It has barely 53,000 preorders with 8 weeks to go. If it tops a million it will be because of long legs. It might benefit in sales if the Wii U has a long period without many games into 2014. But, judging by the gamecube sales I say no reason to believe it sales will grow, or sell many consoles.
| Boutros said: I meant to say that there are other Wii U games from Nintendo to steal Pikmin 3's spotlight (mainly Super Mario 3D World which Nintendo is going to prioritize this Holiday). |
oh I see. Let's wait and see, so.
| chocoloco said: It has barely 53,000 preorders with 8 weeks to go. If it tops a million it will be because of long legs. It might benefit in sales if the Wii U has a long period without many games into 2014. But, judging by the gamecube sales I say no reason to believe it sales will grow, or sell many consoles. |
53k only in USA and USA is not the whole world
| chocoloco said: It has barely 53,000 preorders with 8 weeks to go. If it tops a million it will be because of long legs. It might benefit in sales if the Wii U has a long period without many games into 2014. But, judging by the gamecube sales I say no reason to believe it sales will grow, or sell many consoles. |
I see it selling 150K week 1 in America and 300K first week Worldwide.
The problem with Pikmin is that it;s been a decade since we last had an entry in the series. I remember when Pikmin 2 was originally slated for holiday 2003 but got pushed into 2004... can't tell you how many customers had asked me about Pikmin 2 and when it was coming out during the holiday season at the store I worked at. Nintendo killed any momentum the series had during the GC generation, and then when it seemed like Pikmin 3 on the Wii would be a no brainer considering the Wii's unique control scheme tailor-made for a game like Pikmin and the fact that the Wii was the best selling console in Nintendo's history, Nintendo left the game on the shelf in favor of things like Wii Music... yay.
Pikmin 3 won't sell well at all, one because it's on a console severely lacking in sales and support, and two because many of the people who were interested in the series back during the GC days just don't think it's worth spending $300-$350 on a new console just to be able to play it.
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| NightDragon83 said: The problem with Pikmin is that it;s been a decade since we last had an entry in the series. I remember when Pikmin 2 was originally slated for holiday 2003 but got pushed into 2004... can't tell you how many customers had asked me about Pikmin 2 and when it was coming out during the holiday season at the store I worked at. Nintendo killed any momentum the series had during the GC generation, and then when it seemed like Pikmin 3 on the Wii would be a no brainer considering the Wii's unique control scheme tailor-made for a game like Pikmin and the fact that the Wii was the best selling console in Nintendo's history, Nintendo left the game on the shelf in favor of things like Wii Music... yay. |
I see your point but at the time Pikmin (1) launched, the GC had really low sales too. Plus, it had to compete with Luigi's Mansion & Melee. Pikmin 3 will be the only new Wii U game for about a month. I still think it can outsell both GC games but we'll see.
I think it will sell similar to the previous installments, so in the 1.5-2million range
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Cold-Flipper said:
I see it selling 150K week 1 in America and 300K first week Worldwide. |
That is a pretty high console sold to buying attatch ratio. If that happens it would be impressive. I still doubt it. I will stick with the belief this will have legs to get it sales and not be very big first week.
the marketing, hype, and hopefully quality will benefit sales just like FE:A
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curl-6 said:
They won't. Nintendo are awful at marketing any of their games besides Mario and Donkey Kong. Hell, they're awful at marketing just about anything these days. They should do marketing pushes for games like Pikmin 3, Wonderful 101, Bayonetta 2, and X, but I'm sure they won't. |
Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem Awakening were marketed incredibly well - especially on the internet. Kid Icarus and Luigi's Mansion also had notable marketing campaigns -
Nintendo is getting better at it at least
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