| midrange said: @Miyamotoo The reviews as I conceded were solid. But there is no denying the fact the the most recent well known and most talked about ip are either the ones that have very high scores (bloodborne, the last of us) or have an insane budget or marketing team (destiny, titanfall, evolve). So far, splatoon has neither. How well this game sells upon launch does not really say much. As I recall, pikmin 3 also sold out its shipment early on, but later Iwata himself admitted that Nintendo was not pleased with the sales. Besides, Xenoblade also had a really good Japan launch, but the following weeks was selling less than 10k. I believe splatoon will sell 300k-400k first week, 600k-650k first month and 800k-900k lifetime. It will have a good launch (due to wii u owners not having anything for the first 9 months of this year besides mario party), but splatoon will not have good legs (again due to the notion that splatoon looks like an indie game, is marketed heavily towards kids, and has less content than most other games) |
That level of splash are causing only games with blood, violence and realistic graphics. For game that dont have blood, violence and realistic graphics, I think Splatoon cause very good splash.
It does matter how game is sells on launch, Pikmin 3 was sold around 120k first week, Xenoblade was sold around 95k first week, and for Splatoon we know it sold around 125k first day.
Also, Splatoon targeting much wider audence than games like Pikmin 3 and Xenoblade. Splatoon is game for everyone, from 5-95 and why Nintendo is targeting Mario Kart and Smash audience with very strong marketing.
You think it will sell 300-400k in first week, but we already know that in Japan is probably around 150k, so you think for rest of world will sell only 150-250k!?
Splatoon will have very good legs because of free content and marketing that goes with it. And no, Splatoon don't look like Indie game, especially to people that played Test Demo or know more informations about game like a Wii U owners.
Splatoon easily could reach 2m at end of year.
