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Mummelmann on 09 May 2015
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Samus Aran said:
Mummelmann said:

Good games do not automatically gain good sales, if sales potential was affected by quality alone, top 50 lists would look quite different today. Conversely; there are plenty of games with mediocre reviews that get massive sales, most of the later Call of Duty games are good examples of this.

Everyone with a little common sense would know Splatoon will easily outsell TW101.

- It's actually being advertised.

- It's not super niche like TW101.

- It has online multiplayer.

- It's made by Nintendo.

- It had an online demo before release.

- It had its own Nintendo Direct.

- There are Splatoon amiibo.

- There's a Wii U bundle with Splatoon.

- It's doing well on Amazon in the USA and Japan.


I think it will outsell the W101, but I think people are being incredibly unrealistic talking about 2 or 3 million lifetime.

That said; none of the above correlates with guaranteed great sales, and I still don't think it will perform great. But I do consider myself as someone possessing above average levels of common sense.
Do you believe it can sell 2-3 million? If so, is that based on your list above?

Only time will tell but I have yet to see or hear anything that suggests that this will be a huge seller and I continue to believe that Xenoblade will sell more lifetime.