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JWeinCom on 25 January 2015
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Samus Aran said:
JWeinCom said:

OVer one million.  Epic Yarn was over 2, Superstar Ultra closer to 3, Return over 1.5, 3D at 1.3 and climbing w/o digital (with 190,000 coming from Europe, so I guess you don't all hate him).  Consistently outsells franchises like Fire Emblem Metroid, F-Zero, and Star Fox.  Aside from Mario, Zelda, maybe Donkey Kong, mainline Pokemon, and Animal Crossing, it sells better than pretty much anything else Nintendo does.  

Return to Dreamland is over 80% on gamerankings.  And it gets high points cause it's a fun game.  User reviews bear that out.  Of course, the other games are appropriately scored better, cause they are better.  

One game per year is not a whole lot compared to most Nintendo franchises.  It's more than things like F-Zero, Metroid, Fire Emblem, Pikmin, etc, but that's cause it sells better than those.  :)

No one uses Gameranking lol. Besides Mario and Pokémon, Nintendo doesn't do yearly games for any franchise. Every Nintendo game has high user scores, even the bad ones.

Kirby will never reach those sales again. Kirby and the Rainbow curse will tank hard.

Latest Fire Emblem sold over 1.5 million as well. MP3 sold around 1.9M.

A new game made by HAL could sell more than Kirby, I'm sure of it. We'll see with Rainbow Curse.


Whether you use gamerankings or metacritic, Kirby's last five games were all above 75, and all but one above 80.  So good reviews either way you try to spin it.  VGC firures have Prime 3 at 1.9 million, which is less than Epic Yarn at over two million.  

Dunno why you're saying Kirby won't reach those sales again when Triple Deluxe is doing very well.  When you align the launches in all regions, it's selling better than Awakening, so it should settle somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million.  Rainbow Curse will probably sell about as well as most first party games are selling for Wii U, so somewhere around 750k and 1 million.  More importantly it will be cute and cuddly and fun.