Ok, let me put it this way. I was trying to tiptoe around saying it but... Splatoon is incredibly niche. It's a shooter game that  won't appeal to an immense amount of gamers. I may be wrong, I would love to be prooved wrong but Splatoon won't be a game that generates an explosion of sales for Wii U. In the PUBLIC eye, it's just another kids game. It isn't anything like Call of Duty, GTA, or anything of the sort. Am I saying those games are better than Splatoon? No, I'm just formulating an opinion here. Splatoon isn't like Mario or Zelda because it is new. Gamers, especially American gamers of this day and age, don't want anything new or child like. A vast majority of them anyway. Xenoblade has a much more mature feel that will bring in JRPG gamers just like Chronicles did. You may be right, you may not be. But that is no reason to downplay one's opinion, even if it doesn't make sense to you. That's silly bro.

No, just no.

Splatoon will easily outsell Wonderful 101.

It's recieving a much bigger push from Nintendo, including bundles, it's multiplayer focussed, and it has more consumer awareness. 

Indeed we will.

I'm willing to bet that it will outsell Wonderful 101 if you are. ;)

I don't bet, but I will happily come back here and admit my failure in the case of me being incorrect

Yeah I can see why you'd try to avoid saying something as ridiculous as this. Shooter = niche? lol it's the probably most prominent genre on home consoles, both saleswise and in the number of games released in the genre, and definitely bigger than RPGs, but I'm too lazy to fact check that. Please stay on topic, this about Splatoon vs Xenoblade sales so whether or not Splatoon sells Wii U's is irrelevant, and please do not pretend you're everyone, you have no idea what everyone American or not thinks. This is clear by how you believe people don't want new IPs despite how they sell all the time including the few Nintendo's done like Pikmin n Animal Crossing. I do find it laughable that you think Splatoon being a "kids" game is in anyway detrimental to it's sales despite practically every Nintendo game ever also being a "kids" game with the less kiddy ones like Metroid n Fire Emblem selling worse than happy go lucky Marios n Pokemons. If anything Xenoblade is actually at a disadvantage for being more "mature". Being a new IP has nothing to do with the fact that like 3D World, Mario Kart n Smash Bros., Splatoon has vibrant colorful cartoon artstyle, is multiplayer focused, linear in it's progression n easy to pick up in play (a.k.a. simple), and it's matches/levels/races take a few minutes a time, a pretty sharp contrast to Xenoblade with it's more realistic style, singleplayer focus, overwhelming world n complex battle system, and you'll have to spend hours at a time to really get anywhere. Now I'm not down playing your opinion here. If you believe Xenoblade will sell more then that's perfectly fine, it's only your reasoning that I have a problem with because it makes no sense to me or anyone.

If you want to talk about a game, you have to make comparisons to make a valid argument. You're getting waaay to offensive here, we're just talking about games dude. Life will go on. I don't think Splatoon is too much of a KIDS game, as I am a Nintendo fan myself. I jus think Nintendo fans should notice that not everything Nintendo makes will succeed. Splatoon isn't a game that I think will have numerous iterations in the future. You can put your life and soul into making a game like Splatoon and it could blow up in your face. Xenoblade will sell better than Splatoon. That's my guess. Please leave it at this, it isn't THAT deep. And you're beinh EXTREMELY hypocritic when you say that nobody understand my resoning because, you aren't everybody either. Before starting a dispute, relieve yourself of any bias. This is how good conversations can grow without tension.