potato_hamster said:
johnlucas said:
Well well. 
Strong Start For Nintendo's Wii U Shooter Splatoon
"Nintendo has announced its quirky team-based shooter Splatoon has sold over one million copies worldwide.
According to official figures provided by the platform holder, more than 230,000 physical and digital copies were sold in Europe, while the Japanese market accounted for 360,000.
476,000 copies were sold in North America, while Australians purchased 20,000 units."
Now let's see what VGChartz puts together once they finally catch up the software charts to the current week. We're still in April on these charts I see.
People out here trying to downplay this game with those bogus UK numbers as if UK's the entirety of Europe.
It seems that the UK 20,000 people were pawning off on me was actually in Australia.
I told you that you won't know the full figures until Nintendo releases the digital data.
Digital sales are always a question mark that can only be answered by the companies themselves.
The existence of digital sales actually hampers sales trackers like NPD AND VGChartz.
They're only getting partial pictures.
It won't even bother me if Splatoon didn't make a million in its 1st 4 days.
I believed in the power of this game & knew it had selling power ever since E3 2014.
If it only got 750,000 out of 1,000,000, that's good enough for me.
It'll leave a sour taste in the naysayers' mouths to brag that Splatoon only missed it by a quarter million. 
Either way you cut it tbone got it right. 
John Lucas
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What do you mean IF? Splatoon did under 500K First week. This is a know fact. The game has been out for nearly a month, and in that month it sold a million copies. In the first four days? Under 500K, likely under 350K. But of course you think you're only off by 25% instead of the reality of 50-65% based on literally nothing but wishful thinking.
You keep actling like you're some kind of video game Nostradamus, predicting the end of pretty much every major player in the video game business, except of course Nintendo, which will rise from the ashes and start selling at the rate of all their current competitors combined. Meanwhile, in reality, Nintendo themselkves are predicting looking at the lowest period for Nintendo hardware sales since they started making both a handheld + console (1989).
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So you had inside information on their digital numbers, is that right?
Physical sales trackers INCLUDING THIS ONE have been compromised by the existence of digital sales.
All you can track is the physical. You don't know the digital. You CAN'T know until the company divulges the information.
Quit acting like you know so much. You DON'T know because you don't have access to all the information.
And spare me your extrapolations on digital because you simply won't know which game may have greater or lesser digital sales totals.
I'm now waiting for VGChartz to finally update these software sales numbers to see how close I got.
They shouldn't be stuck in April while we're in June for goodness sake!
From these numbers it seems once again that North America is the strongest sales region overall while Japan is strongest by percentage of population.
These figures fly right in the face of those comparatively small American numbers you tried to pawn off on me before.
I have a strong feeling that it EASILY cleared 500,000 digital & physical worldwide in the first 4 days AT LEAST.
I just want to see exactly how close to that million it got in that amount of time.
Maybe VGChartz will get around to the May numbers by August. We'll see.
John Lucas
