Nintendo Games Need To Sell 2 Million On Average To Be Profitable

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DivinePaladin said:

outlawauron said:

Splatoon's budget was huge though. Nintendo has spent so much money on marketing for the game alone, it's probably 2x the amount paid out during development.

Even with a marketing budget that tripled the overall budget Splatoon likely didn't need 2 million. Or perhaps more fittingly put, Nintendo knew before it shelled out for marketing that the game was going to perform well, so it doubled down. Not that that detracts from your point or anything of course. 

 

Splatoon had such a paltry development budget even after all the extra maps and such are accounted for, people are starting to forget that. Remember this was a game that was claimed to sell as well as W101 because of how little content it had. 

Remember that that was one user on VGC. It baffles me how people have managed to revise history to make it out like everyone expected it to sell TW101 numbers just because Gergroy said it once.