Was Splatoon and it's sales the biggest story of 2015?

[Mr Puggsly]

Goodnightmoon said:

OneKartVita said:

 

Again it's not the fault of Psyonix that they released it on much more appealing platforms. Splatoon may be a popular shooter but rocket league created a new genre.  Soccer with cars.  That's a much bigger achievement than making a shooter.  

Splatoon reinvented the most popular genre of videogames after a decade of no innovations on it. Is way more than just another shooter.

I'm not sure if I would call to mix 2 concepts widely used on videgames a new genre, maybe a subgenre, and while it is true that RL is overall a very original game... it didnt really created anything since RL is the sequel of a 2008 game with identic concept.

But the thing is, would Rocket League have sold more than Splatoon being a 40 - 60$ game on a console with 10 milions of users?

Of course not. And with this I'm not downplaying the success of Rocket League, is huge and mostly deserved, I just think the IP potential of Splatoon is way higher.

Splatoon disnt reinvent the shooter. CoD wont suddenly become a Splatoon clone. Splatoon is just a unique shooter. Saying shooters havent seen any innovation in a decade is just dumb.

I think it would have been bigger news if a mature 3rd party game sold millions on Wii U.

Splatoon is a Nintendo game doing really well on a Nintendo console. Thats par for the course. Furthermore, alot of Splatoon sales were bundles. Less bundles, less boasting.

An indie company making a hit with a small budget is bigger news than Nintendo having a multi million seller. Rocket League will likely become the more profitable of the two if it isnt already