@Just_Ben, I'm afraid I have no link, so definitely consider it hearsay. But from people who archived more old data than I did, at the end of 2002 in the US sales of the standalone game were at about a million, with another half million accounted for in the GCN+SMS bundle Nintendo made available for the holiday season. By the end of the year, GCN hardware was up to about 3.5 million.
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I'm afraid I have no link, so definitely consider it hearsay. But from people who archived more old data than I did, at the end of 2002 in the US sales of the standalone game were at about a million, with another half million accounted for in the GCN+SMS bundle Nintendo made available for the holiday season. By the end of the year, GCN hardware was up to about 3.5 million.