midrange said:
Alkibiádēs said:
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.
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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
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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).
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There were, and still are, many splatoon ads that went on TV.
No one is spinning anything. Splatoon has a huge amount of marketing going for it that plants vs zombies did not have. If you want to ignore this and say "splatoon has more sales so its better" then go ahead. May as well claim that cod is the best game of the generation while your at it
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Except there aren't many ads. I barely see any Nintendo ads on tv outside of the holidays and usually it's the 3DS. I've never seen a Wii U ad and most people here don't even know what a Wii U is. In fact, I'm pretty sure Nintendo stopped selling games in my country all together, I need to import everything. And my friends outside of Greece have similar stories (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy Netherlands, etc.) about how poorly Nintendo's marketing is for the Wii U.
PvZ: GW wouldn't reach Splatoon sales no matter the marketing because it's just another shooter but with a PvZ skin. It's also online only. Keep spinning, I'm sure you were one of the people who thought it would bomb. Got to love hindsight. Meanwhile I can get PvZ: GW in pretty much any gaming store for €5. Good luck finding a Wii U game here!
