GameCube Sales

Here are actual numbers....I want to see numbers from this place! Not from Nintendo or MS. They concider every item they ship as a sold item. Bush league! heh

"Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has released a report containing estimated sales results for what it termed “Xbox Week”—or as iemag.com interprets it, the seven days that began November 11.
The firm is projecting that Microsoft Corp. moved 370,000 Xbox units in the first two days that the console appeared at retail, and that around 810,000 software units were also sold, for a launch tie-in ratio of 2.2. Of the 21 titles available over the first two days, Halo took the top sales spot selling over 176,000 units.

Because of the number of Xbox bundles offered, Microsoft claimed approximately 57% of the Xbox software market, followed by Electronic Arts, Inc. (11%), Activision, Inc. (over 7%) and THQ Inc. and Take-Two Software, Inc. (under 1%). Microsoft is targeting 30% market share over the long term.

KonamiÂ’s PlayStation 2 game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was released on November 13. CSFB estimates that 360,000 units of the game were sold that week, making it the top-selling overall videogame regardless of platform.

Electronic Arts saw the biggest week-to-week sales increase among the companies that CSFB covers, buoyed by four Xbox releases and four Harry Potter games. Take TwoÂ’s Grand Theft Auto 3 continued to sell well, moving over 84,000 copies in Xbox Week, bumping it to an estimated 490,026 units moved in the fourth quarter. CSFB estimated that the title sold 205,000 units in its launch week in October."

* Note—all actual sales numbers are CSFB estimates based on NPD TRST data.

well, from my experience so far i like the xbox games better. theyve got games that either match or beat the ones on the cube.
i havent played that many cube games, only thps3, super monkey ball and nhl hitz (yea my brother has bad game selection) th3 was fun, but i hated the control so i havent played it much. i liked thps2x better cuz of the control and i dont know why but being able to select your own music makes the game so much more fun.
i didnt really like super monkey ball, so far i think the game is overrated. fusoin frenzy on the other hand is great. i only played the demo, but i brought it to my friends house and we played it all night. that game made my buy a third control and ill pick up the full versoin when i get my fourth. that game was instantly addicting tho, and it was just a demo.
both cube and xbox have madden, which i havent played but i read somewhere that xbox was slightly better graphically and that was the only difference. nfl fever is supposed to be better than madden. i have the game and dont think its great, but its kinda fun.
project gotham is also really good. when i bought it i didnt think it'd be that great, i kinda hesitated but got it anyway and that's all ive been playing lately. doa3 is really pretty, but playing it alone sux. there's only one friend i have who likes fighting games and i had a blast playing doa with him, but now that he's not here its collecting dust.
halo is real fun, and the online play is a plus. only thing i dont like about halo is the level design. it gets so repetitive and sometimes annoying. it'd be perfect if it had better levels, esp for deathmatch. i havent played games like wave race or luigi, and i dont really care for them. i hear waverace is practically a remake and luigi isnt too great, but i wont comment on thme til i play them. and xbox has lots of games coming up in the future that im really interested in. jet grind radio 2 in feb, nba2k2 and nfl2k2 i january i think. march has unreal championship and in december blood wake and i hear that silent hill is coming out soon too.

Somebody has to do it.

Yes, I went out from my PC shell and bought a gamecube. I made a pact to myself to only buy multiplayer games and play 'em with friends. It was a good decision, just go ahead and play Monkey fight with four friends and you'll know what I mean. heh heh Go gamecube.

don't think xbox is doing to good. every electronic store at the mall had servral this weekend

I can't believe so many people are buying the Gamecube. Do people really want to play mMario and Pokemon games for the rest of their lives? There are more freaks in this world than I thought.

o, and i think the cube control is comfortable, fits perfectly in my hands. if it werent for the gay button layout the control would be perfect. tony hawk on it is hard enough, i dont even wanna imagine a fighting game.

XBox sales? Considering it costs an INSANE $600-$700 CAN and the GameCube costs $300, it's no contest. Does GameCube also cost HALF of what XBox costs in the US and the rest of the world? If XBox would cost CAN $300 I would probably pick it up too, but $700+tax just to play Halo... no f'ing way!

well i think this will prompt sony to lower their price on the ps2...

If i owned nintendo i would have commercials that have kids playing violent videogames then being violent in school.

and then showing that nintendo is non-violent (well not as much as the others)

they should do this so more over protective parents would buy x-boxes for their kids

I wish sony would drop the ps2 price. I already own one, but I think they need to drop it to stay in competition. Even if they have some of the best titles out on any console

my brother got a gc and i think the controller is way too small, and weird. i dont like the button layout. i found playing tony hawk on it pretty hard cuz of the buttons. i like the xbox control a lot better. i traded in tony hawk 2x cuz my brother was gettin th3 and on i regret it, i liked 2x better cuz of the control and the option to play your own music. the motion blur was cool too, i dont thikn they have that in th3.
everywhere i go in RI they say that xbox is outselling GCs, every time i go to EB i see people picking up xboxes and the guys who work there are always trying to convince people to buy one, while never mentioning GC. with the games that are out now i think xbox is a better buy, esp with the network card and HD, that way you dont have to spend unnecessary money on a memory card. the games so far are so much better than the GC ones. and the ability to play halo online now makes it even better.

Holy crap, has anyone held a Gamecube controller in their hands yet? I tried one out at a Target store yesterday and I felt like I was a 25' tall giant holding the thing. Did someone with the stature of a 10 year design the controller? Because I could never see playing a game with one for more than 10 minutes.

Yea, i've played a little bit of a couple of games on it. It's way tiny, but i was starting to get a little comfortable with it playing the jetski game. But the idea of using that tiny thing and that absurd button config for a fighter is not somthing that i would look forward to.

That article hinted twards the fact that the GameCube was outselling xbox by a substantial margin, where'd they get those numbers?