Anyone have sales numbers for some of the fringe holiday titles?

[Jeremy]

BYW 2 deserves to fail, and I'll buy UtS when I'm able to find a copy.

[The_Meach]

PS2 TAIKO DRUM MSTR W/CNT $412,646 6,840

You'd have thought it'd do better.

Oh. Controller.

[Ragnarok the Red]

GCN BATEN KAITOS: ETERNAL $938,732 18,996

Not bad at all considering the game wasn't really advertised at all and just kind of "appeared" on the shelves. Shows just how starved for RPGs the GC is.

PS2 UNDER THE SKIN $14,684 370
PS2 GHOSTHUNTER $46,574 953
PS2 NIGHTMARE OF DRUAGA $30,236 761
PS2 BLOOD WILL TELL $33,762 849
PS2 APE ESCAPE: PUMPED $36,862 932

That's pretty hilarious, particularly Under the Skin which I've never even heard of. I can't believe Ghosthunter didn't even break a thousand with all the magazine advertising and solid reviews it got, survival horror really is on a sharp decline.

And, man, Ape Escape, talk about a franchise with wasted potential...

[Bacon McShig]

I can't believe Ghosthunter didn't even break a thousand with all the magazine advertising and solid reviews it got, survival horror really is on a sharp decline.

Well, that's one I wasn't sure of the release on, it may have been October and did stronger then. Still, even if that number is second month, it couldn't have done too good the first.

And even though it's a bomb, I can't believe over 8,000 people bought friggin' Fight Club. 8,000 people are deluded enough to think that could possibly be worth their $50? I weep for humanity.

[jarrod]

Thanks for the list .. it reconfirms my notion that Halo 2 / MSG / GTA:SA / HL2 have sucked up most of the gaming dollars out there. There are alot of underperformers.

MGS3 suffered too, it sold under 300k, which was about half what Konami expected after they revised down figures dramatically. No way the game breaks 6 million worldwide like they wanted.

I can't comprehend why anyone would by Metroid on GBA when they could get Metroid Zero Mission for the same price (which even includes the original).

That goes double for Dr Mario & Wario Ware.

Nintendo really understood that there was a market for people wanting to relive the classics and exploited the hell out of it. Nintendo might have bungled the Gamecube badly, but they hit a homerun with this raping strategy.

Indeed. Here's the lifetime totals totals so far...

Classic NES Series 1
Bomberman~ 18,852
Donkey Kong~ 171,930
Excitebike~ 65,052
Ice Climbers~ 22,101
Pac-Man~ 96,539
Super Mario Bros~ 312,675
The Legend of Zelda~ 232,779
Xevious~ 12,406

Classic NES Series 2
Castlevania~ 23,924
Dr. Mario~ 54,093
Metroid~ 19,913
Zelda II: The Adenture of Link~ 43,709

..the numbers for Japan are even more sick, with SMB closing in on 600k (and the entire Famicom Mini line is well past 2 million).

Not bad at all considering the game wasn't really advertised at all and just kind of "appeared" on the shelves. Shows just how starved for RPGs the GC is.

I was actually expecting quite a bit more after Symphonia's breakout succes this summer and the fact that Baten Kaitos looks much more mainstream friendly. The GameCube audience is pretty fickle.

[Mzo]

Interestingly enough, the NES Dr. Mario on the GBA has wireless multiplayer off a single cart support.

Nice extra, I thought (still not $20 nice, tho).

[Bacon McShig]

Here's couple more notable bombs:
PS2 KOF: MAXIMUM IMPACT $367,593 8,195
PS2 THE BARD'S TALE $421,797 8,528
XBX THE BARD'S TALE $373,160 7,542

[AaronChance]

Fight Club outsold Otogi 2... people are even dumber than I thought.
And Blood Will Tell sold practically nothing.
I think it's some kind of Sega curse.

[elfneedsfood]

Fight Club outsold Otogi 2... people are even dumber than I thought.
And Blood Will Tell sold practically nothing.
I think it's some kind of Sega curse.

I think some of this has to do with shelf space. I've seen Fight Club in sereral stores, and I certainly wasn't looking for it. At EB and Gamestop they put it right in the middle of the shelf at eye level. I went in serveral stores specifically looking for Blood Will Tell, and I couldn't find it. I finally saw one copy at EB. I have seen Otogi 2 at a few stores though.

[Shapermc]

Quit yer bitching about the Classic NES games. I would much rather buy Castlevania alone than Castlevania with Pac-Man for $30. Or any other bad combination. Seriously. Also you have to realise that alot of people are buying these games for their kids because they played the games themselves as kids.

Anyways, yea, Metroid sales # is stupid with Zero Mission still readily available.

How the hell is an SP game wireless multiplayer Mzo?