I will reiterate what everyone else here said and say that it was a great week for Splatoon and Wii U. It seems that shooters are a bit of an emerging genre and Japan, and Nintendo's Nintendo-esque shooter was an excellent way to seize on that opportunity.
There is more sobering news however for Nintendo. Whereas many other major Wii U games have maintained reasonable legs, XCX's sales have fallen off a cliff. For a game that almost certainly cost much more than most if not all of those other games and also took longer to make, this is pretty bad news for Monolith. Naturally, we'll have to wait and see how the game is received commercially in the West, especially since the original did much better in the west. But, if it fails to do so, I can easily see Monolith being moved to make much smaller, less financially risky projects -- or worse.
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