It released on a very small install base. We shouldn't be expecting it to have legs like Mario Kart, but I think that it could sell at least 2.5 million over the course of the system's lifetime.

Sales for the game are actually impressive imo.

I wonder if Kotaku's own members are nailing the writer to the cross right now? Like others here, I avoid that site. Don't even give them a click here or there. They get nothing, and deserve it.

The game just doesn't have enough content to keep people playing it.

ARMS LEGS are good.... it will sell 2 mil by year end for sure!

This is exactly why I ignore Kotaku. Nothing good comes from that site.

I'm pretty sure the sole reason to write such an article is just to make an arms/legs pun.

I like every Nintendo game and even I didn't buy it after playing the demo. Too one dimensional.

So they make a whole article on how bad Arms is doing because someone read July instead of June? Oh well, Nintendo is always doomed.

I'll get Arms either when it drops in price (probably never since Nintendo), or when it gets a proper single player mode (sequel, probably).

I had rather hoped Kotaku would finally go the way of the dodo...

That's a terribly researched article. ARMS may end up not catching on long-term, but it's definitely too early to determine that for the following reasons:

1. We don't have proper sales info for the past month
2. The enormous distraction that is Splatoon 2 will undoubtedly take the spotlight off of ARMS for some time
3. Splatoon also took some time to become a real sensation, except it did that in the midst of a software drought.

If Nintendo keeps supporting ARMS with content updates and including it in its advertisements/show floor competitions, then it can certainly prove to have "legs" in the coming year.