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Forums - Nintendo - Pikmin 3 A Million Seller Already?! Has Over 132k In Digital Sales(US Alone), How Much Will It Sell Lifetime?

ktay95 on 28 July 2014
MoHasanie said:
ktay95 said:
Tamron said:
is it realy a sale if you give it away for free? hmm.

But it wasnt free, it cost the price of buying a new copy of Mario Kart 8 before "x" date. That probably helped pushed MK8 sales a bit, definitely counts. Its like saying console bundles dont count or buy 2 get 1 free sales at Gamestop dont count.

Do you think all those people that bought MK8, bought it for the promotion? 

Of course not but that dosent matter.



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tbone51 on 28 July 2014
Tamron said:
is it realy a sale if you give it away for free? hmm.


But it wasnt free, Nintendo didn't give everybody the game without charging you :) 



Tamron on 28 July 2014
ktay95 said:
Tamron said:
is it realy a sale if you give it away for free? hmm.

But it wasnt free, it cost the price of buying a new copy of Mario Kart 8 before "x" date. That probably helped pushed MK8 sales a bit, definitely counts. Its like saying console bundles dont count or buy 2 get 1 free sales at Gamestop dont count.


console bundles that are slightly more expensive count,  same price as gameless?  not so much. 

Buy ___ get one free promotions are temporarilly taking a hit on profit margins to move idle stock and/or encourage sales of items that are not on offer also. 

However,  you pick a 'free game'  and are given a digital copy,  you do not own a tangible,  physical copy,  and as no money has specifically changed hands for its aquisition,  its a grey area. 

 

if you take part in a buy___ get one free promotion in a store,  youre leaving with a tangible,  physical item,  it cannot be revoked,  removed or otherwise taken from you in any legal way once the transaction is complete. 

 

As such,  you buy mk8, the is a sale for mk8, you are then GIFTED the choice of a game. 

To call the selected game a sale is like calling a prize won from a competition on a packet of pringles a sale,  because you had to buy tge pringles to win it. 



tbone51 on 28 July 2014
MoHasanie said:

hmm, it still kinda flopped.
I expect it to reach 1.5m but mainly cause of the MK8 promotion. Otherwise it was destined to stay under 1m. 


Well to be fair its only been a year and the game probably sold 850k-900k lifetime already. This just means it will get between an extra 100k-500k lifetime, so a million was going to happen. Holidays are good for nintendo 1st party's, and if it flopped, the price would of had a huge notable drop like W101, Sonic Lost World, etc :)



MoHasanie on 28 July 2014
ktay95 said:
MoHasanie said:
ktay95 said:
Tamron said:
is it realy a sale if you give it away for free? hmm.

But it wasnt free, it cost the price of buying a new copy of Mario Kart 8 before "x" date. That probably helped pushed MK8 sales a bit, definitely counts. Its like saying console bundles dont count or buy 2 get 1 free sales at Gamestop dont count.

Do you think all those people that bought MK8, bought it for the promotion? 

Of course not but that dosent matter.

I get what you're saying about game sales through bundles, but this game came free with MK8 so I wouldn't really include its sales that came from the MK8 promotion, as part of its total sales since its not completely fair. 



    

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outlawauron on 28 July 2014

So wait, how many of the sales came from the MK8 promo? Surely more than 100k took advantage of it. I figured far more would have taken advantage of it.



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Tamron on 28 July 2014

Let me ask this then, if games given free with mk8 are considered a sale, should games given free on xbl/ps+ be considered sales, too, since you had to buy the subscription to acquire them?



ktay95 on 28 July 2014
MoHasanie said:

I get what you're saying about game sales through bundles, but this game came free with MK8 so I wouldn't really include its sales that came from the MK8 promotion, as part of its total sales. 

Why not??

If I went down to EGamestop right now and bought SM3DW and got Pikmin 3 for free as a promotion they are running would you count that?? Because I know VGChartz and NPD sure would.



AZWification on 28 July 2014
MoHasanie said:

hmm, it still kinda flopped.
I expect it to reach 1.5m but mainly cause of the MK8 promotion. Otherwise it was destined to stay under 1m. 

If you ask me, 1.5 million wouldn't be a flop by Pikmin standards..



                
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ktay95 on 28 July 2014
Tamron said:
Let me ask this then, if games given free with mk8 are considered a sale, should games given free on xbl/ps+ be considered sales, too, since you had to buy the subscription to acquire them?

PS+ games are long term rentals though, you have to stay subscribed =P

Not sure if MS is the same