Star Fox Adventures sells well in Japan.

[SearchManX]

http://www.gamesarefun.com/newspro/f...3607376,23912,

from Gamesarefun.com

After only three days of availability, Nintendo and RARE's Star Fox Adventures for the Nintendo GameCube sold 135,700 units.

I'm surprised it did this well... I guess now Nintendo's probably feeling the pinch of letting Rare go. Ah well, Rare had nothing last year so it makes up for the long dev time...

Also:

In fact, hardware sales numbers indicate that the Nintendo GameCube sold 13,000 units between September 23rd and September 29th, more than 50% more consoles than in an average week.

GC seems to have sold really well in September...

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I read this on www.gamefront.de too, impressive given most of Rare's titles sold poorly in Japan. With luck this is the beginning of a upswing for Gamecube abroad and in the US. Prime and Zelda are definitely high points for the rest of the year. *-neo

[SearchManX]

I'm wondering if this will have a trickle effect on the Xbox when Rare eventually releases Kameo on Xbox...

[Zerodash]

...this means that MS is probably gonna make Rare do a game for them that uses a very-similar engine to SFA.

[MVS]

It will peak at 300K, hardly an amazing success.

I also think 6K per week for gc is low, the average seems to be more like 10-12K to me. Meh, no bother.

[dorikyasu]

Would it have sold as much over there if it had been released as just "Dinosaur Planet" with Rare's original characters? (whether on N64 or GC) I believe most of those Japanese gamers who picked up SFA probably bought it thinking of it as a Nintendo game, rather than a Rare game.
It seems that Nintendo forcing Rare to incorporate StarFox license did turn out to be a good idea, after all...

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Originally posted by dorikyasu
Would it have sold as much over there if it had been released as just "Dinosaur Planet" with Rare's original characters? (whether on N64 or GC) I believe most of those Japanese gamers who picked up SFA probably bought it thinking of it as a Nintendo game, rather than a Rare game.
It seems that Nintendo forcing Rare to incorporate StarFox license did turn out to be a good idea, after all...

My sentiments exactly. StarFox sold this title, not the Adventures.

[SearchManX]

Was Starfox always a big-name seller for Nintendo in Japan?

[EThugg]

Yea, Japanese gamers are blind and stupid, they couldn't possibly know what they were buying. They wandered in the store and the sales people took advantage of their super weak minds...

[SearchManX]

WTF?