Although there are more Gamecube games in America than what there is in Japan due to more American thrid party support, Nintendo still has soled many 1st party games. There are also a few third party games with high support from the Japanese developers Capcom and Sonic Team.
Super Smash Bros. Melee is still selling the most games in Japan, having soled 1, 172, 000 units in Japan, and other one million in the US.
Super Mario Sunshine quickly got up into the secound place when it was released, being that Mario is the No.1 most known video game character in the world.
Animal Crossing comes in third place, as well as Pikmin in fourth, Luigi's Mansion in fifth and Capcom's famous Resident Evil in sixth place.
Rare's last GCN game jumped in the Top 10 chart very quickly, and has soled 234, 000 so far. Star Fox Adventures has been in the 'Most Wanted' list ever since the game was first shown and announced.