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Nuvendil on 18 May 2018
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Megiddo said:
Nuvendil said:

Another game not being brought up is Yokai Watch 4. It will do little in the States but will be big for Japan. How big, we'll have to see.

Didn't YW3 massively underperform in Japan?

Also for some who don't remember, the Wii U had Smash Bros. It's not the end-all-be-all system seller, especially if the NSW Smash Bros is just a port with a bit of new content.

And the 3DS had Smash and it did very well for it.  And let's not pretend that Smash on 3DS didn't hinder the system selling power of it on the Wii U, ESPECIALLY in Japan.  And of course, the Wii U's marketing was a dumpster fire when they could be bothered to promote at all and was an undesired piece of hardware.  We've seen multiple examples already of how the Wii U demonstrably held back games.  And current evidence points to Smash being new, not a port, so that's what I'm going on.

And Yokai Watch 3 still sold close to 1.5 mil in Japan and had a good impact on system sales.  Like I said, we'll have to see how strong the impact is.  Could be just pretty good or could be very good.  Depends on how much Level-5 pours into making this game a strong revival for the franchise.