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Miyamotoo on 28 June 2017
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NawaiNey said:
Miyamotoo said:

You don't know what are you talking, no its not average game, its something new, great, and fun, and sales and popularity of game proves that, preorders of Splatoon 2 also proves that, also fact that people were saying for Splatoon that's one of best game and best new IP this gen, even before this thread, proves that. Main reason why game has 81 metacritic score is because game had very small amount of content on launch, but only few months after launch game had double of launch content.

And like I wrote, Splatoon 2 will be even much more popular because it will be on platform that will have much higher instal base, Splatoon 2 currently dominating on Japanese pre order list of games.

The only people saying any of that are hardcore nintendo fans. Stop making excuses, the game is strictly average and if it were on a Playstation or Xbox it would've been drowned out by dozens of better titles and no one would even remember it, but since Wii U owners had like 10 games worth playing it's considered great. 

That isn't true, that was said buy most of people that actually played Splatoon. I don't make any excuses, I gave you plenty of clear facts that you keep ignoring and keep saying its average game. Again, Wii U had more than 10 good games, but Splatoon is one of best selling and one of most popular Wii U games, why!? Do you realise that Splatoon sold just little less than Smash Bros 4!? Why now Splatoon2 has such incredible strong pre orders in Japan!?

Also Splatoon won "Best Multiplayer" and "Best Shooter" game awards for from The Game Awards 2015, "Best Family Game" award from Golden Joystick Awards, "Best Third-Person Shooter" award from GameTrailers' Best of 2015 Awards, "Best Competitive Multiplayer" and "Best Shooter" awards from IGN's Best of 2015, "Game of the Year" award from 2016 Japan Game Awards...average game doesn't get this kinds of awards.

 

NawaiNey said:
John19 said:

Maybe Splatoon is actually a great, fun, creative new game that you could sink hours and hours into? I mean, the game had to have done something right if it sold almost 5 million units, almost on par with Smash Bros.

Yes it did do something right, it released on a console that has very few games worth playing. And almost no multiplayer shooters to choose from.

Wii U had two CoDs, and they bombed hard on Wii U.

 

LethalP said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

Splatoon has outsold Horizon and blew it's attach rate away. If anything, there's a Sony bias.

Splatoon was bundled with every other WiiU, of course it had a good attach rate. And I doubt Splatoon will have sold more than Horizon by the end of it.

Onother lie, Splatoon had great sales even before bundles, Splatoon was launched in May 2015. so 2.5 years after Wii U launch when Wii U had 9.5m sold consoles (later managed to sell just 4m more), and start receiving Splatoon bundles only monts after Splatoon launch, and of course there were other bundles along side Splatoon bundle, MK8 bundle, SM3DW bundle, NSMBU bundle, Nintendo Land bundle, Smash Bros bundle...Splatoon in less than month after launch sold 1.1m.

Wii U is dead for quiet time now so Horizon will sell more than Splatoon 1, but Splatoon 2 will most likly sell more than Horizon.

 

LethalP said:
This forum has a weird Nintendo bias, most places wouldn't even dream of putting Splatoon in the same ballpark as Bloodborne or Nioh. Nintendo haven't had a truly great new IP since Xenoblade. 

Actually on lots gaming sites you will see people regularly mention Splatoon like one of bests IPs this gen, but from some reason you dont want to see that. Splatoon is bigger and more popular new IP than Bloodborne and Nioh, Splatoon sold better than both those games combine. Speaking about Xenoblade IP, Splatoon sold around 5x better than Xenoblade 2 on Wii U, that alone tells you how much popular Splatoon is.