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Sales of Nintendo GameCube in Japan declined this week to 26,200 units. Capcom's GameCube exclusive, Resident Evil Ř fell to #17 on the software sales charts in its third week of release. The game has sold a total of 222,000 copies since its release. Mario Party 4 fell to #12 on the charts, while still selling nearly 40,000 copies this week for a total of 362,500 units.

Game Boy Advance sales were extremely strong for a third week in a row at 120,400. Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire, took the #1 and #2 positions on this week's Dengeki game sales charts. Combined sales for both Pokémon games have now topped 2 million units.

Xbox sales surged to 5,900 as Japanese retailers began to sell the console for Ľ19,800 ($160). Microsoft recently began to offer a free DVD remote with Xbox consoles to drive sales during the holiday shopping period. Sony recently cut the suggested retail price of PlayStation 2 to Ľ23,800 ($192) in Japan.

Sales data courtesy of Media Create.


Console Week Year
1 Game Boy Advance 120,400 1,672,700
2 Sony PlayStation 2 74,100 2,003,600
3 Nintendo GameCube 26,200 984,200
4 Microsoft Xbox 5,900 140,800
5 Sony PlayStation 2,300 211,600
6 Bandai Swan Crystal 1,000 91,600

December 12, 2002

Rick - Editor in Chief, GameCubicle


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