If it can do well in the UK, one of Nintendo's weakest significant markets, it'll do just fine worldwide.
If it can do well in the UK, one of Nintendo's weakest significant markets, it'll do just fine worldwide.
222,031 copies sold in Japan week 1.
For comparison's sake: it is the second highest selling week 1 Kirby game behind Superstar Deluxe (262K) which went on to sell 1.19 million, Kirby Triple Deluxe sold 218K week 1 and went on to sell 800,000. In both cases, the userbase was significantly higher than Switch's current base, and the software prices significantly lower. So this Kirby game is by far the top for revenue.
For comparison's sake with games in a closer price range: Return to Dreamland did 135K week 1, and sold 790K total; Epic Yarn sold 93K and did 450K total (interesting enough, Epic Yarn was far more popular outside of Japan than Return to Dreamland).
While it's fun to see a prediction go WAY wrong, maybe we can change the title of the thread - since the original poster has already surrendered the point and we can actually use it to discuss Kirby's sales success instead of how it DIDN'T flop hard.
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curl-6 said: If it can do well in the UK, one of Nintendo's weakest significant markets, it'll do just fine worldwide. |
Not only have European markets not been historically super supportive of Nintendo, they've also never quite gotten behind Kirby with much enthusiasm...
So while this is hardly the news of the century, it is a pretty cool accomplishment for the series...
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Think it’s safe to say it’s not “flopping” at this stage.
What a sketchy thread.
OP predicts that Kirby will flop hard. Not just flop... but flop hard. Then goes on to say that it will sell less than 1 million. I wouldn't consider 1 million copies for a Kirby game as flopping, let alone flopping hard.
Also, this is just a terrible prediction anyways.
Less than a million? *scoffs.* Yeah, right... *sips coke*
Is anyone really surprised that this thread ended up being wrong?
OP should have learned by now that Nintendo games don't sell based on quality.
RolStoppable said:
You mean critical reception. |
Aren't they the same thing?
RolStoppable said:
Not at all. You don't need a very big sample to figure that critics commonly don't recognize quality or lack thereof. |
But I thought metacritic scores dictated how good a game is? Otherwise, what's the point of the score?
AngryLittleAlchemist said: Is anyone really surprised that this thread ended up being wrong? OP should have learned by now that Nintendo games don't sell based on quality. |
I'm not surprised. I even edited the OP a few days before Star Allies' release, but I guess people don't read that.
LuccaCardoso1 said:
I'm not surprised. I even edited the OP a few days before Star Allies' release, but I guess people don't read that. |
Uh... I actually did read the edit. Which is why I'm surprised that most people are holding it over your head. I was just using that to make a joke about Nintendo games.