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JWeinCom on 12 July 2015

I thought it would flop... but i bought a copy... do I have to apologize?



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Ultrashroomz on 12 July 2015

It did A LOT better than i expected, that's for sure.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

Frogger on 12 July 2015

It still is a $20 eshop game, and it should have flopped. No one apologizes when COD sells well, and it's 20 times the game Splatoon is.



MoHasanie on 12 July 2015

Yup. I was the ones that expected it to flop. But then in my defense, I wasn't expecting Nintendo to advetise it that much. 



    

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generic-user-1 on 12 July 2015
spemanig said:
It still is a $20 eshop game, and it should have flopped. No one apologizes when COD sells well, and it's 20 times the game Splatoon is.

CoD is a MoH clone with worse writting than transformers and a mp full of noobs that fucked with my mom(atleast they say so).

the sales of CoD let me  lse faith in the human race...



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Rustuv on 12 July 2015
spurgeonryan said:
Buy a Wii U for Splatoon alone?


Hey people bought the Xbox for just Halo back in the day.



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Eddie_Raja on 12 July 2015

Better yet how about someone explains to me why the game did so well. My guess is Wii U owners were desperate for a new game. I mean if the third parties leave then what's left?



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

jonathanalis on 12 July 2015

Every gamedesing studio and school are praising splatoon(at least some i know). The game was very good for the industry.
but i think splatoon only dont worth a 300$ console. but along with xenoblade, zelda, DKCTF, bayo2, MK8 and smash.



jigokutamago on 12 July 2015
Eddie_Raja said:
Better yet how about someone explains to me why the game did so well. My guess is Wii U owners were desperate for a new game. I mean if the third parties leave then what's left?

Reason: The game is fun

 

Also actual marketing



SvennoJ on 12 July 2015
jigokutamago said:
SvennoJ said:
I was expecting a $40 or $50 physical release, instead it's $70 and doesn't even have split screen. It might be fun but not worth hearing my kids fight over who gets to play. Pass.

Teach them the valuable lesson of sharing.

We already have plenty of other stuff to teach them that. Know when to pick your battles, plus teaching them to play together nicely is more important imo. Always fun, huge Minecraft worlds and they're always right on top of eachother in the way. They're slowly learning to work together though, it's interesting to watch. Splatoon would have been fun for them, yet PvZ GW is still a hit. Except when they're fighting over kill stealing lol.
Nintendo dropped the ball by not including splitscreen.