Splatoon 2 sells 671k first week in Japan

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vivster said:

Faelco said:

Not really surprising since it is the reading of スプラトゥーン2 :P

Still pitiful from google to know to suppress the u's and make oo out of u-- but not use L instead of R.

Maybe it's because the former two are much mre hard rules, while the r/l thing depends on a case by case basis, especially with romanizations. 'Spratoon' needs to be Splatoon but 'Maria' (in most cases) needs to be 'Maria'.

StuOhQ said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

"software lower than we thought"

What?

Maybe I'm just dumb and should follower Japan closer but 671k in one country not including eshop sales(just cards) is an insane amount, especially for one country like Japan.

This is such good news!

 

That's what I was thinking. >600k in Japan is phenomenal. Splatoon 2 could well be over 1.5M WW already. Big win for Nintendo. 

Switch numbers should have been higher. They basically just transitioned ~15k of the 40k they were shipping before MK8D from the late June/early July period to artificially boost numbers this week. Nintendo could have just shipped 40k per week to Japan and forgone the charade that they actually "bumped up" supply for the month. 

Get ready for a drought next week, followed by 25k until Monster Hunter XX, and then a "surprise" 75k for that launch. 

Sadly I think you're right....I imagine most of those units were put into Splatoon 2 bundles, but still. They'd have sold through all of ther stock regardless.