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Darc Requiem · « **Reply #50 on:** April 29, 2003, 03:28:33 PM »

Hmm...interesting. Judging by the software sales from last month it appears that the GC may have surpassed the X-box in sales for the month. I may be wrong but the top 10 GC games outsold the top 10 X-box games. Any word on the hardware sales for March?

Darc Requiem

Byron · « **Reply #51 on:** April 29, 2003, 04:31:41 PM »

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2654419

Nope GC did not beat XBox in hardware numbers.

It says for the month of March PS2 took 37.8% of the market, XBox 14.7% and GC 10.7%

FFantasyFX · « **Reply #52 on:** April 29, 2003, 07:20:41 PM »

Actually Byron, I'm pretty sure that Reuters is talking about cumulative installed base in that paragraph, not sales for the month. I might be wrong though.

Wrx_Boi · « **Reply #53 on:** April 29, 2003, 09:17:56 PM »

OMg if gamecube outsold xbox for the month of march in North America im gonna chuck a party.

ink · « **Reply #54 on:** April 29, 2003, 10:28:58 PM »

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Originally posted by: FFantasyFX
Actually Byron, I'm pretty sure that Reuters is talking about cumulative installed base in that paragraph, not sales for the month. I might be wrong though.

That's the way I read it as well, and the numbers fit that way too.

Mario · « **Reply #55 on:** April 30, 2003, 01:47:34 AM »

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Aussiedude · « **Reply #56 on:** April 30, 2003, 02:15:57 AM »

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Originally posted by: Wrx_Boi
OMg if gamecube outsold xbox for the month of march in North America im gonna chuck a party.

BETTER START PARTYING! COZ the CUBE DID BEAT XBOX IN MARCH!

USA Hardware Sales for past Month (March): 7,174,898
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Nintendo: 3,106,148 | 43.2%
Gamecube: 1,027,576 | 14.3%
Game Boy Advance: 2,078,572 | 28.9%

Sony Playstation 2: 3,587,938 | 50%

Microsoft Xbox: 480,812 | 6.8%

USA Monthly Multiformat Software sales for March
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RANK TITLE UNITS
1 GCN ZELDA:WIND WAKER 826,352
2 GBA POKEMON RUBY 652,595
3 GBA POKEMON SAPPHIRE 585,098
4 PS2 TENCHU 3:WRATH 164,282
5 PS2 THE GETAWAY 139,796
6 PS2 DEF JAM VENDETTA 135,162
7 PS2 GTA:VICE 131,817
8 PS2 ************************ EPISODE 1 122,969
9 PS2 YU-GI-OH! DUELISTS 118,108
10 PS2 MVP BASEBALL 2003 114,016

USA March 2003 Market Share Rankings (Top 30 Companies)
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Total 439,149,269 $
Company Projected $'s Market Share
1 NINTENDO OF AMERICA 101,484,000 $ 23.1%
2 ELECTRONIC ARTS 62,340,160 $ 14.2%
3 SONY 34,604,740 $ 7.9%
4 KONAMI OF AMERICA 24,172,310 $ 5.5%
5 ACTIVISION 20,968,160 $ 4.8%
6 THQ 20,538,180 $ 4.7%
7 INFOGRAMES 16,831,690 $ 3.8%
8 TAKE 2 INTERACTIVE 15,938,880 $ 3.6%
9 NAMCO 15,776,160 $ 3.6%
10 UBISOFT 15,673,330 $ 3.6%
11 SEGA OF AMERICA 14,923,200 $ 3.4%
12 CAPCOM USA 12,194,310 $ 2.8%
13 ACCLAIM ENTERTAINMENT 11,374,630 $ 2.6%
14 MICROSOFT 10,459,350 $ 2.4%
15 MIDWAY 8,986,507 $ 2.0%
16 VIVENDI UNIVERSAL 8,121,814 $ 1.8%
17 KOEI 5,571,626 $ 1.3%
18 LUCASARTS ENTERTAINMENT 4,525,158 $ 1.0%
19 EIDOS INTERACTIVE 3,425,308 $ 0.8%
20 BANDAI AMERICA 3,241,181 $ 0.7%
21 SQUARE EA 2,696,905 $ 0.6%
22 THE 3DO COMPANY 2,683,273 $ 0.6%
23 TDK MEDIACTIVE 2,456,029 $ 0.6%
24 TECMO 2,250,632 $ 0.5%
25 MULTIPLE VIDEO GAME MANUFACTUR 2,142,868 $ 0.5%
26 MAJESCO 2,008,578 $ 0.5%
27 BAM! ENTERTAINMENT 1,955,236 $ 0.4%
28 AGETEC 1,238,791 $ 0.3%
29 INTERPLAY PRODUCTIONS 886,502 $ 0.2%
30 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS 879,051 $ 0.2%

Source: NPD Funworld.

