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Splatoon at > 1,000,000 lifetime in Japan?

Yes. 96 72.73%
 
nope. 36 27.27%
 
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KO-Punch on 26 June 2015

It can and probably will.



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ihatefatkatz on 26 June 2015

Yes, it will do it, bookmark my comment



KO-Punch on 26 June 2015
Mr.Playstation said:

I don't think so. MK8 just barely made it over the 1 million mark recently and that's with a 300K opening week which is around 181K greater than Splatoons opening week. This fact together with the fact that the WII U has only around 2 years left as Nintendo's main console, Splatoon will have a hard time reaching 1 million in Japan.

 

If it actually doesn't make it to 1 million, it will definitely be close though ( 850K+ )

Take off your hater gogles. Splatoon sold more than mario kart 8 for week 3 and beyond. it's not hard to cross the 1 million mark if it keeps even half the current legs.



Samus Aran on 26 June 2015

Well, it has better legs apparently, so it's possible.



bunchanumbers on 26 June 2015
Jranation said:
If the manga of it sells very well, and gets an anime adaptation, then maybe. And if gets more content + dlc costumes from popular anime/idols or anything in particular, then maybe. But those legs are looking GOOD!


ooh! Good point. If the Manga takes off and it gets the anime treatment plus some merchandising it could become something of a cultural icon over there. If it takes off in Japan they need to bring it over to the states. The show will most likely sell well. Then slap in some Splatoon branded super soakers and just like that you got longer legs than a super model.



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Paatar on 26 June 2015
Skullwaker said:
Ryng_Tolu said:
The reason of the super Mario Kart sales, like the other Nintendo games, is the legs. The first week can be big, but usually nothing of extreme.

Splatoon as for now, in term of legs, is doing better than Mario Kart, and is A FACT.

Well after that, i don't think will sell more than Mario Kart 8, but yeah, 1 million seem likely. Minimum 800k.

Oh, I get that, believe me. I just wanted to point out that technically Splatoon isn't doing better in terms of totals. In terms of legs, it is outperforming MK8 though.

800k-1m seems possible to me. It's funny that just a few months ago, many believed that that could be the WW LT sales of the game. 

By the way, I accidentally answered no in the poll.

Well yeah Mario Kart 8 has been out since last year.

 

During the same timeframe though, Splatoon is selling better than Mario Kart 8.



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tak13 on 26 June 2015

Very possible!That crazy thing keeps selling out,50k in its 4th week,and very low slowing down rate,it will surpass 500k(with digital sales included) by the end of july!Nothing stops that train,it's astounding!
I expect a baseline similar to Mario kart's 8 baseline in that time frame,which had some inflated weeks from game releases that boosted wii u and resulted to that people purchasing Mario kart 8 too,I refer to hyrule warrior release,in that week Mario kart 8 jumped from 12k to 29k without the existence of a Mario kart 8 bundle,which means that people who hadn't wii u and acquired it in the week of release of Hyrule warriors,bought MK8 too,so something similar can happen to splatoon by the release of a game which will push hardware sales(Mario kart 8 bundle which released in mid november,now includes splatoon,so there is a splatoon bundle.)
Ergo,a 8k-16kish weekly sales(if the legs will continue to be there...You never know...)from August to November,with which goes to 628k-776k by the end of November and with the spikes of holidays(December),it will be near 1m(at least 800k) or reach it...



Ryng on 26 June 2015

Ok.
Let's predict 1.2 million... just because i'm octimist.



LipeJJ on 26 June 2015

It's possible and I think it will make it! (NA: 1.5m / Japan: 1.1m / EU: 600k / RoW: 150k). :P



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

TechnoHobbit on 26 June 2015

I'm going to say yes. Japan seems to love Splatoon right now.



Bets:

1. If the Wii U sells closer to 10 million LTD by 1/3/2015 I win. If it sells closer to 9.5 million LTD by 1/3/2015 OfficerRaichu15 wins (winner gets 2 weeks of avatar control)--Lost.