GameInformer: Top Sales Charts

[MuGen]

Top 20 in North America:
1. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - PS2
2. Need for Speed: Underground 2 - PS2
3. Halo 2 - XBOX
4. Madden NFL 2005 - PS2
5. Call of Duty: Finest Hour - PS2
6. Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories - GBA
7. Need for Speed: Underground - XBOX
8. NBA Live 2005 - PS2
9. Metal Gear Solid 3 - PS2
10. Mario Party 6 - GCN
11. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II - XBOX
12. Dragonball Z Budokai 3 - PS2
13. Super Mario 64 DS - DS
14. The Incredibles - GBA
15. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 - PS2
16. Jak 3 - PS2
17. Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie - GBA
18. Ghost Recon 2 - XBOX
19. Donkey Kong Country 2 - GBA
20. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal - PS2

^ According to sales, Nintendo is getting a lot of their sales from their Handheld market, so at least you know they are holding strong in that court.

Top 10 JAPAN
1. Gran Turismo 4 - PS2
2. Wario Ware Touched! - DS
3. Super Mario 64 DS - DS
4. Dragon Quest VII - PS2
5. Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater - PS2
6. To Heart 2 - PS2
7. Itadaki Street Special - PS2
8. Mega Man Battle Network 5 - GBA
9. Mario Party 6 - GCN
10. Tales of Rebirth - PS2

^ Again, the handheld market for Nintendo is still very strong. And Xbox still has no ground in japan... mwahahaha

Top 10 GameInformer
1. Resident Evil 4 - GCN
2. Devil May Cry 3 - PS2
3. World of Warcraft - PC
4. Gran Turismo 4 - PS2
5. NBA Street V3 - Multiplatform
6. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap - GBA
7. Star Wars KOTR - XBOX
8. Halo 2 - XBOX
9. Gran Theft Auto: San Andreas - PS2
10. Star Wars: Replublic Commando - XBOX

Thats GameInformer Sales Report of March 2005

[Crash]

the top 1 looks like december numbers...


WHERE'S RE:4??

[MuGen]

That's from the March 2005 issue of Game Informer. I can honestly say that RE4 probably didn't sell that much here, considering how many households have a GCN in North America.

And considering RE4 only launched on the Gamecube, I don't see many sales for it. However GameInformer has it at #1 for overall game, not sales.

Considering the ratio of Playstation 2's to Gamecube's is 5 to 1 I'd say if RE4 launched on the PS2, the sales would've been higher, and only because theres more PS2 owners out there that would buy it. Myself included, considering all my RE's were on PS consoles. RE4 was an awesome game, and they did a good job on GCN, but even I didn't go out and get a Gamecube just for the game. So in essence, the key factor in sales were how many GC owners out there were Survival Horror fans. A lot of my friends who own GC's aren't RE fans. I'd say the graphics would probably be a little choppier on the PS2 but looking at Ps2 owners in NA, I'd say they would make more sales with the PS2 port.

You can tell because Nintendo sells a lot more GBA/DS games in Japan and NA then GCN games believe it or not. The charts show only a few GCN games up there whilst the list is encumbered by their GBA games.

Sales Reports for a game consists of Popularity, and Compatibility. If it launched on the PS2, more PS2 owners would've hopped on and bought it making it a best seller. But theres just not enough GCN owners in NA.

Consider 80,000,000 Ps2 owners and maybe 20% of those are RE fans?
I forget the number of GCN Owners, but I know it's lower then Xbox.

Until the Revolution comes out, Nintendo has to hold their ground with the DS and the new Gameboy.

[Crash]

yeah, funny part is stuff like mario party keeps selling like mad.... no wonder third parties are pissed

[MuGen]

Now you know.... even though PS2's development kit is a nightmare for developers... theres just too many PS2 owners out there, for the developers to say 'forget Sony lets go to Microsoft or Nintendo.'

So... aside from being an awesome system graphically, Third party will always support the top selling system. I admit PS2 isnt the best in terms of graphics, but theres are so many PS2 owners, causing third party support to swarm to PS2.