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Heading into the all important holiday season, Nintendo took an early lead this week with extremely impressive hardware sales numbers in Japan. The story of the week was by far Game Boy Advance, which on the release of Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire, saw sales soar to 150,000, up from 43,000 last week. The combined sales of both Pokémon games was nearly 1,100,000 units.

In consoles, the introduction of Resident Evil Ř on GameCube lifted system sales to 37,400 units from week-ago levels of 15,000, putting GameCube on par with PlayStation 2 in weekly sales. In its first week of release in Japan, REŘ sold 95,000 copies, giving it the #3 spot in the region's software sales charts. Mario Party 4 also held firm at #5, moving 31,000 - for a total of 292,000 copies sold since launch.

Sales data courtesy of Media Create.


Console Week Year
1 Game Boy Advance 150,800 1,285,000
2 Sony PlayStation 2 38,500 1,863,100
3 Nintendo GameCube 37,400 923,000
4 Sony PlayStation 3,700 131,800
5 Microsoft Xbox 1,950 207,100
6 Bandai Swan Crystal 1,850 89,500

November 28, 2002

Rick - Editor in Chief, GameCubicle


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