Xbox best selling system? NPD Group says so!
by Jolex Del Pilar

Thursday, December 6, 2001

NPD added that Microsoft’s Halo beat out Nintendo’s Luigi’s Mansion for GameCube as the best-selling launch title.

According to sales figures accumulated by the NPD Group Inc., the Xbox from Microsoft “had the best-selling videogame console launch on record after two weeks.” The group is also reporting that for every Xbox sold, consumers are purchasing 2.4 Xbox games. Both the PlayStation 2 (launched October 26, 2000) and GameCube (launched November 18) only had 1.9 pieces of software sold per unit. NPD added that Microsoft’s Halo beat out Nintendo’s Luigi’s Mansion for GameCube as the best-selling launch title.

-- Jolex Del Pilar, VGLN Warlord