GBA outsells PS2, but Xbox outsells GC + First half 2004 software sales

[Great Rumbler]

According to NPD, the marketing information provider, the whole video games sales in America dropped 2.5% during the first six months of 2004, compared to the same previous year period. Although both console hardware and portable software had an increased drop (17% and 12% respectively), software and accessories saw a raise in terms of sales.

While hardware sales were down, the situation could have been worse. Fortunately Microsoft's XBOX and Sony's Playstation 2 price drop, helped in the last two months of the first quarter. Furthermore, the top-10 console games for the first half of 2004 according to NPD were:

1. Fight Night 2004 (PS2) - EA
2. NBA Ballers (PS2) - Midway
3. MVP Baseball 2004 (PS2) - EA
4. Fight Night 2004 (Xbox) - EA
5. Pokemon Colosseum (GC) - Nintendo
6. Halo (Xbox) - Microsoft
7. Red Dead Revolver (PS2) - Take-Two
8. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (Xbox) - Ubisoft
9. Shrek 2 (PS2) - Activision
10. Spider-Man 2 (PS2) - Activision
Update

The Game Boy Advance sold the most units last month in America, however the GameCube sold the least.

No. Console June Sales May Sales
1 Game Boy Advance 521.000 NC
2 PlayStation 2 427.000 253.454
3 Xbox 262.000 216.997
4 GameCube 109.000 77.827

Good to see the GBA selling so well, but it's dissapointing that not that many people are buying GCs.

I gotta ask one thing. Why in the world are people still buying Halo?! It's about 3 years old and it's not even really that great! Why aren't people buying Metroid Prime?! Craziness. *has lost all faith in humanities ability, as a whole, to recognize good games*

Cube-Europe

[Geno]

Yay GBA!

[A Black Falcon]

The problem isn't that you lost faith (in people's abilities to see good games), it's that you had it to begin with... :)

Anyway, a lot of people really love Halo and that feeling gets a lot of people who buy X-Boxes to get the thing. Nothing else on the X-Box has anywhere near that level of buzz...

As for the Cube, not that surprised given the near-total lack of releases in the summer.

[Geno]

I'm actually glad I got a Gamecube so late. Video game shopping suddenly became fun again for a while. The fun has worn out though. I'm just waiting for San Andreas on the PS2 now.

[Dark Lord Neo]

I bought Halo, cause I sort of wanted it, and Halo with Brute Force was cheaper than just Halo at the Wal Mart I was in so it seemed like a good idea. I also already had metroid prime

[Dark Jaguar]

Well, Fable is getting a pretty huge buzz. People who have never played RPGs before, casual gamers who really only play FPS games mostly, are getting incredibly hyped about Fable.

[Private Hudson]

So how come no-one who isn't a regular on internet forums has ever heard of Fable?

I know a LOT of regular videogame players who don't know what the hell Fable is. They never even picked the box up when we went into EB recently (it was in the coming soon section. :))

And when XBox is still selling consoles, and everyone who owns an XBox is buying Halo, then Halo will remain in the charts.

Dark Lord Neo: You still should have bought Halo on it's own. Brute Force is a horrible horrible game.. :confused2

[Geno]

I don't have an XBox, and I'm saving my money for a new computer, a car, and college. That's gonna take a while with $6 an hour. So... I'll just have to miss out. I'm not that distraught over not owning an XBox though.

[A Black Falcon]

I'd like to have an X-Box... there are some good games on it. But I can't really support any more platforms, so oh well... I'll live. Though it would be nice to have console games to play online as well (as PC)...

[Geno]

Yeah, I'm running out of room for systems too. I just barely managed to squeeze my Gamecube in, and that's because it's so small. I also had to plug in the little red, white, and yellow plugs, whereas I usually buy a cable and hook up the television cord through the cable, which feeds into the TV.

[A Black Falcon]

On that subject, N64, NGC, and SNES are easy. All three use the same plug to attach to the TV so all you have to do is switch the thing that plugs into the back of the system... :)

But what I meant was that I can't really afford to support any more systems. I've got NGC, PC, GBA, N64...

