This is Just Sad

[BreakABone]

I generally don't care too much to post Japanese sales figure or what have you, but when the top selling game is nothing more than some TV organizer, you just got to wonder if something is wrong.

1 - Pokemon Box Ruby & Sapphire Pokemon ETC \2,000 2003 May 30 78,433 78,433

2 - Virtual-On Marz Sega ACT \6,800 2003 May 29 73,071 73,071

3 1 Hamtaro 4: Rainbow Rescue Nintendo AVG \4,800 2003 May 23 32,880 118,166

4 - Winning Post 5 Maximum 2003 KOE SLG \6,800 2003 May 29 17,200 17,200

5 5 Made in Wario Nintendo ETC \4,800 2003 March 21 13,050 351,470

6 - Sim People Living Room Theater Electronic Arts SLG \6,800 2003 May 29 11,638 11,638

7 8 Fire Emblem Sword of Blazing Fire Nintendo S-RPG \4,800 2003 April 25 10,957 200,710

8 - Familiy Stadium 2003 NAMCO SPG \6,800 2003 May 30 10,863 10,863

9 - CR Hissatsu Shigotojin Gekitou Pachitte Chonmage Tatsujin HAKKU berry SLG \6,800 2003 May 29 10,786 10,786

10 - She, the Ultimate Weapon (Saikano) KONAMI AVG \6,800 2003 May 29 10,613 10,613

11 6 Dragon Quest Monsters Caravan Heart ENIX, Square RPG \5,980 2003 March 29 10,475 520,870

12 3 Necchu! Professional Baseball 2003 NAMCO SPG \6,800 2003 April 3 10,395 254,693

13 11 NARUTO Full Throttle Ninjutsu! The Strongest Ninjas Gather Tomy ACT \4,800 2003 May 1 8,978 89,123

14 13 Pocket Monsters Sapphire Pokemon RPG \4,800 2002 November 21 8,600 2,192,126

15 10 Taiko no Tatsujin Spring Festival NAMCO ETC \4,500 2003 March 27 7,888 260,627

16 2 Max Payne Electronic Arts ACT \6,800 2003 May 22 7,886 25,607

17 17 NARUTO Battle Between Fierce Ninjas Tomy FTG \6,800 2003 April 11 7,886 123,967

18 19 Pocket Monsters Ruby Pokemon RPG \4,800 2002 November 21 7,610 2,136,092

19 9 Rockman Zero 2 Capcom ACT \4,800 2003 May 2 7,583 116,877

20 4 Tenchu 3 From Software ACT \6,800 2003 April 24 7,288 232,557

And I think the sales figure only covers the first 2 or 3 days of sale, but really, why would anyone except the diehard Poke-Fanatic buy it.

[Perfect Stu]

see that's the kicker...there are hundreds of thousands of die hard Pokefreaks

[tarakan69]

I love Nintendo and all... But Pokemon sucks.. badly.

[BreakABone]

Originally posted by tarakan69
I love Nintendo and all... But Pokemon sucks.. badly.

I have no problem with the core PokeMon games, the GB RPG series and the Stadium series (even if the latter is a stretch). What I have issues with is the shameless milking. PokeMon Pinball, PokeMon Snap, PokeMon the Card Game.. but this one takes the cake, and it sold well.

[TheGame]

I like Stadium and the RPGs... but they are dying because of a servere lack of advancement. I'm never buyng a GBA pokemon game again. I wish Nintendo would have made GBA more "advanced"