See which titles hit it big stateside in a round-up of the All-Format, Handheld and GameCube charts for the month of July!

Despite July being slap-bang in the middle of the annual summer drought of big releases, there's still plenty of American game sales to pick over. The top five games sold on all-formats were:

Top Five Games of July
1. NCAA Football 2006 (PS2) - 610,803
2. NCAA Football 2006 (XBOX) - 332,478
3. Halo Map Pack (XBOX) - 196,952
4. Pokémon Emerald (GBA) - 131,537
5. Fantastic Four (PS2) - 100,5145

No GameCube titles even made the Top 20 (the highest-ranking being Fantastic 4 down at number 23). Pokémon Emerald gave a strong showing as the fourth most sold game of the month however, behind the Map Pack for Halo and the Xbox and PS2 versions of the latest NCAA Football update.

In the GameCube charts Fantastic Four reigned supreme, selling over twice as much as Nintendo's own Mario Party 6 which stole itself into the second place. The huge-selling Super Smash Bros. was still at third place, despite it being a launch title for the console. The full top five looked as follows:

GameCube's Top Five
1. Fantastic Four - 37,741
2. Mario Party 6 w/ Mic - 28,967
3. Super Smash Bros. Melee - 21,937
4. Madagascar - 17,507
5. Killer 7 - 16,350

Meanwhile in the handheld arena, the GBA's Pokémon Emerald outsold anything the DS or PSP had to offer, though the PSP blagged the second and third places in the portable-only chart:

Top Selling Portable Games
1. Pokémon Emerald (GBA) - 131,537
2. Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition (PSP) - 78,207
3. Coded Arms (PSP) - 74,014
4. Fantastic 4 (GBA) - 57,837
5. Kirby: Canvas Curse (DS) - 49,058

Overall in game sales, Nintendo was the #2 company for July 2005 (with a 10% market share), right behind third-party giants Electronic Arts (26.8% market share). As for the other two big hardware manufacturers - Sony was #6 (4.7% market share), while Microsoft was #7 (3.8% market share).