NCS releases Top 20 list

1 Ikaruga [JPN] Dreamcast
2 Shenmue 2 [EUR] Dreamcast
3 Capcom vs SNK 2 [JPN] Dreamcast
4 Guilty Gear X [JPN] Dreamcast
5 Sonic Adventure 2 Birthday Pack [JPN] Dreamcast
6 Dead or Alive 2 [JPN] Dreamcast
7 Capcom vs SNK [JPN] Dreamcast
8 Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter [JPN] Saturn
9 Shenmue [JPN] Dreamcast
10 Sakura Taisen [JPN] Saturn
11 Vampire Saviour [JPN] Saturn
12 Phantasy Star Online v2.0 [JPN] Dreamcast
13 Fire Pro Wrestling D [JPN] Dreamcast
14 Metal Gear Solid 2 [JPN] Playstation 2
15 Vampire Hunter [JPN] Saturn
16 Sakura Taisen 2 [JPN] Saturn
17 King of Fighters 2000 [JPN] Dreamcast
18 Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix [JPN] Playstation
19 Final Fantasy X + International [JPN] Playstation 2
20 Sakura Taisen 4 [JPN] Dreamcast



Awesome.

DC is king.

Would have been nice if they put the numbers so we could see how far some of those were in the lead.

Something's weird about that list.

Good lord... five of those games are Capcom fighters, and nearly 50% of that list is comprised of fighting games!

This is like being excited when a music store that only sells hip-hop records says that their top sellers are hip-hop records.

I presume that that is their "all-time" list...

Makes sense because:

1) DC and Saturn died in the US before many of their better games get localized

2) Fighting gamers have little patience to wait for a domestic release...

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Originally posted by Stibbons
This is like being excited when a music store that only sells hip-hop records says that their top sellers are hip-hop records.

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last time I checked, NCS does\'nt sell only fighting games. But I kinda know what you mean.

Dammit! I was just gonna post this. I liked reading the article attached to it, it explains why certain big games aren't on the list...

Peronsally, I don't think that it's because fighting game fans are impatient, as much as the fact that they are one of the few gaming genres that not knowing Japanese won't hinder you in any way, especially since most of the fighters on the list were Saturn games never released locally.

Hey:

Wow, I own most of those.

My favorite genre is fighting, and I agree to a point with what some of you have said about fighting gamers being impatient. However, I don't think fighting gamers are any more impatient than anyone else who imports games. My take on why the following fighters were heavily imported:

*DC CvS2: When given the choice between playing this game on the Dreamcast or the Playstation 2, I guarantee 99.9% of the people interested in it will say Dreamcast. Also, preorders came with the Fan Disc and bonus items always set off a frenzy.

*DC Guilty Gear X: See above, but this isn't as good an example as CvS2 as it was a long time after the DC release before this game came to the States on PS2. It was supposed to get a domestic DC release, but that never happened. And Guilty Gear has a big cult following and people just had to have the new one.

*DC KOF 2000: This is one of the AES games which had phony copies made of it by Dion Dakis. Not everyone owns MVS hardware, and I haven't heard anything about this coming to America on another console.

You get the picture. Also, a lot of fighting gamers are really picky about little things like changed names in America (i.e. Gouki vs. Akuma), I know I am.

-Technosphile

During my ownership of VGD, I'd have to agree with NCS' numbers for the most part - DC and Saturn *FAR* outsold PS & PS2. The only PS2 title that might have cracked the top 20 was Tekken 3 (and that's because that was a launch title with the PS2 or, fairly close to launch, I should say. DC ruled.

I own half of them. :D I am surprised to see KoF 2000(Dc) on there. I guess it really did sell quite well as I've heard. I guess Pso Ver 2 is up there due to the whole BBA issue. I'm glad to see Fire Pro D up there. I wonder what makes DDR 3rd mix more popular than the others?

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I own or have owned at least half those games ^_^

3rd mix was the peak of DDR. Konami released 5 different arcade versions, and so the machine found its way into America more than anything before it. It was the introduction of catastrophics, a big deal at the time.

But most importantly, 1st and 2nd mix psx just sucked. Awful interface, arrows didn't sync right, few songs. Messy, nasty stuff. 3rd mix was the first to get it right.

3rd mix psx really was a very good home DDR at the time.