[Geno]

I've got SNES, N64, NGC, PS2, GBC, and GBA.

[Great Rumbler]

That's weak. I've got SNES, PS2, Xbox, and Saturn plugged up in just my room. In the rest of the house are N64 [which is not plugged up], GC, GBA/GBASP, Dreamcast, NES, Genesis with Master System converter, JVC X'Eye [Genesis/Sega CD hybrid], Atari 2600 six-switch w/ wood panel, Atari Jaguar, Sega Gamegear, and the PC on which I am typing.

[A Black Falcon]

... I don't have that, but our family does have 8 PCs... and I also of course have 2 GBs and GBC. Though the GBC's screen broke a few weeks ago... :(

[Great Rumbler]

Also I have a 3DO.

[OB1]

...

[Geno]

My brother has a PSX and a PS2, my sister (who doesn't live here) has a Genesis and an XBox, and we used to have an NES until it stopped working and a GBP until it was stolen.

[Great Rumbler]

...

Seriously.

Btw, did you know that there's a website out there that allows you to download every game made for the 3DO for free? That's where I got all my 3DO games.

[OB1]

cool

[Great Rumbler]

Indeed.

[EdenMaster]

Damn GR, that's quite a collection.

I've got a GameCube, PS2, SNES, NES, Genesis, and GBA SP.

Geno, I think having a PS2 kind of negates having a PS1, seeing as how you'd probably never need to the PSX anymore. That's just my opinion though. Seems to me that if you have a PS2, I'd see no reason not to sell the PS1.

[A Black Falcon]

So, how does one fix a broken GBC screen... buy a new one from Nintendo? I guess I'll just not be able to play Bionic Commando anymore... :(

[Great Rumbler]

You'll probably just have to look around for a used one somewhere.

[Dark Jaguar]

Just like how there are a handful of GB and GBC games that don't work with the GBA, there are a handful of PS1 games that don't work with the PS2. I myself only have ONE of these games. It WORKS, but this game (Legend of Legaia) has a few visual effects that the PS2 can't emulate fast enough, so the battles can drag on when doing certain things becase of that. Hence, I keep the PS1 just for that.

Besides that, having a backup system when you have a lot of people over and you end up having to use both systems for whatever reason is always nice.

[bountyhunter]

Wow, I just remembered about this place and in the spirit of curiosity I tried logging in using my old 1999-2002 password and I'm starting to regret I did, now I'm going to fall into the deep groove of replying to this forum all over again..

Murder me now oh mercifull one.

It looks like the DS might have a fighting chance over all as nintendo's grasp on the handheld market dominates the N-gage still, boy was that system a joke.

[Great Rumbler]

I had a PS1 before, but it died after I plugged a fault controller into it. Just for reference the controller was faulty because the cord had come apart and some of the wires were cut. I think the only thing wrong with the console is that it needs a new controller port, but I've never felt the need to get it replaced.

[A Black Falcon]

Just like how there are a handful of GB and GBC games that don't work with the GBA, there are a handful of PS1 games that don't work with the PS2. I myself only have ONE of these games. It WORKS, but this game (Legend of Legaia) has a few visual effects that the PS2 can't emulate fast enough, so the battles can drag on when doing certain things becase of that. Hence, I keep the PS1 just for that.

As I've said before, Bionic Commando: Elite Forces works... if you avoid the overhead missions. They cannot be finished and crash the game. That's quite annoying, given how you enter them on the trucks on the overworld which are tough to avoid at times, and how those missions are your only source of extra lives... not good. Plus you can't get the rank-up suits/hidden missions because there are unavoidable topdown missions in front of those. Not good. I've heard some people can't run it correctly on GBCs either, I think, but mine worked fine on one... obviously it shipped with a irritating bug. Not good when it's one of your favorite GBC games.

Which was fine until three weeks ago when my GBC's screen broke. Now it's got this big permanant discoloration on the screen and displays nothing. The sound still works fine, though... you can hear the game playing. :)

[Great Rumbler]

Wow, I just remembered about this place and in the spirit of curiosity I tried logging in using my old 1999-2002 password and I'm starting to regret I did, now I'm going to fall into the deep groove of replying to this forum all over again..

