Nintendo UK Planning Massive Marketing Push For Splatoon Rivaling Mario Kart

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bonzobanana said:

I don't think the original Xenoblade had enough fans and it was a fairly low seller at least outside Japan but haven't checked the figures. That isn't really my  point though about Xenoblade X, it's the fact the game looks technically impressive when many wii u games before it have done huge damage to its reputation as good tech. The game looks impressive and gives the wii u more tech credibility.  Splatoon looks the complete opposite, it does not look technically impressive and looks like something that could be achieved on even humble hardware, even the original wii. In fact if they had released it for that format as well I'm sure it would have done huge numbers. Xenoblade X looks like an epic experience with a lot to see and do but Splatoon looks like a casual bit of fun.

Funnily enough, Japan was where Xenoblade 1 sold the worst; 160k there versus 420k in North America and 250k in Europe.

I do agree that XCX has the potential to help Wii U's street cred though, as the kind of epic, "hardcore" exclusive the system has too few of.

Splatoon on the original Wii though? I don't think 88MB of RAM would be sufficient to record every individual splatter of paint across the entire map.