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Mummelmann on 23 May 2015
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mZuzek said:
Mummelmann said:

Not all games will automatically have amazing legs just because they're made by Nintendo. Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze is one fairly recent example of this.

Are people expecting Splatoon to have Mario Kart legs? If so, I think we need to aim a little lower, games like Uncharted and Gran Turismo have legs that are just as impressive as most Nintendo titles (but not Mario Kart) and some Nintendo titles are practically amputees. This is not a rule set in stone and shouldn't be simply assumed by default.

That's funny because Tropical Freeze actually had pretty good legs. Also, it's very silly to think Splatoon won't, considering it will keep being updated and expanded constantly for 3 months after launch and it's a multiplayer-heavy title, which makes it replayable and gives it legs. Look, it's only natural that people will have different expectations for the game, but to think it won't have good legs, at least for a few months, is insane.


DK: Tropical Freeze does not have good legs, it has barely moved in 2015 and isn't even in the top 75 for our last full software list (from late March) while a title like Little Big Planet 3 finds its way to a 46th spot on the same list.

Why is it silly to think that Splatoon might not have the same good legs that many other Nintendo titles have? Are we talking short-term only? You mention a 3 month period.

Besides, having good legs "for a few months" is not exactly what neither I nor Ryng (I believe) was talking about, he mentions Nintendo legs, the kind that takes strides that last several years at their best, selling decently for a few months isn't any sort of excpetional feat for most titles, regardless of who made it.
You are completely free to think that my more careful and skeptical expectation is insane (although I never stated that the game can't sell pretty well for a shorter period of time, making this sort of a strawman) but I think that many people have insane expectations of it as well; I've seen quite a few stating that it will sell 2-3 million or perhaps even more lifetime, with the only supporting pieces of "evidence" for this being that "people loved the demo" and "it's great fun and make by Nintendo".

Look; I hope it sells great, I really do, I hate what the online and shooter scene has become over the course of the 7th generation, which was when I started seriously turning away from console gaming. But, I don't think it will sell great, and it's important to tell the difference. Should my more timid stance prove to be wrong; I would celebrate the fact along with them and be happy that something besides Call of Duty and Battlefield manages to move a significant number of units at long last.

PS: By "sell great", I mean more than 1-1.5 million.