Shovel Knight Sales! 180k Sold First Month: 3DS 33% / WiiU 27%

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Ninsect on 06 August 2014

WhiteEaglePL said:
Wow great sales actually. Wii U has high software sales but low hardware for now...

48k sold in a month isn't exactly "high". Mario Kart 8 has high sales though considering the install base, but that game represented like two-thirds of all WiiU software sold from April-June 2014 (even though it released in May).

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anonymunchy on 06 August 2014

DanneSandin said:
I've done some thinking over these numbers for the past 30 seconds....

On the one hand these are really great numbers for Nintendo as it shows that 3rd parties can be very successful on their systems, but on the other hand it also goes to show the taste of Nintendo gamers and why Nintendo rarely get any major support from 3rd parties. Nintendo gamers only want Nintendo like games. No wonder Ubisoft/Activion/EA releases any games for Wii U/3DS

Take the good with the bad I guess

Something people often seem to be forgetting when talking about 3rd party games on Wii U is the price difference. If I'm not mistaken, games like FIFA and AC are actually 10€ more expensive than any Nintendo game.

Great sales for this game though and I expect it to rise considerably when they start adding the stretch goals, like multiplayer battles, gender swap, playable boss characters. I've purchashed it on Steam for now, but once it's out in Europe I'll get it for both Wii U and 3DS I think.

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Anfebious on 06 August 2014

I would say 180k is ok, not great... The game is really good though so start buying it people!

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NiKKoM on 06 August 2014

hmmm.. can't remember which email I used to support this.. I should have gotten the pc version somewhere.. think this is one of the last kickstarters i supported cause frankly there are too many of them out there, but good sales for them.. only shows how effecting Marketing can be and more of these indie games should get them from the big 3.