I havnt seen a Nintendo commercial outside of dedicated gaming media in Sweden for years. But today during the swedish championship in Handball (top 5 sport in the country, nationally broadcasted) Splatoon showed up on the signs several times.

Nintendo means business this time around, Really cool!

Its a shame maybe xeno or dk tf should have this push. Splatoon won't interest UK gamers one bit unfortunately

I'm going to have as big a marketing push for 'pile of dung' as I did for 'thing everybody wanted before details were revealed.' It means so much.

You sure about that? So your expecting it wont even chart FW or at least be in the top 10?

Pity they didn't go all out for the marketing at Wii U launch.

Those japanese figures actually look quite respectable when you consider its a third of the population of the USA and there are more wii's per head in the USA too. Europe seems to be lagging though although the wii wasn't as successful over here as the USA. Sales figures seem low though when you consider how much effort Monolith put in. Hugely impressive for a console with only a 11gflops gpu. The original xbox has a gpu of over 20 gflops and I have never seen graphics on that console of the same scope even though it slaughters the wii in almost every other comparable game and has a range of software not even possible on wii due to lack of a hard drive for streaming in new data on the fly. 

I don't think the wii would have difficulty in recording all splatters they would just simplify it a bit I guess if they had to but I'm not sure they would have to. Splatoon isn't a large game, only 1.8GB, it would almost fit on a gamecube disc. The maps look fairly small. On face value it doesn't look like a technically challenging game and a wii version seems relatively easy. I mean if the wii can do xenoblade chronicles it can definitely do a version of splatoon.

Oh, they are finally doing that. Thought they had banned mentioning the WII U on Cartoon Network! ( over here in Malta we get Cartoon Network Uk )

Splatoon need strong push because is completely new IP that Nintendo want to succeed, DKC is well known franchise, Xenoblade was on Wii and is too early to be push at West also its very specific genre, Splatoon aiming much wider audience.

We will see about UK gamers, but this game is pushed globally, not just in UK.

It's the UK man, they have pretty much the worst taste in games of any country on the planet. ;)

Nintendo has never done as well in Europe as NA and Japan, it's been their weakest region for as long as they've been in the console business.

Wii vs Xbox is a complicated matter; each beats the other in different areas; Xbox has a more flexible GPU, hard drive streaming, and isn't capped at 480p. Wii has the stronger CPU, its fixed function GPU is restricted to certain technqiues but can perform them more efficiently than the Xbox, and it has more and faster RAM. There are games on both that couldn't be done on the other.

The thing about Xenoblade is that because the massive field is largely fixed assets, the game can stream them in and out from the disc. It's an impressive bit of engineering to achieve that level of scale on such limited hardware, yes. But Splatoon works a bit differently; the splattered ink is not fixed data that can be streamed from the disc, it's constantly changing in real time, so the game has to keep it all in RAM, all the time. Every single drop across the whole map. If that could fit into Wii's memory, it would mean the game needs less than 10% of Wii U's RAM. I don't think that's likely.