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Vicuna on 10 February 2014
Carl2291 said:
Will easily break a Million. This shouldnt even be a question.


Exactly. The question should be more like "how many Wii U´s will Dk sell?"



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Zekkyou on 10 February 2014
fatslob-:O said:
Zekkyou said:

Yeah sorry that was my mistake, i read Pikmin 2's numbers as 3's. I've added a edit to my original post. Still, i cant see DK selling less than a million. The WiiU isn't that doomed.

I'm not saying that it will sell under a mil, infact I very much said that it will hit a million but it will probably be one of it's weakest in the main entry. 

DK3 is the lowest selling of the main series yeah? (3.5 million) If that's the case then yeah, it's never going to match the previous titles.



Somini on 10 February 2014

1 million is a certainty, not right away, but eventually. 5 million will not happen though.



curl-6 on 10 February 2014

That's crazy talk, it will easily crack a million.



FarleyMcFirefly on 10 February 2014

WW lifetime sales will be over 2 million, anything after that would be great. considering WW HD has sold 1.15 million, I'd say it be an easy feat for DK.



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AZWification on 11 February 2014

Are you talking about Japan sales? If yes, then I  think it will do 800k max in Japan.



                
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aviggo77 on 11 February 2014

it will hit million in 2-3 months



Mummelmann on 11 February 2014

Japan only? No, not 1 million, perhaps 500-600k or so. Globally though? Shouldn't be a problem at all, wouldn't be surprised if it sold over 1.5 million either, or even close to 1.8-2 million with the severe thirst for good titles on the system. Most likely though; 1.4-1.6 million.



zorg1000 on 11 February 2014
Mummelmann said:
Japan only? No, not 1 million, perhaps 500-600k or so. Globally though? Shouldn't be a problem at all, wouldn't be surprised if it sold over 1.5 million either, or even close to 1.8-2 million with the severe thirst for good titles on the system. Most likely though; 1.4-1.6 million.


I think even 2 million is selling this game short. Look at the how well Donkey Kong games did on Gamecube.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat-1.34 million

Donkey Konga-1.15 million

These were spinoff titles that used Bongo controllers. Also consider that Mario Sunshine, Mario Kart, Smash Bros all sold around 6-7 million and Wind Waker, Luigi's Mansion, Animal Crossing all sold 3-5 million.

Donkey Kong Country sold 9.3 million on an install base of 49.10 million, Donkey Kong 64 sold 5.27 million on an install base of 32.93 million. Both of those 15-20% attach ratio. If that trend remained on Gamecube, it would have sold at least 3 million.

Also the flagship Mario game on SNES/N64 sold a little over double of DK on those consoles. 20.61 vs 9.30 on SNES and 11.89 vs 5.27 on N64. Sunshine sold 6.31 million on GC, so again following this trend DK would have sold about 3 million.

Now with all that said, Wii U is not Gamecube and is currently doing worse in the same time frame. Wii U is on track to sell about 15 million at the rate its going or about 2/3 of Gamecube lifetime sales. If we assume that a traditional DK sells over 3 million on Gamecube than it should sell over 2 million on Wii U.



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Rogerioandrade on 11 February 2014

After the huge success that was the 3ds version of DKCR, we can be sure that it will break the 1 million barrier on sales