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

[DivinePaladin]

bigtakilla said:

DivinePaladin said:
You have to consider by "average game" he's surely referring to the big budget titles here. Clearly something like Toad, HW, the Zelda remakes, or Splatoon don't need to kill to perform well. But something like Galaxy or mainline Zelda, with years in the pipeline and large teams, have to sell that, and always do. The only recent one I think would have missed the mark is Xenoblade X. And possibly DKCTF depending on the budget for that one.

Being the first one only crossed the million mark when it hit the 3DS as well, I think even if the game missed the mark they were pretty much expecting it.

You're referring to Xenoblade, correct?  That's the ony series besides HW in my post with a 3DS game, and HW sold like bonkers for a Warriors game even before Legends.

 

But yeah, I don't think they expected high sales for Xenoblade since at the time of release it was already clear the Wii U was a failed project, and a niche title on an even more niche system was not going to do well without bundling.  But the budget still clearly went into it as a higher-budget game, so I'd lump that in as one of the higher-budget titles even if it wasn't expected to sell like one.