n 6. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion<\/em>
\n 7. Age of Empires III<\/em>
\n 8. The Sims 2 Family Fun Stuff Expansion<\/em>
\n 9. Civilization IV<\/em>
\n 10. The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion<\/em><\/p>\n