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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Can Splatoon Go on and Sell 3mil Lifetime? (Shipped+Digital) [Update: 2.42mil LTD, 80% There]

Mbolibombo said:
This one was quite the hilarious read =)

Yeah, went through the whole comment here in this tread and it is just glorious to see how much this game got underestimated.

3 month ago, 3million LT seemed preposterous to most, now it looks like this could even be lowballing by quite some extent if the game continues to have such butiful long tentactles over the next couple of month.



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Volterra_90 said:
I think it will surprise a lot of people. I don't think it could reach 3M but I'm hoping it could ship around 1.5M LT. But, when "Splatoon 2" launch (and I'm sure it will) it could be a potential system seller. Nintendo is trying to pull another Mario Kart, this time in the shooter territory, and I think they will suceed. Splatoon is the definition of "fun". I was so sad when the hour passed, I need more! :(

Well, I was far off, but not so overpessimistic as some people in this thread. W101 levels... Yeah, almost XDDD



Mbolibombo said:
This one was quite the hilarious read =)

Indeed. :)



Wow reading back through old Splatoon threads is funny as hell.



Wyrdness said:
Wow reading back through old Splatoon threads is funny as hell.


yeah, it won't sell a million!! :p



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It already sold 1.6 million in its first month! INSANE!!!!!



Pocky Lover Boy! 

Finally picked it up, ashamed it took me this long.



tbone51 said:
over halfway there in 33 days!!!


You do realize that it is now your oblighation, once the NX is released, to predict a high number that no one will believe and to have a thread like this months later proving everyone else is wrong!



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biglittlesps said:
tbone51 said:

 

Most of the titles you mentioned are for handheld where Nintendo is dominating so its easier to find success because of huge install base they have and market share and Wii sports is motionware title found success fot its motion features back then but failed with Wii U sports game. Captain toad is a familiar charecter milked in a budget indie game but not a fresh new IP entirely and not a AA scope game. Pikmin game times are very diferent to find success back hen which can proved with Pikmin 3 sales so even if they made that game now it wont sell like 2001 game.

You have to accept that times have chagned and these days new IPs to get success need a platform with install base, good marketing, excellent reviews and content that everyone expects (mostly online), otherwise it wont get success. For me Splatoon can sell average (LTD 500k min - 1m+ max in best case without bundles) as they already got issues in content and price ration so mostly reviews will be 75-80 due to that. 


Woaaaaaaaah!!!!!



I just realized how many Splatoon threads you've made, thine.

This will almost surely happen now.



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