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Lawlight on 13 October 2015
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Samus Aran said:
Lawlight said:
Samus Aran said:
Lawlight said:
People overblowing the Splatoon overhype well past its release date.

I think I speak for most Nintendo fans when I say we're fed up of you downplaying Splatoon. ;)

Also if people are still talking about Splatoon long past its release date, how was it overhyped then?


Well, it's people buying into their own hype. The game got decent/good reviews, nothing spectacular. Did decent sales, again, nothing spectacular (considering the marketing) but people called it a contender for gotg.

It's probably going to sell like 3 million copies on a console that won't reach 15M sales. And that for a NEW IP on a Nintendo console. How is that not spectacular? It's selling better than most of Sony's games on the PS4. It's going to outsell Little Big Planet 3, Driveclub, The Order 1866 and Infamous Second Son. On a console that's a commercial flop.

As for the reviews, the game came out with one third of the content it has now (and all the dlc was free) and it still scored 81% on metacritic. If it was reviewed as it is now it would have been 90%+. Although I'm not sure why anyone would care what a critic thinks. High metacritic scores sure didn' help games like Ico or Shadow of the Colossus. Metacritic is a very flawed system. A couple of review sites adjusted their Splatoon review from a 7 to a 9 after all the free dlc, but metacritic never changed it.

This is a game that people predicted would bomb like TW101 and that the online would be barren after a month. People like you. It's one of the best games released this year and it did something new, innovative and creative. You'll be hearing a lot more about this franchise in the future.


1. I don't think user base is relevant when not taking into consideration the releases on the system. 15M having to choose between 2 games for the game is very different from 25M users having to choose between dozens of games. 

2. New IP. So? Nintendo marketed the hell out of this game, especially to the younger audiences. It will outsell The Order 1886. Dunno about the others, certainly not Infamous:SS - all games which did not get anywhere near the marketing that Splatoon got (on top of releasing between multiple third party heavy hitters).

3. So, like Driveclub then? And no one said that there's a correlation between sales and metacritic.

4. No, it wouldn't have bombed like TW101 since Nintendo was really pushing the game.

5. Something new? It ripped off the concept of The Unfinished Swan and turned it into a TPS.

Ultimately, good on the game for selling 1.6M with heavy marketing and no competition.