splatoon or planys vs zombies ?

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midrange said:

Goodnightmoon said:

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

I have never seen a Splatoon ad on tv here. I love the hindsight, before Splatoon released everyone was sure it was going to bomb. Now you guys are trying to spin it as it was inevitable to sell over 3 million copies on the Wii U. Nintendo also has bigger franchises to market that didn't sell as well as Splatoon (Donkey Kong Country for starters).