Most of you have probably already seen this, but in the interest of making this fresh, empty board appear to be alive and contain worthwhile topics to sift through:
It's that time of year...for Magic Box to compile all of its Dengeki numbers and flash them to the entire...three people that visit the site. But if you have any interest, here they are:
Rank_Name__System_Genre_Release Date__Amount Sold
1 Pocket Monster Sapphire Nintendo GBA RPG 11.21.02 1,391,612
2 Pocket Monster Ruby Nintendo GBA RPG 11.21.02 1,349,297
3 World Soccer Winning Eleven 6 Konami PS2 Sports 04.25.02 1,090,655
4 Onimusha 2 Capcom PS2 Action 03.07.02 949,325
5 Kingdom Hearts Square PS2 A.RPG 03.28.02 819,617
6 Shin Sangoku Musou 2 Mushouden Koei PS2 Action 08.29.02 741,185
7 Tales of Destiny 2 Namco PS2 RPG 11.28.02 736,129
8 Super Mario Sunshine Nintendo GC Action 7.19.02 655,136
9 Super Robot Taisen Impact Banpresto PS2 S.RPG 3.28.02 592,141
10 From TV Animation: One Piece Grand Battle 2 Bandai PSone Fighting 3.20.02 579,333
11 Mario Party 4 Nintendo GC Party 11.08.02 529,499
12 Virtua Fighter 4 Sega PS2 Fighting 01.31.02 521,705
13 SD Gundam G Generation Neo Bandai PS2 S.RPG 11.28.02 498,509
14 Let's Make a Pro Soccer Club 2002 Sega PS2 Simulation 03.07.02 496,943
15 Toruneko's Great Adventure 3: Mysterious Dungeons Enix PS2 RPG 10.31.02 494,224
16 Kirby Star: Fountain of Dream Nintendo GBA Action 10.25.02 462,184
17 Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 9 Konami PS2 Sports 07.18.02 431,291
18 My Summer 2: Chapter of Sea Adventure Sony PS2 Adventure 07.11.02 400,506
19 Legend of Zelda: Baton of Wind Nintendo GC A.RPG 12.13.02 396,932
20 Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles Bandai PS2 Action 08.01.02 383,903
Of interest: Pokemon is far from dead, selling a combined 2.74 million copies. Nintendo's traditionally popular properties did not fare as well. Released in late June, Mario sold big initially followed by an exponential drop in sales. Released on Dec. 13, Zelda has yet to establish legs. If it Zelda doesn't , it might finish its sales cycle below the million mark. This should concern the executives at Nintendo, considering the main Mario/Zelda titles on each system have sold well over 1 million copies (Majora' Mask sold about 650,000 copies, and the Capcom Zelda titles sold approximately 750,000 copies). Party software sells well, as Mario Party 4 looks to break Mario Party 3's sales of 615,507. Looking at the continued momentum of the title through the holidays, it seems to be riding a curve that will put it well beyond 650,000.
You know the deal. I'll list several video game categories for the year 2002 and you send your choices to my e-mail address: prancetron2000@yahoo.com .
Just copy and paste the categories onto your e-mail and write in your answers next to them. If you have questions about which games fall into which genres, etc., post them, right here. If you want to add more categories, post them in this forum before you vote. I'll post the results once I get enough votes in. The deadline will be, say, January 12th or around there. Voting begins this saturday.
And another thing, I'm not sure if I should add PC categories. What do you guys think?
The Usual Categories:
Best Action Game (i.e. Splinter Cell)
Best Adventure Game (i.e. Metroid Prime)
Best RPG
Best Racing Game
Best Fighting Game
Best Action-sports Game
Best Sports Game
Best Simulation Game
Best Platformer
Best First-person Shooter (note: Metroid Prime is not a FPS)
Best Strategy Game
Best Online Game
Best PC Game
Best PlayStation 2 Game
Best Gamecube Game
Best X-Box Game
Best Gameboy Advance Game
Best Overall Game
The Other Categories:
Best Graphics
Best Original Soundtrack
Best Soundtrack
Best Sound Effects
Best Art Direction
Best Sequel
Best Commercial
Biggest Headline
Best Hype Job
Most Underrated Game
Teh funney categories:
Best Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Game
Best Army Men Game
Best Stupid Video Game Rep Quote
Best rumor that never happened
Best Shiggy pic
Best Smilie
Edit by DJ: Sorry OB1, but if you are going to rate all games, you can't exclude PC games. I added 3 more catagories, one for PC games.
Oh, and is Metroid Prime in first person? Do you shoot? Then, by sheer logic, it IS a first person shooter. Of course, with that logic then it's also an RPG, since you play a game in a role, but hey I'm just saying is all :D. Yes, I would call Metroid Prime an Adventure. However, unlike Miyamoto, when a game series has like 5 upgrades dedicated to jumping, including a jump move that is an actual attack, and when you do more jumping than fighting in the game, the Metroid series IS a jumping game series! I'm sorry, but it is. Metroid Prime is more shooty than jumpy, but that's fine because MP rocks anway. Okay, enough posting inside someone else's message.
I don't believe it for a second, but here's the scoop from Nintendojo:
Quote:Portable GameCube In 2003? Yes Please!
Yahoo! News has reported various speculation regarding what may be coming for 2003 as early as May during the E3 in Los Angeles, California.
While some believe that Microsoft may unveil plans for "Xbox Next" and Sony may unveil some information on the long awaited PlayStation 3, Envisioneering analyst Richard Doherty predicts a portable version of Nintendo's next generation console, the GameCube.
"A portable GameCube device would bring next-generation graphics to the portable market -- a market dominated by Nintendo with no competition from Sony or Microsoft," Doherty said.
While none of this has been confirmed, it does show the many possibilities for Nintendo fans in the extremely near future. We'll have more details once they become available. (als)
We were talking about this yesterday... I don't remember exactly what was said, but I said something like how I was surprised how much I liked Skies of Arcadia despite its annoying random combat... but that even so, if it'd used Chrono Trigger's system of showing enemies it would have been even better.
Oh, and could someone explain why they think that Golden Sun has more random battles than FF6?
