Michael Pachter from Wedbush Morgan Securities and his humongous report on gaming have thrown up the top gaming brands in 2008 from all publishers.
Topping the list not surprisingly is ‘Guitar Hero‘ at a whopping $992 million revenue, helped on no doubt by the high price of the guitar that comes with the game. In second is ‘Mario Bros.’ quite a way behind at $761 million and in third is ‘Rock Band‘ at $662 million. With ‘Guitar Hero 5‘ and ‘The Beatles: Rock Band‘ both out this year, music games could well take the two top spots for 2009.
I don’t think too much will surprise you on the list but we thought ‘Warcraft‘ would have charted higher than 17 (even though it is old) and we’re more sad than surprised about Petz making number 30!
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- Guitar Hero (Activision Blizzard) $ 992 million
- Mario Brothers (Nintendo) $ 761 million
- Rock Band (Electronic Arts) $ 662 million
- Call Of Duty (Activision Blizzard) $ 446 million
- Wii Fit (Nintendo) $ 407 million
- Grand Theft Auto (Take-Two Interactive) $ 361 million
- Madden Football (Electronic Arts) $ 312 million
- Wii Play (Nintendo) $ 261 million
- LEGO (LucasArts) $ 224 million
- Star Wars (LucasArts) $ 180 million
- Sonic (Sega) $ 163 million
- Gears Of War (Microsoft) $ 146 million
- The Sims (Electronic Arts) $ 143 million
- Tom Clancy (Ubisoft) $ 130 million
- Pokemon (Nintendo) $ 119 million
- Need For Speed (Electronic Arts) $ 106 million
- Warcraft (Activision Blizzard) $ 104 million
- WWE (THQ) $ 103 million
- Fallout (Bethesda Softworks) $ 100 million
- NCAA Football (Electronic Arts) $ 94 million
- Tiger Woods (Electronic Arts) $ 89 million
- FIFA (Electronic Arts) $ 79 million
- Imagine (Ubisoft) $ 78 million
- Final Fantasy (Square Enix) $ 78 million
- Dance Dance Revolution (Konami) $ 78 million
- Metal Gear Solid (Konami) $ 77 million
- Fable (Microsoft) $ 77 million
- NBA Live (Electronic Arts) $ 71 million
- Mortal Kombat (Midway Games) $ 70 million
- Petz (Ubisoft) $ 70 million
Source: The NPD Group/Retail Track, Wedbush Morgan Securities (via Joystiq)
