Adam Tyner

Since there's intense interest in company sales for whatever reason:

http://cube.ign.com/articles/373/373041p1.html

Groucho

Interesting. I had no idea that Super Smash Brothers sold less than Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. I'm sure Super Mario Sunshine will outsell them both (if it hasn't already).

Aghama

[troll]Imagine how many they would have sold if Sonic Adventure 2 had been a good game![/troll]

Adam Tyner

I could be mistaken, but I believe these are sales so far this year. A quick search on Google indicates that SSBM was released pretty late last year, but the sales it racked up in those last few weeks of 2001 were probably enough to put it over the top, especially considering its proximity to Christmas time.

Halo, despite being released only a few weeks earlier, managed to rack up hundreds of thousands of copies sold.

gcribbs

or if it had been released on a system with a larger installed base

Interesting game sales. I am a bit surprised how few units they have sold overall.

It also looks like Soccer is not a huge seller

31000 people bought a tennis game

Adam Tyner

I agree. I'm disappointed to see how low the sales for Soccer Slam on the XBox have been -- it's probably my favorite sports game of all time. I guess sports enthusiasts on the XBox prefer more realistic, sim-heavy games.

Get Me Coffee

Sonic was good. What else did Nintendo have going for them other than Sonic in Feb.?

Lastblade

1500 SOLD for Soccer Slam on the Xbox? You are kidding me right? If so that's almost as rare as Panzer Dragoon Saga LOL!

jiggyblau

I would have thought World Series Baseball would have made the list.

Mike_AA

Why are sports games selling absolutely terrible on the GC? I honestly think I'm the only one buying the 2K games. Good Lord.

I hope Sega and others don't just forget about the Cube altogether. Then again, if you see the NFL 2K3 port, you know they didn't give a rat's ass about the Cube. Ugh.

Jackskeleton

[troll]simple, the people who buy GC are waay to young to even think about sports[/troll]

that said, looks cool. though I would be interested to see a chart on the sales record of dreamcast before it went under

darkside

I'm buying my sports games of the Cube, but I think the memory card issue is what is driving gamers to the PS2 or Xbox. Every Sports game takes a whole memory card. I put up with it to use the Wavebird.

evenflow

Probably because the controller isn't made for sports games or that saved files take too much space on memory cards. OR [troll]The GCN is kiddy system and kids don't like sports yet.[/troll]
Seriously, people just don't buy a Gamecube for its sports games.

Mike_AA

Yeah I bought a GC for the Nintendo titles and sports titles. If the Nintendo titles keeping sucking, I guess the XBOX is the way to go?

I have the memory 251, and have plenty of space left even with a 2K3 franchise and 2 playbooks in there. How much space does Madden or 2K3 take up on the PS2 or XBOX?

manny_jim

I bought an X-box for the sport games. I have NCAA 2003, World Series Baseball, and Project Gotham. I also have about 20 music tracks for racing games. You do not even come close to having memory space issues. I have rented many other sport games and forget to erase those games of the hard drive. Even then, I still had lots of memory left. I got tired of memory issues with the Dreamcast and PS2. The only complaint I have on the Box is that I wish developers (EA) would take advantage of the Box power.

Mattalos

Soccer Slam on Xbox only came out about a month ago ... While that's not a huge number, considering it's only been out a month it's not a horrible number either.

KissyFurNYC

So at 50 bucks a pop, Sonic Adventure 2, a port of a Dreamcast game, made them 23 million. Not bad.

Gallant Pig

And considering the World Cup is long since gone and I believe it was going on when then GCN version came out, that has to be a contributing factor. I didn't even realize it was out until I saw this graph.

Josh H

Bingo. I bought NCAA 2003 for the PS2 instead of the GC simple because I didn't want to have to buy a Mem 251 to save the game. I would have prefered the GC version otherwise, as I greatly prefer the Wavebird to the Dual Shock.

Trigger

I'm really surprised at the Sonic Adventure 2 numbers - wasn't it available for the Dreamcast too? Are the Dreamcast numbers added in there? Another thing I find interesting is how well the Xbox sales look compared to other consoles. Sports games are doing really well... look at NFL2k3... considering there are up to 10 times as many PS2s out there, the PS2 version should've sold way more than the Xbox version instead of just a bit more. All Xbox needs is one really good game from Sega. Sega GT ain't it unfortunately IMO.

gcribbs

I would bet Madden is the reason. i expect that it sells a ton more on the PS2

Trigger

excellent point...

darkside

Those are the real GameCube numbers for Sonic 2. Its a very popular franchise. Its going to do very well on the GameCube for reasons I don't even want to get a debate started about. It wasn't even very good, so I can only imagine how many copies a good Sonic game will sell. The Sonic Collection thats coming out will probably make them big money with little effort.

I think the Xbox owners probably went a little stronger to NFL2K3 due to it being Xbox Live compatible. Probably why it sold so close to the PS2 numbers.

s}{ammer

darkside and gcribbs are right. Since EA refused to sign onto Xbox live, any xbox owners looking for online football have to go with NFL 2k3. Anyone know if it sold better than Madden on xbox?

mr.snowmizer

On Xbox, Madden outsold NFL 2k3 on a 2.5:1 ratio.

And that chart did forget WSB on Xbox, which must be over 100,000 now. (Sega sold 14,719 copies in July to get to a total of 89,575, as of the end of that month.)

The cynical part of me notes that conveniently forgetting WSB (come on, how could they?) allows this Game Cube site to show Super Monkey Ball in the #4 spot. But the realist part (perhaps they're just really careless) knows there's no point to purposely leaving the game off the list.

By the way, when exactly did Sega Soccer Slam arrive on Xbox? It must have been VERY late in August. If so, it still has hope as PS2 Tennis 2k2 only sold 8000 on its only day for sale in July. Then again, SSS is no Virtua Tennis.