December 19^th, 2002 (12:00am) - The Legend of Zelda Kaze no Takuto has arrived in Japan and its impact is a massive one. Since its release on the 13th of the December (In Japan only of course), Kaze no Takuto has managed to sell a massive 407,700 units in just two days topping the charts and ranking in first place for the best selling game of that week. In similar news, GameCube sales spiked up reaching 67,500 pieces sold. All hardware sales respectively doubled from the previous week and surprisingly for the first time since its release the Xbox has sold more than the aging PSone.

Top Ten games:

1) GCN The Legend of Zelda: Kaze no Takuto 407,700/407,700
2) PS2 Winning Eleven 6 336,500/336,500
3) GBA Pocket Monsters Sapphire 180,600/ 1,014,500
4) GBA Pocket Monsters Ruby 180,200/ 1,016,000
5) PS2 .hack Vol. 3 96,000/96,000
6) PS2 Guilty Gear XX 74,900/74,900
7) PS2 Clock Tower 3 50,000/50,000
8) GCN Mario Party 4 48,500/414,300
9) GBA Rockman Exe. 3 47,800/120,800
10) PS2 Gallop Racer 6 Revolution 44,800/44,800

Hardware sales:

1)Nintendo GameBoy Advance 241,600 2,821,400
2) S C E PlayStation 2 115,200 3,357,200
3) Nintendo GameCube 67,500 1,052,300
4) Microsoft Xbox 13,400 296,200
5) S C E Playstation 2,800 213,300
6) Bandai WonderSwan Crystal 2,600 107,300
7) Bandai WonderSwan Color 1,700 118,100
8) Nintendo GameBoy Color 520 81,900
9) Nintendo GameBoy 370 5,600
10) Nintendo N64 240 6,400
11) Bandai WonderSwan 220 8,400
12) Sega Dreamcast 19 17,500
13) S C E Pocket station 15 1,300