| Michael-5 said: It's only looking to sell about 100k week 1 in Japan according to COMG pre-orders -- 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. |
100K seems like a pretty good start considering the low Wii U sales. Pikmin (1) debuted with similar #'s and sold over 500K in the end. Pikmin normally has decent longevity in Japan.
Another reason why I see potential in Pikmin is that unlike Metroid or Fire Emblem, Pikmin has that classic Nintendo charm. Metroid & FE get high reviews and are considered to be great high quality games but lack Nintendo style. (Seems to be why people like them) Pikmin has Nintendo written all over it.
| morenoingrato said: Actually, I'm afraid of the contrary. |
I don't see how that could possibly happen but it could. That would be sad...
