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Pineapple on 11 April 2012
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Mnementh said:
Pineapple said:

It's selling absolutely horribly. Say it manages a million. That's optimistic at this point.

For a Nintendo-developed game, that's simply horrible. The only Nintendo games to sell that little on the DS were Metroid Prime: Hunters, Golden Sun 3, the Star Fox game, some Spin-off Kirbies, and the Intelligent Systems games. Those games were the ones that are either misses or incredibly niche, and some might even beat a million with missing data. If you compare it to the Wii Nintendo games, it looks even worse.


It did by far better than Tekken. Same platform, tekken started a little earlier and has the bigger name. I wouldn't compare KI with DS-games yet, the DS has a much bigger install-base.

The DS didn't have a far larger user-base when it started out, though. Quite a few on Nintendo's DS games launched before it reached the 3DS numbers.

Performing better than the second Tekken game to be on a Nintendo platform isn't that impressive either. Especially considering that the game is quite sub-par.

I obviously can't be certain of this, but considering that KI seems to have relatively high production costs (for a Nintendo game, at least), it's entirely possible that no Nintendo developed game has ever had higher production costs and sold less than Kid Icarus is going to. Its only chance of that not being the case is managing to outsell Metroid: Other M, which currently sits at 1.07 million.