splatoon or planys vs zombies ?

[Goodnightmoon]

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

Nah, marketing is an excuse, of course Splatoon had a big marketing and that help it to have great sales at first (that does not justify the fact that the game has epic legs though) . But even when Nintendo does a big marketing campaign is still far from other companies campaigns, specially EA, Splatoon marketing was nothing close to any of the games you mention there, and you forget that Plants VS Zombies had a ton of marketing too, I saw adds in a lot of places, like happens with every single EA game on consoles, I haven´t seen a single Splatoon add in my country anywhere. Probably splatoon and PvZ had a very similar marketing, and even if Splatoon had a slighty bigger one, is still a new Ip on a console with Dreamcast level of sales VS a popular Ip with +200m userbase to sell the game, yet Splatoon wins here, and it does for a reason.