Mario · « **Reply #57 on:** April 30, 2003, 02:26:03 AM »

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Nintendo: 3,106,148 | 43.2%
Gamecube: 1,027,576 | 14.3%
Game Boy Advance: 2,078,572 | 28.9%

Sony Playstation 2: 3,587,938 | 50%

Microsoft Xbox: 480,812 | 6.8%

WTF? So PS2 sold 3.5 million in March? And Gamecube sold a million? And GBA SP didnt outsell PS2? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.....

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8 PS2 ************************ EPISODE 1 122,969

Wha?

AGENTDICKLAURENT · « **Reply #58 on:** April 30, 2003, 02:44:00 AM »

haha.. lies and deceit.

Darc Requiem · « **Reply #59 on:** April 30, 2003, 07:05:23 AM »

Thats Xenosaga Episode 1. Mario........but your right all of those numbers seem awfully high. Especially compared to last months numbers. I mean those look like hardware sales from the Christmas shopping season not the normally slow month of March. I'll believe those numbers when you give me a link to the official site.

Darc Requiem

Mingesium · « **Reply #60 on:** April 30, 2003, 08:16:25 AM »

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USA Hardware Sales for past Month (March): 7,174,898
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Nintendo: 3,106,148 | 43.2%
Gamecube: 1,027,576 | 14.3%
Game Boy Advance: 2,078,572 | 28.9%

Sony Playstation 2: 3,587,938 | 50%

Microsoft Xbox: 480,812 | 6.8%

The numbers don't make sense for hardware sales. I think that the numbers are total software sold for each system.

Darc Requiem · « **Reply #61 on:** April 30, 2003, 08:38:32 AM »

Hmmm....I never thought of it that way. Those numbers could be the total number of consoles sold since the beginning of this year, but if thats the case....it means Nintendo sold 782,576 Gamecubes last month. I know Zelda sold well and I really would like that to be true but I doubt it. Oh and if you are wondering how I came up with that number. In January 81,000 GC's weres old and in February 164,000 GC's were sold....so I added the two together and took that number away from the supposed March sales numbers for GC.

Darc Requiem

jackson · « **Reply #62 on:** April 30, 2003, 02:05:30 PM »

where those top 10 gamecube games that mingesium posted overall unit sales or where they dollars generated?

Mingesium · « **Reply #63 on:** April 30, 2003, 02:19:28 PM »

they were unit sales.

here is what the hardware sales should look like. I used percent growth to get the numbers (% of feb numbers).

PS2 - 406,560
XBox - 163,510
GCN - 164,000

The official numbers should look pretty close. The GCN should beat the XBox by a slim amount.

FFantasyFX · « **Reply #64 on:** April 30, 2003, 05:20:51 PM »

Mingnesium -- I'm curious how you came up with those numbers. I read (in a Nintendo press release) that NPD reported that Nintendo's console sales were up by 20% in March over February. Since Nintendo sold 164,000 consoles in February, that means they sold about 196,800 consoles in March, right? The only question now is how XBox sales were like . . .

Mingesium · « **Reply #65 on:** April 30, 2003, 05:31:07 PM »

In one of the many analyst reports, I forgot which one, it said PS2 and XBox were down a certain percent from Feb 2003 and Nintendo stayed the same.

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The new Zelda game set a Nintendo record with more than 600,000 copies pre-sold to consumers before its March 24 launch date, and retailers now are quickly burning through the entire initial North American shipment of 1.1 million games. In the same period, sales rates for Nintendo GameCube hardware have jumped 20 percent.

It is unclear what is "same period". First, I thought it was 20% from Feb. Now, it seems they are talking about the period after Zelda's launch, which is March 24. The day Zelda launch could have seen a 20% rise from last weeks numbers.

mouse_clicker · « **Reply #66 on:** April 30, 2003, 06:17:31 PM »

FFantasyX: I think what Mingesium meant was he applied the percentage growth in sales from March to the actual sales numbers from February. For example, if Nintendo solld 1,000 Gamecubes in February and sales were up 10% in March, Nintendo sold 1,100 consoles.

