UK software sales (Week ending 7/22/2017)

[Mnementh]

Green098 said:

Mnementh said:

Well, obviously with more than 4.5 million worldwide Splatoon isn't a flop. But UK? Well 177K. Tom Clancy topped it in a few weeks. GTAV outsold it more than 15 times. So yes, Splatoon is a flop in the UK and probably Splatoon 2 will be too. Still, UK seems to be of little indication towards worldwide success.

EDIT: A look further - Splatoon did double as much in other european countries: 316K in germany, > 400K in France. Both are much smaller markets for most games than the UK, including GTAV, Tom Clancy, Horizon etc. UK is special.

Splatoon 2 did sell 59% higher than the original in the UK which is certainly a good sign of the franchise being bigger this time around in the UK at least. The good legs and prehaps bundles, taking just the much higher first week sales into account as well as it's much smaller install base than even the Wii U at the time of release, I think it could outsell the original in the UK in almost it's first year.

So while I think it will still do much better in other European countries, I still think Splatoon has a fighting chance of at least doubling it's original UK sales, not all hope is lost just yet.

Yes, Splatton 2 does better in the UK (and the rest of the world) than the first entry. That doesn't change the fact, that UK is generally a bad market for Nintendo-games and looking at the sales of Splatoon (or other Nintendo-titles) you could conclude it flops, even if it sells strong outside the UK.