Can Pikmin 3 take the series to better sales?

[Michael-5]

Cold-Flipper said:

007BondAgent said:
no, pikmin will always be a niche title, i'm not sure if till even reach 1m

judging from previous entries

I would have to disagree. Pikmin 1 & 2 both sold over 1 Million on the GC and Pikmin 2 was even pretty hard to find. It might be a niche series (for now) but it does have a loyal following.

it should do over 500K in Japan alone easy, possibly 1 Million if Wii U sales get better.

It's only looking to sell about 100k week 1 in Japan according to COMG pre-orders

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I see no reason to expect this game to sell better then Pikmin 1 or 2. It could do fairly well in North America, so because of strong sales outside of Japan, I could see the game breaking 2 million, but it's always going to be one of Nintendo's good, yet niche franchises. No different from Metroid or Fire Emblem.

Still, it could push hardware sales quite a bit. Had I not had Wii games to beat, Pikmin 3 would look like the first real reason to buy a WiiU.