Darc Requiem · « **Reply #67 on:** April 30, 2003, 06:40:52 PM »

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Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
FFantasyX: I think what Mingesium meant was he applied the percentage growth in sales from March to the actual sales numbers from February. For example, if Nintendo solld 1,000 Gamecubes in February and sales were up 10% in March, Nintendo sold 1,100 consoles.

You missed FFantasyX's point Mouse_Clicker. Nintendo announced sometime ago that in March they sold 20% more Gamecubes than they did in February. Nintendo sold 164,000 GCs in February. A 20% increase would mean the GC sold 196,800 units in March.

Darc Requiem

ZebulahnX · « **Reply #68 on:** May 01, 2003, 10:01:38 AM »

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Originally posted by: Darc Requiem
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Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
FFantasyX: I think what Mingesium meant was he applied the percentage growth in sales from March to the actual sales numbers from February. For example, if Nintendo solld 1,000 Gamecubes in February and sales were up 10% in March, Nintendo sold 1,100 consoles.

You missed FFantasyX's point Mouse_Clicker. Nintendo announced sometime ago that in March they sold 20% more Gamecubes than they did in February. Nintendo sold 164,000 GCs in February. A 20% increase would mean the GC sold 196,800 units in March.

Darc Requiem

Actually, Nintendo said that there was a 20% increase in Gamecube sales when Zelda was released. That means that there was only a 20% increase in sales during the last week of March, since Zelda didn't come out until the 24th...

FFantasyFX · « **Reply #69 on:** May 01, 2003, 11:18:44 AM »

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Originally posted by: ZebulahnX
Actually, Nintendo said that there was a 20% increase in Gamecube sales when Zelda was released. That means that there was only a 20% increase in sales during the last week of March, since Zelda didn't come out until the 24th...

Nintendo never said that there was a 20% increase after Zelda was released. They said "in the same period." Since the previous statement talked about not only the period after Zelda was released, but the pre-order time period as well, who knows what Nintendo meant. Now that I've seen the whole quote again, I'm inclined to agree with Mingnesium, but you can't deny that the phrase is wonderfully ambiguous (a trait PR people strive for

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jackson · « **Reply #70 on:** May 02, 2003, 04:32:56 AM »

does anybody have any idea what the overall unit sales where for each of the top 10 gamecube games for the month of march 2003?

joeamis · « **Reply #71 on:** May 02, 2003, 06:45:41 AM »

try reading the entire thread before posting!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this was posted on the 3rd page...

Top 10 Selling Games for GameCube for March 2003
1 Zelda: WW 826,352
2 Mario Party 4 61,400
3 Smash Bros. 60,514
4 Metroid Prime 53,815
5 Animal Crossing 24,324
6 LOTR: Towers 21,439
7 The Sims 19,527
8 Mario Sunshine 18,927
9 Def Jam Vendetta 18,164
10 Star Fox Adventures 27,149

if you don't read all the posts you have no right in posting in a thread

FFantasyFX · « **Reply #72 on:** May 02, 2003, 10:07:59 AM »

Joeamis: I'm pretty sure that jackson was asking for overall unit sales for those ten games, how many they've sold since they've been out.

Jackson: I don't have totally exact figures right in front of me, but I can give you my relatively educated guesstimates from memory.

Zelda: 826 k
Smash Bros.: 1,450 k
Mario Party 4: 650 k
Metroid Prime: 850 k
Animal Crossing: 500 k
Def Jam Vendetta: 18 k
Two Towers: 150 k
The Sims: 19 k
Star Fox Adventures: 500 k
Mario Sunshine: 1,600 k (with bundle)

If someone has more exact information, please feel free to post it.

Ninja X · « **Reply #73 on:** May 02, 2003, 11:13:06 AM »

Surprised to see Sunshine beat Smash Bros. according to FFantasyX.

FFantasyFX · « **Reply #74 on:** May 02, 2003, 11:58:48 AM »

Just a note -- Sunshine only beats Smash Bros. if you take into account the bundled versions. If you remove those copies of the game, Sunshine is far behind. With Smash Bros.'s recent reduction in price to $29.99 though, it may be able to overtake Sunshine's total sales anyway. It's a three-way race to the 2 million mark between Zelda, Mario, and Smash Bros . . . who will be the sole survivor?

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