The Most Valuable Brands In 2009

Research company, Millward Brown has ranked the most valuable brands for 2009 in its annual report, titled ‘Brandz Top 100: Most Valuable Brands 2009′. Catchy.

In the world’s largest study of consumers and business-to-business users, Google came out top overall with a worth of $100 billion, followed by Microsoft with $76.2 billion. Nintendo is at number 32 with $18.2 billion, however as far as popular gaming brands are concerned the DS and Wii lead the pack with 9,659 and 8,256 million dollars of value respectively.

For the full breakdown of top 9 console brand value, hit the link.

Popular Gaming Brands — Brand Value in Millions of Dollars

1. Nintendo DS — 9,659
2. Nintendo Wii — 8,256
3. Microsoft Xbox 360 — 4,681
4. Sony PlayStation 3 — 341
5. Microsoft Xbox — 313
6. Nintendo Game Boy — 222
7. Sony PSP — 144
8. Sony PlayStation 2 — 119
9. Nintendo GameCube — 96

Interesting to see the Gameboy above the PSP and the original Xbox only slightly trailing the PS3!

Source: Millward Brown Optimor (Pdf) via Videogamesblogger