splatoon or planys vs zombies ?

[midrange]

Goodnightmoon said:

midrange said:

Are we really using the sales argument here? If so, would you agree that COD and battlefield are the best games of the generation? Would you say that the wii u is an utter piece of trash due to sales?

Sales are not indicative of quality at all, and even if they were, note that Nintendo literally spent tons of money marketing Splatoon whereas EA did not need to do that for pvz. Es has bigger games to push out and market

It is usually a bad argument, but here we have an ambitious spin off of an established franchise that almost everyone knows and that was released in several systems at the same time, against a completely new franchise that nobody knew released only on the lowest selling console of the gen. And yet is the latter the one outselling the first. That happened for some reson, like Splatoon being way more addictive and feeling way more fresh.

Way to ignore the marketing difference. Marketing plays a ridiculous role in how games get sales. Marketing properly is what gave the biggest games today (cod, destiny, gta v) their status

Splatoon, as weird as it may be, is Nintendo's biggest game this year behind super mario maker. They spent a huge amount of money marketing the crap out of this game. Considering EA has bigger franchises to market (FIFA, Battlefield, Battlefront, Need for speed, Dragon age), it makes sense that they put little money into marketing this game which resulted in fewer sales.

The sales argument is one of the worst in this case given how marketing is unevenly applied