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Tachikoma on 05 February 2015
EricFabian said:

so 6 million in about 2 months is not popular enough for you?

That is not what I was getting at but hey, strong sales in the first two months sure helped the wiiu didnt it?



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EricFabian on 05 February 2015
Tachikoma said:
EricFabian said:

so 6 million in about 2 months is not popular enough for you?

That is not what I was getting at but hey, strong sales in the first two months sure helped the wiiu didnt it?


oh it helped. I'm sure if wasn't the first two months Wii U propably would be at 7million mark 



Baryonyx on 05 February 2015

All that wasted money basically went up in flames



 

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zorg1000 on 05 February 2015
GProgrammer said:
zorg1000 said:

Well to be fair, that 5.7 million figure is for just a little over a month and with Amiibo being available for a single device with an install base under 10 million (3DS doesn't have Amiibo support yet).

A heads up, the New 3DS which has been available in Japan and other countries for a while does support Amiibo's. Smart move by Nintendo though, $3 billion for activision, they could see there is demand for these figures.


To my knowledge, Smash 3DS doesn't get Amiibo support until later this month so even tho Japan/Australia have had New 3DS for a couple months not, they still haven't been able to use Amiibo. I could be wrong tho, I tried looking it up and couldn't find a conclusive answer.



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zorg1000 on 05 February 2015
Tachikoma said:
zorg1000 said:


Well to be fair, that 5.7 million figure is for just a little over a month and with Amiibo being available for a single device with an install base under 10 million (3DS doesn't have Amiibo support yet). While that 65 million figure is for an entire year with Skylanders being available on 10 platforms (Wii, Wii U, 3DS, 360, Xone, PS3, PS4, iOS, Android, Fire OS) with combined install bases of like a billion.

Youre over analysing,  the simple fact is, skylander and disney franchise figures are more universally popular to kids these days than nintendo figures. 

 

Its been like that for a long time. 


No its not over analysing at all, the simple fact is, comparing 1 month of sales on a 9.2 million install base vs 12 months on a 1 billion+ install base is not logical in any way, shape or form.



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Ruler on 05 February 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
65 million in just one year? :o
I've never even seen one of these things irl as well


This



Playstation_prophet on 05 February 2015

Skylanders aren't cheap. If they wear cheaper, I would buy more. I'm not sure why companies don't understand this.

I guess they have 3 billion reasons, lol.



DM235 on 06 February 2015

I thought they were on their way to $3 billion.  Well, they released this info-graphic to say that they have already passed $3 billion:

https://blog.activision.com/community/games-blog/skylanders/blog/2015/02/05/skylanders-2015-infographic



RenCutypoison on 06 February 2015
Ka-pi96 said:
65 million in just one year? :o
I've never even seen one of these things irl as well


Not being in a US elementary school helps



Frogger on 06 February 2015

Aren't they on a serious decline though? I thought I read somewhere that like 200m+ were sold the year before.