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Industry data tracking service NPD Funworld has released November
sales numbers for North America. Sony's PlayStation 2
and Game Boy Advance dominated the console sales charts, each moving
1.3 million systems in November. Meanwhile, 468,000 GameCube
consoles
were sold in November - equaling sales of Microsoft's Xbox. Considering
that Microsoft recently bundled two free Sega games with Xbox, GameCube
performed quite well comparatively.
November software sales grew by 7% overall year-over-year. GameCube
software sales were up by 66% over the same period last year while
Game Boy software sales fell by 16%. By comparison, PlayStation 2
software sales were up 69% and Xbox software sales were up 22%.
Grand Theft Auto:
Vice City for PS2 lead the software sales charts in November with 1,452,700 copies sold. Nintendo's
killer-app, Metroid Prime came in at #2 on the software sales
charts, moving 363,400 units. Microsoft's leading holiday candidate,
Splinter Cell from Ubi Soft, came in at #7 with a moderately
impressive 223,900 units sold. Rounding off the top ten was Metroid
Fusion with 199,700 units sold.
Console Sales
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1 Game Boy Advance |
1,300,000 |
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Sony
PlayStation 2 |
1,300,000 |
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Nintendo GameCube |
468,000 |
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Microsoft Xbox |
468,000 |
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GameCube Games
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GameCube
Game |
Sales |
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1
Metroid Prime |
363,400 |
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2
Mario Party 4 |
167,000 |
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3
Super Mario Sunshine |
131,500 |
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4
Resident Evil Ø |
113,300 |
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5
Harry Potter |
84,000 |
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6
Star Fox Adventures |
66,700 |
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7
Animal Crossing |
61,800 |
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8
Super Smash Bros. Melee |
50,800 |
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9
James Bond 007: Nightfire |
49,900 |
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10
Star Wars: Clone Wars |
46,100 |
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NOTE: NPD Funworld's numbers exclude sales from Walmart.
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December
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Jim - News
Contributor, GameCubicle |
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