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potato_hamster on 25 June 2015
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johnlucas said:
potato_hamster said:


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).


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

You do realize that posts such as the one I'm responding to is why no one takes you seriously, right? Pretty much the only reason people check out your posts and threads to see how you've managed to make even more ridiculous predictions and statements.

For your numbers to be anywhere close (within 250K, and even that's stretching the definition of "close"), digital sales would have to be at least equal, if not higher than phyical copy sales. If such thing actually happened, it would exceed all previous physical/digital sales ratios for the first week on the Wii U by 1000%. Thats right. The digital sales would have to be 10 times higher in its first week than any other Wii U game on the planet. I'm not even sure if any console game's digital copy has ever sold even 30% of physical copies in first week sales ever. If you want to pretend this is not only feasible, but likely, then you better be prepared to lose the remnants of credibility you have left.

And while I agree that it's "technically possible", it's about as likely as you one day becoming the President of Nintendo, because that's "technically possible" as well. You and I both know that will never happen despite what wishful thinking you might have. Then again, such chances increase every day as sales for Nintendo hardware continue to plummet.

But don't fret, I'm sure Sony and Microsoft will be exiting the console market any day now (as you predicted), stop selling their consoles in any capacity, causing third parties to flock to Nintendo and the Wii U (as you predicted), and causing Wii U sales to sky rocket to a point where it sells over 200 million consoles life time (as you predicted).

Also, how about that bet I proposed? Still no answer? It's hard to believe that someone who believes what they say so much won't take a bet that's clearly in their favor (only if you actually believe what you say)to get rid of one of their major detractors forever. You don't want to be percieved as someone who does not stand by their words do you?