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bonzobanana on 24 May 2015
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curl-6 said:
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.

Those japanese figures actually look quite respectable when you consider its a third of the population of the USA and there are more wii's per head in the USA too. Europe seems to be lagging though although the wii wasn't as successful over here as the USA. Sales figures seem low though when you consider how much effort Monolith put in. Hugely impressive for a console with only a 11gflops gpu. The original xbox has a gpu of over 20 gflops and I have never seen graphics on that console of the same scope even though it slaughters the wii in almost every other comparable game and has a range of software not even possible on wii due to lack of a hard drive for streaming in new data on the fly. 

I don't think the wii would have difficulty in recording all splatters they would just simplify it a bit I guess if they had to but I'm not sure they would have to. Splatoon isn't a large game, only 1.8GB, it would almost fit on a gamecube disc. The maps look fairly small. On face value it doesn't look like a technically challenging game and a wii version seems relatively easy. I mean if the wii can do xenoblade chronicles it can definitely do a version of splatoon.