Rank / Platform / Title / Month Sales / Total Sales

1. PS2 NCAA Football 2004 -- 495,093 / 495,093
2. Xbox Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic -- 299,597 / 299,597
3. Xbox NCAA Football 2004 -- 128,301 / 128,301
4. GBA Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II -- 118,175 / 215,449
5. GBA Donkey Kong Country -- 97,863 / 253,375
6. GBA Pokémon Ruby -- 95,207 / 1,240,400
7. PS2 Grand Theft Auto III -- 93,011 / 4,800,871
8. GBA Pokémon Sapphire -- 88,315 / 1,144,599
9. GBA Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition -- 66,955 / 370,580
10. PS2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City -- 66,384 / 5,288,319
11. PS2 NBA Street Vol. 2 -- 61,134 / 675,688
12. GCN Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour -- 60,684 / 60,684
13. PS2 Enter the Matrix -- 60,263 / 870,770
14. PS2 Midnight Club II -- 56,896 / 418,962
15. GBA Finding Nemo -- 54,036 / 169,646
16. GBA Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising -- 53,950 / 112,116
17. GCN The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker -- 52,599 / 1,195,441
18. PS2 Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness -- 50,883 / 207,869
19. GBA Sonic Advance 2 -- 49,998 / N/A
20. GCN Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut -- 48,398 / 109,200

Rank / Title / Month Sales / Revenue

1. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour -- 60,684 / $2,981,872
2. Wario World -- 40,337 / $2,016,238
3. Sonic Adventure DX -- 48,398 / $1,926,197
4. Zelda: The Wind Waker -- 52,599 / $1,796,685
5. Super Smash Bros. Melee -- 43,033 / $1,291,413
6. NCAA Football 2004 -- 21,214 / $1,049,537
7. Mario Party 4 -- 29,045 / $974,088
8. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle -- 23,798 / $706,516
9. Mega Man Network Transmission -- 16,862 / $672,272
10. Enter The Matrix -- 12,811 / $624,371

Platform / Month Sales / Total U.S. Userbase

Game Boy Advance -- 488,671 / 15,269,930
Playstation 2 -- 312,992 / 18,485,673
Xbox -- 136,841 / 5,682,847
GameCube -- 126,561 / 4,429,930


The GBA seems to be doing very good, but the hardware sales do take into account both the GBA and the SP.

N-Philes

I was hoping that it was just a fluke, but it isn't...Adult Swim has stricken Lupin III from it's 1:30 time slot. It is a horrible, horrible deed...and rest assured that as we speak, the 7th Light Goron Infantry is rushing to avenge Lupin upon the network execs. HOWEVER, in the meantime my question is to anyone who'd know:

Is Lupin on any other network at any other time, or shall I never again see it...?


---Yours respectfully,

Mnsr. Darunia, le Comte d'Hyrule, Esq.

I recently, and by recently I mean a few days ago, started reading comic books again. I don't think I was ever a really big fan of comic books, but anyway I found a particularly good comic book mini-series. It's called "Formerly Known As The Justice League" and it's basically a parody of the Justice League comics and it's even made by Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis who did some of the original Justice League comics. It's really funny, everyone should buy it.

Because one hundred just isn't enough!!

It's been a while since we've done a thread like this so I decided it was time to revive it, and besides we need to get a REALLY long thread going!

1000 - The Subway commercials.

It's the age old question: Bacon or shoes?

I say shoes because you can wear them on your feet OR eat them! They're so useful!

Ah yes, delicous roasted baby... Yum...

YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! According to ign ps2's latest rumors article, Square-Enix is planning on releasing one more PS1 game and it very well might be compilation disc with Final Fantasy 3 and SD 3!!

Quote:Final Fantasy III and Seiken Densetsu 3 on PS one?

Early this summer at Square-Enix's second financial results announcement, the mammoth RPG company made public its intent to create one last PlayStation game.

IGN has consistently hammered away at Square with questions about this game, and though no information has come from Square-Enix itself, we have gathered enough information from sources close to the company about what it very well could be.

Additionally, we believe that the final game is a compilation disc of these two games, which will include Final Fantasy III and Seiken Densetsu 3 because of these two reasons: These are the only two games of both series not released in the US and they are the only two games not to be remade since their original publication.

IGNMatt says in N-Query: "Well, Nintendo is trying, even if we don't always see it. Things are happening behind the scenes for the future. And it's not as if GameCube is being entirely neglected. At the end of September, the company will drop the price of the console to $99 smackers, which is I think a pretty significant reduction. Meanwhile, there are games like F-Zero GX, Soul Calibur II and Viewtiful Joe, not to mention Rogue Squadron, Mario Kart, Pikmin II and Metal Gear Solid, all just around the corner. I would call that a very strong lineup."

$99 seems to be a great price point to reach a mainstream audience during the holiday season. I know I'll have my hands full with Gamecube goodness.

Instead Nintendo is going to start using regular DVD cases! From Cube-Europe:

Quote:Nintendo is to change the packaging of Game Boy Advance games to DVD packages.

DVD packages are used for all three home consoles and PC games and are now to be used for Game Boy Advance games.

The packaging will hit Europe and America by Christmas while a study is going on in Japan to see if they should be used there.

The packaging is not set to change the prices of games.

According to Spong, the new packaging will hit shelves in Europe and the US in time for this Christmas, with a feasibility study currently underway in Japan.

We will have more on this when or if it is announced officialy.



Source: Spong

From N-Philes:

Quote:The Asahi Japanese newspaper reports that Nintendo is drawing up a game plan to gain ground on archrival Sony. Part of the plan includes selling game consoles in China to make up for disappointing sales globally. They expect to push into China by the end of the year. Right now they are still formulating which products they intend to sell there. Satoru Iwata says Nintendo will take a new approach in China instead of marketing its current lineup as is. They say this is necessary due to the difference in income standards between Japan and China, as well as the rampant piracy.

Some new details on the Club Nintendo are purchasers must first register on the Internet. They will use the information supplied to analyze its customer base and consumer preferences. (Wow, marketing techniques.) "We want to make use of the data as a new marketing tool," Iwata said. Consumers can amass a certain amount of points that entitle them to Nintendo goods such as new game demos.

"Investors became so overly pessimistic about our future growth potential that Nintendo's share price plummeted,'' Iwata said. In the past, Nintendo was able to maintain its decisive lead in the video game industry just by promoting new game titles via TV commercials targeted at the general public. But traditional marketing methods, which had been effective since the introduction of the company's blockbuster Family Computer models in 1983, no longer work, say company officials.

Iwata said the video game market is becoming saturated and Nintendo can no longer rest easy. That sense of crisis is a main factor behind the decision to launch the new point system, company officials said. Sony, meanwhile, is attempting to transform its game consoles into digital appliances by fusing them with the company's highly rated audio-visual equipment. Nintendo has refused to follow suit, maintaining instead that its priority is to offer entertaining game titles that anybody can readily enjoy.

As the critical year-end shopping season approaches, Nintendo plans to roll out new titles to help it regain its competitive edge and market share. He added that the company plans to announce a successor to its current generation of consoles next spring.


Posted by Ethan Pearson, Founder, Director
Source: Asahi Shimbun