Somebody moves from 3rd place to 2nd in America.. ;)

how many links do you want?

http://www.consolewire.com/news/item.asp?nid=2331

http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/games/2001/11/20/gamecube-sales.htm

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002jan/bga20020110009696.htm

those all say 1.2 million sold at the end of 2001.

I shouldn\'t have to give you any other links to say that 2.3 million is wrong. npd does not provide the weekly numbers on there site anymore (not even past weeks) so you will have to go by my word, which, judging by this argument, is probably the most true thing in here.


Eric Jacob

Well, actually.. that \'March\' thing is pretty peculiar. Still, after the manufacturing/shipping drought for the GameCube (which limited sales in early 2002) people started buying the system more. Why? I honestly don\'t know. Personally, I think the Xbox had far better games overall in Q1. It has more games out.. but does this matter? Not really. If somebody wants the Xbox just for Halo and DOA3.. he\'s not going to give a damn about 40~ games. Most of them will be rentals.

As for NPD.. conflicting reports. One week they report big GCN game sales, the week after.. Xbox is on top.

All in all, with all of the conflicting reports on sales and the like.. the Xbox is not on top of the GameCube. I can\'t say that the GCN is on top of the Xbox either, since we don\'t know. Alright? All I know is, GCN was outselling Xbox weekly in March.. and GCN games such as SSBM and Sonic Adventure 2 ranked higher than most Xbox fare that month.

BTW.. you\'re calling me naive? You\'re not even leaving a slight chance for GameCube to be on top based on the Reuters reports or not.. right? That\'s naive. As I said before, GCN was outselling the Xbox during a game drought, long before the system-selling/hard-to-keep-in-stock Resident Evil hit the shelves to boost GameCube sales again.

IMO, it\'s anyone\'s game.. and articles like this seem to enforce the possibility that GCN is #2 in America behind PS2 now. They\'re on the road to outselling Xbox 4-to-1 in Europe, too.. nevermind the domination in Japan..

I don\'t really care if Nintendo is on top of MS or not, but there is no way in hell that GC sold 2.3 million. It may be beating XBox, but there is no way in hell it sold 1.1 million consoles in 3 months.

I get satisfaction from playing games, not spooging over sales numbers. I enjoy winning arguments on the side, also.

Please tell me that GC sold 2.3 million by March so that I may hurl insults your way (and be kicked out, forever!)


Eric Jacob

jebus man, let the death grip on the  "1.1 million consoles in 3 months" deal

we all can acknowlefge that today the sales break down like this

1. PS2
2. GC
3. xbox

is this gonna change?  well, 1. wont
GC will juggle back and forth i presume depending on what hyped title comes out that week.
untill, of course nintendo drops the big boys 4th quarter

Originally posted by AlteredBeast

1.2 million at the end of the year. If you ever want to be randomly smacked around, argue with me again. I find proving people wrong to be the only fun of this forum anymore.

Go check out Off Topic, it\'s pretty fun there too.

nah, nothing in there but  racer vs bob fights