Summary of Nintendo Stats.

Thanks to www.planetgamecube for these statistics, which are accurate.

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NPD Data Reveals Nintendo #1 in Several Categories

January 22, 2004 -- If awards were handed out today for the stars of the video game industry in 2003, Nintendo would walk home with an armful more than any other company. According to independent retail sales data just released by NPD Funworld, Nintendo was named No. 1 in the following categories by the nation's game players:

- No. 1 Selling System: Game Boy® Advance, with 8.1 million sold in 2003

- No. 1 Fastest-Growing System: Nintendo GameCube™, with a 40 percent unit sales increase over 2002 (compared to a 25 percent decline for Sony's PlayStation 2, and flat sales for Microsoft's Xbox)

- No. 1 Fastest-Growing Game Seller: Nintendo GameCube, with a 77 percent unit sales increase over 2002

- No. 1 Hit Maker: Four of the year's top seven sellers played only on Nintendo (Pokémon® Ruby and Pokémon® Sapphire for Game Boy Advance; The Legend of Zelda®: The Wind Waker™ and Mario Kart®: Double Dash!!™ for Nintendo GameCube)

- No. 1 Sales Growth: Corporate retail revenues increased 16 percent over 2002

- No. 1 Landmark: Game Boy Advance just sold its 20 millionth system in America!

That is only because everybody who buys Playstation 2 already did within the past 3 years while gamecube is just finally selling after a couple years. I also find some of that info hard to believe, especially since it came from a Gamecube website makes it sound like they are boasting the system.

I find it easy to believe, becuase the exact same information is coming from "all platforms" magazines.

Probably from the same ones who though wind waker was the best game of the year.

Which it most definatly was.

All of the information is 100% accurate. It's official NPD financial data, not some editor's esitmate. These exact same numbers have also been reported on IGN and Gamespot, and those are two of the most reputable gaming sources online.

And Wind Waker was the best game of the year. The day I see Rockstar Games create a world as immersive or detailed as The Great Sea is the day I suck Bob Dole off for twelve hours.

while gamecube is just finally selling after a couple years.

It's been selling just as much as XBox since both of their launches. It's been selling well, just not as astronomically well as the PS2, mainly because the PS2 had a full year of a head start.