TC's like a black hole! Once it has you in it's grasp you'll never escape! Well, except as little particles or whatever...that's what Stephen Hawking said, anyway.

[A Black Falcon]

You can try to get away, think you've gotten away... but you never really will... bwahaha!

[Great Rumbler]

Once you go Tendocity you don't go...uh...back! Yeah!

[A Black Falcon]

Got it a bit wrong there, GR? :)

[Great Rumbler]

Let's see you think of something that rhymes with "city" that will fit in that context! It can't be done!!

[Geno]

The PSX belongs to my brother, so it's up to him whether or not he wants to sell the PSX. I probably would've. (Except that I have a Gameshark that'll only work on PSX. I never use it though. I prefer playing games legitimately.)

[bountyhunter]

You're telling me there's a legitimate way of playing the dam in goldeneye multiplayer? damn what have I been doing half this time cheating using my Gameshark when I could have worked hard to achieve it ^_^

And when pokemon yellow came out I needed to get mew.. so gameshark came in and I don't know why but my pikachu knew surf my mewtwo was like five times stronger then it should have been and you get the point. I think in one hand you have people wanting to use them for good then the other hand has you doing silly things like letting you play as that megamech in armoredcore for mutliplayer, that was stupid and insane but fun while it lasted...

[Dark Lord Neo]

Dark Lord Neo: You still should have bought Halo on it's own. Brute Force is a horrible horrible game.. :confused2

Well technically I got payed to get Brute Force, it was $2 cheaper to get Halo with Brute Force than to buy just Halo.

I read the NPD sales reports for the first 6 months of the year in Canada this morning. X-Box was on top :-(. Microsoft of Canada also stated that Canada is there best market for X-Box on a per capita basis.

[Great Rumbler]

Microsoft of Canada also stated that Canada is there best market for X-Box on a per capita basis.

1 in 3 eskimos owns an Xbox according to a recent report. The report goes on to state that only 1 in 5 eskimos even has electricity. Experts are baffled by this phenominon. Eskimo spokepersons say they find ice televisions just as good as basic cable, 50 channels and still nothing good to watch.

[Dark Lord Neo]

1 in 3 eskimos owns an Xbox according to a recent report. The report goes on to state that only 1 in 5 eskimos even has electricity. Experts are baffled by this phenominon. Eskimo spokepersons say they find ice televisions just as good as basic cable, 50 channels and still nothing good to watch.

But those numbers don't matter because there are no Eskimo's in Canada, except for the 30 some that are on the Edmonton Eskimo's football team. So only 1 in 5 pro football players in Canada have electricity?

[Great Rumbler]

No eskimos in Canada?! What's the world coming to?!

[A Black Falcon]

They are Inuits, GR. :)

[Great Rumbler]

Oh, well excuse me for being racial insensitive!

Btw, thanks, guys, for ruining my joke! I worked on that for like a whole minute!

[Geno]

Whoa... bountyhunter posted. That's a rarity.

Yeah, I used Gameshark to catch Mew and other Pokémon that I couldn't get without trading/winning a stupid contest. I don't cheat like other people do, such as making my characters invincible or boosting my characters to Level 99 less than halfway through the game.

[Dark Lord Neo]

I got Mew from Nintendo at one of those Pokemon things.
I got surfing Pikachu from Pokemon Stadium

[Dark Jaguar]

Not ALL the people we call Eskimos are Inuits. So, what word ARE we supposed to use to refer to all those tribes as a whole, or do you expect us to learn ALL the tribe's names? No thanks. I'll just call them all eskimos.

[A Black Falcon]

Well, don't tell them that because they consider that term offensive...

[OB1]

That's because Eskimo means "meat eater" or something like that. Just call them "Native Canadians" or something. :D

[Great Rumbler]

I'll just call them eskimos.

[OB1]

Even though it's a derogatory term?

[Great Rumbler]

I'll just feign ignorance.

[OB1]

Good plan.

[Great Rumbler]

*high five*