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Taken from cube-europe.com

Brace yourself... The GameCube hardware sales have doubled last week to an amazing number of 37.400 !! That is only one thousand less than the total PS2s sold that same week. Oh and the Xbox is on the 4th spot with only 1.900 units sold.

Not only are the hardware sales thriving in Japan, also the Nintendo software titles are selling like hot cakes! The top 5 of all the software being sold in Japan are games for either the GBA or the GCN.

New in the charts is Biohazard 0 of which almost 200k copies have been sold in just a couple of days.

Hardware:

1. GameBoy Advance - 150,800 (2,313,400)
2. PlayStation 2 - 38,400 (3,101,500)
3. GameCube - 37,400 (923,400)
4. XBox - 1,900 (273,600)
5. PS One - 1,800 (205,900)
6. WonderSwan Crystal - 1,300 (102,500)

Software:

1. Pocket Monsters Sapphire (Nintendo/GBA) - 549,300
2. Pocket Monsters Ruby (Nintendo/GBA) - 543,900
3. Biohazard 0 (Capcom/GC) - 194,900
4. Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation (Banpresto/GBA) - 147,300
5. Mario Party 4 (Nintendo/GC) - 31,600 (291,700)
6. Taiko no Tatsujin (Namco/PS2) - 27,800 128,700
7. Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter (Capcom/PS2) - 23,100 (106,800)
8. Pop n' Music 7 (Konami/PS2) - 20,500
9. DQ Characters: Torneko no Daiboiken 3 (Enix/PS2) - 19,500 (445,600)
10. Zero 4 Champ Series: Drift Champ (Hudson/PS2) - 18,700

I guess Nintendo are doing something right and not a single price cut or console bundle in site. Imagine what the sales figures will be like when a big game like Zelda or Pokemon was release on Gamecube.

150,000 GBA's sold quite literally taketh the piece really.

Xbox seems to be making a come back too, for one week it's actually managed to outsell the PS1 :D

phife????? is it based in scotland???

Cube Europe ARE reliable. They're not biased in favour of the GameCube, as they have divisions for X-Box and PS2, too. Shove that in your phife and smoke it!

Belldandy wrote:

> Oh so now its estimates then ? Ooookay......estimates are always
> reliable aren't they ? Not. And yes *Not* is so Waynes World.

When I say it's an estimate I mean the second number in brackets is an estimate, the first one's the real figure of that weeks sales.

Refute it all you want.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> We're reading the data wrong, I can't say for the other site but I
> know for a fact that the number on the end of Cube-Europes figures are
> rough estimations of the yearly quota for each console.

Oh so now its estimates then ? Ooookay......estimates are always reliable aren't they ? Not. And yes *Not* is so Waynes World.

> That's why it seemingly reads stupidly.

I was going to suggest another reason...

~~Belldandy~~

Silent85 wrote:
> just had to put this I am ever so sorry couldn't help meself.

What are talking about?

STOP SPAMMING

just had to put this I am ever so sorry couldn't help meself.

We're reading the data wrong, I can't say for the other site but I know for a fact that the number on the end of Cube-Europes figures are rough estimations of the yearly quota for each console.

That's why it seemingly reads stupidly.

Okay, I've done similar in the Ninty forum, but I'll bore some more people here as I wait to see if Xbox live does go on sale early....

Righty ho; Cube-Europes stats, supposedly up to date yes ?

1. GameBoy Advance - 150,800 (2,313,400)
2. PlayStation 2 - 38,400 (3,101,500)
3. GameCube - 37,400 (923,400)
4. XBox - 1,900 (273,600)
5. PS One - 1,800 (205,900)
6. WonderSwan Crystal - 1,300 (102,500)

Now for another set, from an independent site;

GameBoy Advance 53,271 (2,199,820)
PlayStation 2 30,860 (3,141,650)
GameCube 15,965 (760,593)
SwanCrystal 2,198 (106,123)
PSone 2,098 (1222,725)
Xbox 1,362 (294,858)
GameBoy Color 574 (98,753)

Source http://mb.vgdirectory.com/topten.htm Week end 17th Nov

Right, calculators out. Bearing in mind the second set of data is at least a week behind Cube Europes in term os freshness, explain this someone from the Nintendo forums;

*Gameboy Advance total sales from Cube Europe are up by 113580 compared to week end 17th Nov total sales, not 150 000 odd....

*Cube Europe says 923400 GC's have been sold, but at the end of 17th Nov only 760593 had been, so either 162000 Gc's were sold in under 2 weeks (unlikely looking at Cube Europes figures) or someone is telling porkys.

*Cube Europe says Xbox sales are 273600, but info nearly two week older shows them at 294858, so can anyone explain how you do negative sales to the tune of about 20 000 ?

*Psone total sales in Cube europes data says 205900 !!! Er yeah guys, you missed about a million from there eh ?

OR for anyone who skipped that lot, the data from Cube Europe is inconsistent in all but one fact, Sony is still in front.

~~Belldandy~~

Sales figures never show what the best console is, it's just good to see your console of preference suceeding.

If mentioned in the Nintendo forum - most definatly. ;-)