Locked: Splatoon outsold The Wonderful 101 by 30:1 first week in Japan.

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Ryng on 04 June 2015

A simplye comparation with this two games first week in Japan...

The Wonderful 101: 5,000

Splatoon: 150,000

Splatoon sold around +2900% of what The Wonderful 101 sold first week...

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TheVoraciousFox on 04 June 2015

Splatoon was affected by the curse of being made by Platinum games. :/

Seriously though, Splatoon had a much stronger marketing campaign behind it so It's not surprsing.

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Jranation on 04 June 2015

NICE!!!!! I hope Nintendo learned how big the marketing is for it to be really successful. Cant wait what other new IPs they have to show in the upcoming e3!

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fedfed on 04 June 2015

i Hope, so if W did 5,7k first week and now has a total of 20 k in Japan.

Splatoon with 150k first week will have 526k.

Not bad!

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Cloudman on 04 June 2015

TheVoraciousFox said:

Splatoon was affected by the curse of being made by Platinum games. :/

Seriously though, Splatoon had a much stronger marketing campaign behind it so It's not surprsing.

O: Doncha mean Wonderful 101?

Also, scratch one claim against Splatoon down ; )

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LemonSlice on 04 June 2015

Wow, TW101 did really terribly.

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Goodnightmoon on 04 June 2015

How could this indie game with no hype and no marketing do that?

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Ultrashroomz on 04 June 2015

One things for sure, Nintendo's heavy marketing paid off.

"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."