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News   Nintendo Sales Rise in Japan
- Posted By Francis Bonnet, 11.29.2002

According to the latest Japanese sales figures, our favorite little cube has doubled in sales from last week with an amazing 37,400 hardware units sold. Nintendo software also dominates the top five slots of all software being sold in Japan. Oh, and with the newest release of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire for GBA, Gameboy Advance hardware sales are #1 overall - even above the PS2 - proving that Pokemon popularity is as strong as ever. Biohazard 0 came in #3 only because of the unstoppable popularity of Pokemon - both which sold over 1 million units combined. Here are the latest Japanese sales figures:

Software:

1. Pocket Monsters Sapphire (Nintendo/GBA) - 549,300

2. Pocket Monsters Ruby (Nintendo/GBA) - 543,900

3. Biohazard 0 (Capcom/GC) - 194,900

4. Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation (Banpresto/GBA) - 147,300

5. Mario Party 4 (Nintendo/GC) - 31,600 (291,700)

6. Taiko no Tatsujin (Namco/PS2) - 27,800 128,700

7. Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter (Capcom/PS2) - 23,100 (106,800)

8. Pop n' Music 7 (Konami/PS2) - 20,500

9. DQ Characters: Torneko no Daiboiken 3 (Enix/PS2) - 19,500 (445,600)

10. Zero 4 Champ Series: Drift Champ (Hudson/PS2) - 18,700

Hardware:

1. GameBoy Advance - 150,800 (2,313,400)

2. PlayStation 2 - 38,400 (3,101,500)

3. GameCube - 37,400 (923,400)

4. XBox - 1,900 (273,600)

5. PS One - 1,800 (205,900)

6. WonderSwan Crystal - 1,300 (102,500)

Hmmm... do I see any Xbox games in the top ten list? NOPE! Microsoft is evil.

Source: Gamecube Europe