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TheLastStarFighter on 27 August 2013

Interesting. The game does look very good to me.



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milkyjoe on 27 August 2013
outlawauron said:
Mr Khan said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
They are lucky nintendo is picking up the tab because this game is looking like a sales nightmare.The game wouldve been better off multiplat. Its never smart to commission platinum games titles at the.beginning of a generation to sell systems.

Nobody said Nintendo planned this as a killer app. As was said elsewhere, Nintendo clearly didn't think Wii U would perform poorly, and to them this was just another game.

I hardly doubt it would have been better off multiplat, though. It's just a weird game, however you slice it.

It *might* have done better as a 3DS or Vita game.

I think that you'd admit the game would have done much better as Wii U/PS3/360. They might have been able to pool together 500k before the year's end. It certainly would have sold better in Japan at least.

It's a Nintendo IP, guys. Any talk of anything non-Nintendo is just pointless.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 27 August 2013
Mr Khan said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
They are lucky nintendo is picking up the tab because this game is looking like a sales nightmare.The game wouldve been better off multiplat. Its never smart to commission platinum games titles at the.beginning of a generation to sell systems.

Nobody said Nintendo planned this as a killer app. As was said elsewhere, Nintendo clearly didn't think Wii U would perform poorly, and to them this was just another game.

I hardly doubt it would have been better off multiplat, though. It's just a weird game, however you slice it.

It *might* have done better as a 3DS or Vita  game.

Any game platinum games makes should be multiplat. They are a niche brand that lacks the commercial prowess to birth a mega hit. Kamiya makes relatively short games that havent hit a truly commercial spot since the first DMC.



Moren on 27 August 2013
milkyjoe said:

It's a Nintendo IP, guys. Any talk of anything non-Nintendo is just pointless.

You'd sooner convince Sheldon Cooper that he is a worthless physicist.



FromDK on 27 August 2013

The sale is only for two days,,

And remember,,has the eshop too,,

i predict minimum 3 million sold before 2015,,



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Mnementh on 27 August 2013
FromDK said:
The sale is only for two days,,

And remember,,has the eshop too,,

i predict minimum 3 million sold before 2015,,

Whenever a game did outsell the first two days after launch in the following weeks? That's just not happening.

And remember, each other game has eShop too. There is no indication, that it shouldn't have the same percentage of digital sales as other games.

3 million is total out of reach for such a niche game. One million would be an extraordinary success. I think Platinum and Nintendo had hoped for max 500K and lowered this as the sales of the WiiU turned out to be slow.



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darkknightkryta on 27 August 2013
Mnementh said:
FromDK said:
The sale is only for two days,,

And remember,,has the eshop too,,

i predict minimum 3 million sold before 2015,,

Whenever a game did outsell the first two days after launch in the following weeks? That's just not happening.

And remember, each other game has eShop too. There is no indication, that it shouldn't have the same percentage of digital sales as other games.

3 million is total out of reach for such a niche game. One million would be an extraordinary success. I think Platinum and Nintendo had hoped for max 500K and lowered this as the sales of the WiiU turned out to be slow.

Then why even fund it then?  The game has a bigger budget than Bayonetta's, yet Sega couldn't make any money off of it (Bayonetta had decent sales to begin with), 500k isn't going to make anyone money, it'd most likely need more than a million for that.  Unless Nintendo planned from the start to loose money?



NolSinkler on 27 August 2013

Course it's gonna flop.



JGarret on 27 August 2013
FromDK said:
The sale is only for two days,,

And remember,,has the eshop too,,

i predict minimum 3 million sold before 2015,,


On the internet, it´s hard to tell whether a person is serious or joking...if you´re being serious about that prediction...not happening, 0% chance of such a niche game selling 3 million.



TomaTito on 27 August 2013
Mnementh said:

Whenever a game did outsell the first two days after launch in the following weeks? That's just not happening.

There are few games who are able to acomplish that, of my head Just Dance was one of them last gen: http://www.vgchartz.com/game/40053/just-dance/Europe/

I'm sure there are a few more.



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