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Taken from cube-europe.com

Super Mario Sunshine launches at record pace, and boosts hardware sales!

The world's favorite plumber has returned with a bang! During its first 10 days of availability, Super Mario Sunshine for Nintendo GameCube is already a smash hit, selling through more than 350,000 games. This is a total not achieved by any competitor, including Xbox's popular Halo or Playstation 2's Grand Theft Auto 3 until a month or more on store shelves.

The immediate popularity of Super Mario Sunshine, which chronicles the chubby plumber's attempts to clean up a lush tropical island, is also creating a significant demand for its host system. During its first week, Nintendo's retail partners cited jumps in Nintendo GameCube hardware sales averaging 50 percent, with some accounts reporting that system sales had more than doubled.

"This launch is historic - promising to break longstanding records," says Peter MacDougall, executive vice president, sales and marketing, Nintendo of America Inc. "So far, sales rates for Super Mario Sunshine are running 36 percent ahead of even Super Mario 64 six years ago-and that game went on to sell more than 10 million units worldwide."

Lick the balls Sony and Microsoft.

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Does every topic about games these days have to turn into a dumb a$s
> console war?
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Erm... Did you not say "Lick the balls Sony and Microsoft."?

Ah, I too was worried about Perfect Dark going to the xbox.

So I bought an Xbox. Worry gone!

Or†ega wrote:
> I suppose the high sales are becasue there are less must have games on
> the GameCube compared with the Xbox/PS2.
>

That was a joke right? The PS2 especcialy has a pitiful Christmas line up...

Oh dear Semawatsit, go stand in the corner and think about how stupid you are.

Does every topic about games these days have to turn into a dumb a$s console war?

MONKEY!

im worried bout MS buying rare. would be the worst day in my life if that became definate. i just hope desperatly that Rare will remain 100% nintendo faithfull. Perfect Dark Zero on the Xbox is unimaginable. it would totally ruin the game with the xboxs crapyness.

:|

I love console wars.
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I suppose the high sales are becasue there are less must have games on the GameCube compared with the Xbox/PS2.

Please, dont take that as a pop at the Cube. I do own a GC afterall.

Great news for nintendo but i also belive it could be the same with halo 2 if they shift enought boxes.

Never underestimnate the power (and size!) of.... Mario! :D

Nice one Nintendo, wonder what the European figures will be like??
Surely they'll break the 1,000,000 units mark!!??