Breaking News: Gamecube outsells the PS2!!

[Great Rumbler]

1. GC Tales of Symphonia -- 193,500 / 193,500
2. GBA Sword of Mana -- 153,000 / 153,000
3. PS2 World Soccer Winning Eleven 7 -- 53,400 / 900,000
4. PS2 Winning Post 6 -- 33,900 / 33,900
5. GC Square Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle -- 20,300 / 328,600
6. GBA Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire -- 19,400 / 170,247
7. GBA Super Mario Advance 4 -- 17,200 / 334,000
8. GC Kirby's Air Ride -- 16,500 / 278,500
9. PS2 Monster Farm 4 -- 15,600 / 143,400
10. PS2 On-the-spot Powerful Professional Baseball 10 -- 14,900 / 452,100


1. Gameboy Advance SP -- 42,600 / 1,575,400
2. GameCube -- 35,600 / 486,200
3. Playstation 2 -- 35,300 / 1,953,300
4.Game Boy Advance -- 12,100 / 1,031,800
5. Playstation -- 960 / 54,300
6. Xbox -- 650 / 72,500

Tales of Symphonia must be a really good game.

N-Philes

[OB1]

Woohoo! RPGs can sell very well on a post-SNES Nintendo console!

[EdenMaster]

But the best part is where the X-Box is! Outsold by the PS1!

[Nintendarse]

In other news, pigs fly across the Atlantic in the farthest pig-flight in recent memory. Our correspondents on location have reported that hell has indeed frozen over.

It's interesting that Tales of Symphonia caused a bigger sales spike than Final Fantasy: Chrystal Chronicles. Namco expects to sell 500,000 copies of Symphonia, and it's well on its way to that figure. I'd be really surprised if this were a lasting trend, but it's quite an event for Gamecube to outsell PS2 in a week. Hopefully, Nintendo's momentum will continue into the holiday season.

[OB1]

They don't have too many big holiday games coming out in Japan, though...

When does Baten Kaitos come out?

[Great Rumbler]

I think Baten Kaitos comes out near the end of this year in Japan.

[OB1]

I hope that sells well as well... haha... *ahem*

[A Black Falcon]

Wow... quite impressive. That's great... I hope it continues. :)

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, hopefully the sales don't drop off like they did with Crystal Chronicle.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah... but this game seems to be pretty popular, so it seems less likely... I hope. :)