List Of Best-selling Nintendo GameCube Video Games
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that have sold or shipped at least one million copies. The best-selling game on the GameCube is ''
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''. First released in Japan on November 21, 2001, it went on to sell just over 7.4 million units worldwide. The second best-selling game was '' Mario Kart: Double Dash'', selling 6.96 million units. ''
Super Mario Sunshine is a 2002 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It is the second 3D game in the ''Super Mario'' series, following ''Super Mario 64'' (1996). The game was directed by Yoshiaki Koizumi and Kenta Usui, produced by ...
'' is the console's third best-selling game, with 6.28 million units. There are a total of 35 GameCube games on this list which are confirmed to have sold or shipped at least one million units. Of these, eight were developed by internal Nintendo development divisions. Other developers with the most million-selling titles include
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with four games each, and
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with three games. Of the 35 games on this list, 28 were published in one or more regions by Nintendo. Other publishers with multiple million-selling games include Capcom with three games, and
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and
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both with two games. The most popular franchises on GameCube include ''
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'' (3.1million combined sales), ''
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'' (4.2million combined sales), ''
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'' (5.75million combined sales), and most notably ''
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'' (26.68million combined sales). By 2010, over 208.57million total copies of games had been sold for the GameCube. Despite coming in at 3rd place during the 6th generation of video game consoles, it had the highest
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of any Nintendo console at 9.59.


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GameCube The is a home video game console developed and released by Nintendo in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in PAL territories in 2002. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 (1996), and predecessor of the Wii ...
Best-selling GameCube video games