The big wigs had a teleconference today about Nintendo's holiday sales, the 2002 outlook and Arakawa's retirement. Click here for the goods...
Bloomberg has posted a Real Audio file of Today's teleconference with Peter Main, George Harrison, and Peter MacDougall. Click the above link to hear the whole thing. Here's a breakdown of the more important points made:
- Worldwide, 2.7 million GCs have shipped to date
- Tie-ratio for combined GBC/GBA is 4.1 through December
- About 60% of GBA owners are 14 and under
- NOA plans to sell around 25 million GameCubes in N. America in the next five years (there were about 20 million N64s sold)
- NOA had known about Arakawa's retirement since last summer
- NBA Courtside 2 will be released next week
- Super Mario Advance 2 will be released on Feb. 11
- Sonic Adv. 2 and Advance will be the first GC/GBA interconnecting game setup
- Perhaps there will be an appearance of Pokemon on GBA before the end of the year
- Super Smash Bros. Melee outsold all Xbox games
- Combining total sales of all games, GameCube software outsold Xbox software
- The top-selling GB title was Pokemon Crystal.
