Overview
- Circana analyst Mat Piscatella published a ranked list of the top 20 best-selling GameCube games in the United States based on unit sales shared this week.
- The top three spots are Super Smash Bros. Melee, Super Mario Sunshine, and Mario Kart: Double Dash, confirming long-held fan assumptions about the console's biggest sellers.
- Nintendo-published games occupy nine of the top ten slots, while only two third-party titles appear in the top ten, showing a strong first-party skew at the platform's peak.
- Third-party representation improves in the lower half of the top 20 with five entries such as LEGO Star Wars and SoulCalibur II, and Resident Evil 4 is listed at number 21, 7,899 units behind number 20.
- The list, released for the GameCube's 25th anniversary, underscores how clear per-platform sales data used to be available and helps explain why some publishers moved to multiplatform releases during that generation.