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"Last weeks Japanease sales figures....oh Daddy!!!"

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

When will the Japanese learn that Pokemon was a *craze* and crazes are supposed to burn themselves out after a couple of months. Very silly.

Mwuah, mwuaahahahaa! Ninty rule.

A pity for the poor X-box, as it's a fine machine. Go and buy one you cretins.

Belldandy wrote:


> Plus you'll find Cube Europe's figures showing negatives, when
> compared to that sites, on GBA, Gamecube, and out by about a million
> for psone sales. Oh, and theyre figure for Xbox is out by about 20 000
> as well.

Just realised, those figures aren't how many units have sold, they're actually estimations of the yearly sales quota for each console. So that's why they say different...

Considering those figures you showed are old and where from the 17th me thinks i'll go with Cube-Europe seeing as they're one of the biggest European computer sites on the net.

Anyway as you said, let's enjoy the games.

Belldandy wrote:

> So I don't find the figures from Cube Europe all that reliable...
>
> ~~Belldandy~~

You wouldn't though would you?

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Belldandy, those stats are from two weeks ago...

Or Cube Europe engages in creative writing - my stats show;

Xbox total sales (as of two weeks ago, even though the 17th Nov - 28th Nov isnt) 294858.

Whereas Cube Europe's say 273600. Seeing as negative sales are not possible, then one of the two figures is wrong, and my money is on the Nintendo source...

Plus you'll find Cube Europe's figures showing negatives, when compared to that sites, on GBA, Gamecube, and out by about a million for psone sales. Oh, and theyre figure for Xbox is out by about 20 000 as well.

So I don't find the figures from Cube Europe all that reliable...

~~Belldandy~~

Strafex wrote:
> Not in Europe.
>
> Ever since that Sega deal, the Xbox has overtaken.

Oh, yeah, sorry.

Belldandy, those stats are from two weeks ago...

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Simple fact is the GC is outselling the XBOX regardless of the offer
> that MS put together.

Not in Europe.

Ever since that Sega deal, the Xbox has overtaken.