Top 20 Best Selling Japanese Games of 2002

[BlueFire]

1 Pocket Monster Sapphire Nintendo GBA RPG 11.21.02 1,391,612
2 Pocket Monster Ruby Nintendo GBA RPG 11.21.02 1,349,297
3 World Soccer Winning Eleven 6 Konami PS2 Sports 04.25.02 1,090,655
4 Onimusha 2 Capcom PS2 Action 03.07.02 949,325
5 Kingdom Hearts Square PS2 A.RPG 03.28.02 819,617
6 Shin Sangoku Musou 2 Mushouden Koei PS2 Action 08.29.02 741,185
7 Tales of Destiny 2 Namco PS2 RPG 11.28.02 736,129
8 Super Mario Sunshine Nintendo GC Action 7.19.02 655,136
9 Super Robot Taisen Impact Banpresto PS2 S.RPG 3.28.02 592,141
10 From TV Animation: One Piece Grand Battle 2 Bandai PSone Fighting 3.20.02 579,333
11 Mario Party 4 Nintendo GC Party 11.08.02 529,499
12 Virtua Fighter 4 Sega PS2 Fighting 01.31.02 521,705
13 SD Gundam G Generation Neo Bandai PS2 S.RPG 11.28.02 498,509
14 Let's Make a Pro Soccer Club 2002 Sega PS2 Simulation 03.07.02 496,943
15 Toruneko's Great Adventure 3: Mysterious Dungeons Enix PS2 RPG 10.31.02 494,224
16 Kirby Star: Fountain of Dream Nintendo GBA Action 10.25.02 462,184
17 Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 9 Konami PS2 Sports 07.18.02 431,291
18 My Summer 2: Chapter of Sea Adventure Sony PS2 Adventure 07.11.02 400,506
19 Legend of Zelda: Baton of Wind Nintendo GC A.RPG 12.13.02 396,932
20 Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles Bandai PS2 Action 08.01.02 383,903

I got it from Magic-Box.

Thoughts? Nintendo seems to have done well, why Sony did great as well.

[DeathsHand]

Yes... well...

o.o

[gekko]

The breakdown:

Nintendo: 4,784,660
Gamecube: 1,581,567
GBA: 3,203,093

Sony: 8,735,466
PS2: 8,156,133
PSX: 579,333

Microsoft: N/A

Looks like Sony's doing fine to me.

[Angrist]

Hm looks like Zelda hasn't got the chance to sell much copies yet. :)

[GameKinG]

Yes Zelda sold well in 2002 to be released at the end and still make it on.

[Dyne]

Yeah, for only being out half a month, that's really impressive. And, hey, Pokemon selling so well is also a Godsend mostly because it was released rather late as well. As for number 3, What the hell? How did a soccer game do so well? That's kind of suprising. :unsure:

[Angrist]

Soccer is big in Japan. :) :confused:

[Perfect Stu]

It may be hard to believe, but sports games can be VERY high quality, deep, engrossing games :eek:

And besides, the Japenese are crazy over 'football'. Put two and two together, and you get a million-seller.

[GameKinG]

Soccer is very big in Japan, or to be more specific Winning Eleven 6 (which is coming to Gamecube).

[Dyne]

Yeah, I'm guessing that's why I saw millions of crazy japanese at the world cup. Genius I am! :p

[Shadow_Link]

Is it just me, or are those Zelda numbers off by atleast 100,000?

Were these numbers from Dengeki?