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I really want splatoon to have some MK8 like legs so I can serve some crow :)



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Pretty sure it can beat CoD there, 600k is defeneatly possible

Just for sake of comparision, how much did the best MGS and Biohazard (since 4, older ones are hardly shooters) do?



justicebringer said:
johnsobas said:
COD also sold 600k and 500k on ps3. I doubt splatoon can get to 600k but it's possible. I guess it depends on how much demand really was week 1 because of the sellout.

that's because you are hating.


who's hating?  I've been on this site for 8 years and i've never been banned.  You got banned instantly.  Good job.  I dunno if a game will sell 600k on PS4, i just doubt splatoon will unless it has a big 2nd week.  I've been following sales in Japan for a long time, not that many games that have big sales sell 4x first week sales.   This is indeed a special type of game that's hard to judge because it's a new IP and it's unique.  I still don't expect 600k in physical sales at least in Japan.



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Bofferbrauer said:
Pretty sure it can beat CoD there, 600k is defeneatly possible

Just for sake of comparision, how much did the best MGS and Biohazard (since 4, older ones are hardly shooters) do?


MGS 4 and RE5 both a million sales.



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Skullwaker said:
biglittlesps said:

Its not really shooter for regular FPS and TPS hardcore gamers and its a shooter for same demographic of nintendo gamers using cartoon graphics over realistic. This game sold well because it matched the art style of Nintendo games and marketing and played by those same gamer fans of Nintendo but not by the hardcore shooters from PS and Xbox. Other shooters are made for western audience so they wont sell like this game over at Japan.

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johnsobas said:
who's hating?  I've been on this site for 8 years and i've never been banned.  You got banned instantly.  Good job.  I dunno if a game will sell 600k on PS4, i just doubt splatoon will unless it has a big 2nd week.  I've been following sales in Japan for a long time, not that many games that have big sales sell 4x first week sales.   This is indeed a special type of game that's hard to judge because it's a new IP and it's unique.  I still don't expect 600k in physical sales at least in Japan.

I don't think a standard shooter will sell 600k on the PS4 in the first place, tbh.



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Splatoon is basically like.... owning in sales right now. So I expect it to do very good overall. I can also see it doing really good in Japan, so yeah.



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SpokenTruth said:
Early reports are that it sold almost 100k in the second week.    Given that and if accurate, how do you project it now?

 

Wait, what? Who reported that?



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SpokenTruth said:
johnsobas said:


who's hating?  I've been on this site for 8 years and i've never been banned.  You got banned instantly.  Good job.  I dunno if a game will sell 600k on PS4, i just doubt splatoon will unless it has a big 2nd week.  I've been following sales in Japan for a long time, not that many games that have big sales sell 4x first week sales.   This is indeed a special type of game that's hard to judge because it's a new IP and it's unique.  I still don't expect 600k in physical sales at least in Japan.

Early reports are that it sold almost 100k in the second week.    Given that and if accurate, how do you project it now?

where is that report?  It makes things a lot more likely.  It seems obvious it would have sold more first week if it wasn't supply constrained if the 100k is true.  Probably would mean it's gonna have decent legs too.    Still not a sure thing at all but with 100k second week i'd say more likely than not.  If you include digital sales it would be very likely it would make it IMO (assuming 100k sw).  We won't get a clue about legs until week 3.  Week 2 is hard to gauge because of supply problems.

If you told me like 40k sw i would say it probably isn't gonna make it.  



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biglittlesps said:

Its not really shooter for regular FPS and TPS hardcore gamers and its a shooter for same demographic of nintendo gamers using cartoon graphics over realistic. This game sold well because it matched the art style of Nintendo games and marketing and played by those same gamer fans of Nintendo but not by the hardcore shooters from PS and Xbox.