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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?

Vena on 28 July 2014
ktay95 said:

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

Not sure if MS is the same


You own the MS gold games.



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ktay95 on 28 July 2014
Tamron said:

every digital transaction,  yes. 

So do we count them as sales or not??

Im sure the publishers are happilly counting their money



Roar_Of_War on 28 July 2014
Tamron said:
ktay95 said:
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

and the free game with mk8 is technically a long term rental,  too,  its just a longer term 'till they shut down the servers" at an unknown point in the future. 

point being is its a digital only copy,  far short of leaving it installed forever and hoping your machine never breaks,  youre at the mercy of network functionality to have access to it. 


You'll never lose your downloaded titles, even if Nintendo goes out of business. It's not a long term rental.

 

digital copies are not temporary.



Vena on 28 July 2014
Tamron said:

point being is its a digital only copy,  far short of leaving it installed forever and hoping your machine never breaks,  youre at the mercy of network functionality to have access to it. 


What is a USB drive?



ktay95 on 28 July 2014
Vena said:
Tamron said:

point being is its a digital only copy,  far short of leaving it installed forever and hoping your machine never breaks,  youre at the mercy of network functionality to have access to it. 


What is a USB drive?

Absolutely pointless if your WiiU breaks down.

Also pointless if online servers for the console stop.

I should have just said this one word really, POINTLESS.



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prayformojo on 28 July 2014
tbone51 said:

 

Seems as though A couple games (Pikmin 3/WiiPartyU/LoZ WW HD/NSMBU) benefited from the MK8 offer! Take a look...

 

Total WW Sales

● 1.63mil: Pikmin

● 1.20mil: Pikmin 2

●   790k:  Pikmin 3 (+132k Digital Sales from US)

So interestingly Pikmin 3 and the top 13 games overall (these include retail games Wii Party U+LoZ WW HD) all have way above 132k in digital sales.

(From NPD)

 

LTD Software Sales:    Mario Kart 8 [WIU] 753K Retail Standalone, 885k Total

 

What do you think? I know MK8 free offer helped out but still, Currently 1mil seller for Pikmin 3?!!! And Wii Party U should Easily be over 1.5mil now WW!

 


That's great and all and I love Pikmin 3 but, if it's free through promotion, it's not really a "sale"...right?



Vena on 28 July 2014
ktay95 said:
Vena said:
Tamron said:

point being is its a digital only copy,  far short of leaving it installed forever and hoping your machine never breaks,  youre at the mercy of network functionality to have access to it. 


What is a USB drive?

Absolutely pointless if your WiiU breaks down.

Everything is pointless if the console itself is broken even if you own the physical copy. Unless you mean the lock-to-console issue that's slowly getting resolved by Nintendo's patching. At this point, short of the console literally breaking down and catching fire, you can transfer from one to another via USB indefinitely because of the recent patch.



Tamron on 28 July 2014
ktay95 said:
Tamron said:

every digital transaction,  yes. 

So do we count them as sales or not??

Im sure the publishers are happilly counting their money

Yes i can completely imagine Nintendo staff rubbing thier hands together,  basking in the joy of selling 100,000 copies of pikmin 3 at $0, 100,000x$0 sure is a lot of money :P



AZWification on 28 July 2014
MoHasanie said:

1.5m is good but before the promotion it was at 800k, which isn't that good. 

Pikmin games are niche, so of course their sales aren't going to be amazing from the get-go!



                
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ktay95 on 28 July 2014
Vena said:
ktay95 said:
Vena said:
Tamron said:

point being is its a digital only copy,  far short of leaving it installed forever and hoping your machine never breaks,  youre at the mercy of network functionality to have access to it. 


What is a USB drive?

Absolutely pointless if your WiiU breaks down.

Everything is pointless if the console itself is broken even if you own the physical copy. Unless you mean the lock-to-console issue that's slowly getting resolved by Nintendo's patching.

You can always buy another console if you have physical copies though. Digital is all gone once a console dies and the servers are shut off