Top 10 in Sales - GameCube - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 October 2012 / 12,621 Views
Welcome to the ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise.
This week we will be looking at the top 10 bestselling games on the GameCube. Last week we looked at the top 10 bestselling games on the original Xbox and the week before that the top 10 bestselling games on the PlayStation 2. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.
Looking at the top 10 bestselling games for the GameCube, nine games are first party, published by Nintendo, and just one game is third party, published by Sega. For games were released during its launch period, 2001, four were released in 2002, and two were released in 2003.
The top 10 bestselling games for the GameCube sold a combined 42.07 million games. Super Smash Bros. Melee Mario Kart Double Dash!! and Super Mario Sunshine are the only games to sell five million or more units. All 10 games in the top 10 sold more than two million units.
Looking at the game sales in the top 10 by publisher, the nine first party games, published by Nintendo, sold a combined 39.51 million units or 93.9 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The one third party game sold 2.56 million units or 6.1 percent of the total games sold in the top 10.
Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling games for the GameCube as a graph really shows how Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart have both become more popular than mainline Mario games. Super Smash Bros. Melee is just the second in the franchise (the original is on the Nintendo 64) and is the bestselling game on the GameCube and is the only game to sell seven million or more units.
As a quick note here are other software sales for the GameCube: 13 games sold two million or more units and 46 games sold one million or more units. Also 96 games sold 500,000 or more units. Nintendo sold 80 million games for its platform.
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Very good games!!!, love the list!, Smash Bros. Melee is one of my favourite games of all time.
Super Smash Bros 100% deserves to be at the top of this list.
Metroid Prime and Wind Waker were great great games. I also played countless hours on Melee. Loved that little cube.
Gamecube was a pretty cool system. Most of the games I've played on my Wii are Gamecube games.
The best thing about the little purple lunch box was the games. I have 6 of these games. I also believe the cube had the highest attach rate in its gen.
I have 9 of those games. Only one I don't have is Colosseum.
Very, very fun memories of the GameCube.
A diverse and high quality line up, I really enjoyed my Gamecube.
Comment 1 - just like the Wii all but 1 of the top 10 are 1st party.
Comment 2 - Even though more Xbox's were sold than GC's the top 10 for the GC sold better with the 10th place GC game replacing the Xbox's 7th placed title.
Luigi's Mansion is number 5. Sweet.
http://imgur.com/1d5B3 have all 10 but Mario Kart and Wind Waker are missing from my collection when I took this pic, damn bro has a lend of them for far too long :) kinda make up for it with the 2 copies of Melee tho (my original disk was in bits after 800 hours play so I got a spare) :D I loved me some gamecube, by far my favorite system to date.
wow so the top selling games on GC didn't even break 10m? Sad part is there is only one game in that list I've owned. I really hope GC is added to Wii U's VC right away. I need to get Zelda:WW.
well the GC only sold around 20million units, for there to be a 10m seller on it would need a 2:1 attach ratio which is almost never seen in gaming.
I loved my GC. Don't worry little buddy I won't ever make fun of you :x
Luigi's Mansion is awesome. Should have sold more. Even though this is my least favorite Nintendo system (except GBA), it deserved to have sold more.
This is sadly the system that 'destroyed' third party loyalty for Nintendo and secured the 'kiddie-image'. Not the Wii, not the N64. After the N64 third parties began to wait and see, the GameCube blew it because it failed to succeed. I mean 2.56m for the best selling third party game is pretty bad.
They stayed away with the Wii, but third parties probably took notice of Nintendo's newfound success, which is pivotal to WiiU's support.
3rd parties had almost all but dried up making stuff for the n64 because of the pain of porting games onto such a smaller amount of space, the gamecube still had great support from EA, THQ, activision and atari
I only had five of those games for my little purple box
Im upset with myself. I only have 2 games on that list.
Dat 3rd party sales
The ps2 has better games.
