Whats even more crazy is that same thread on gaf even after Demo/heavy campaign some people still thought the game would do W101 levels of sales (or bomb/flop).

Looks like you were spot on on the meta, funny thing is if the game was fully complete and single player was full fledge (hello Splat2oon) it would be a 90+ game imo.

Complaints were directly from this^

That's what I thought after the embargo.  They got the mechanics of the game right, just need to fix the day one content problem and it has a chance for high 80 to 90+.

Splatoon is reminding me of SSB.

I think Splat2oon will be the equivalent of SSB Melee. It already or will have the brand recognition for next gen.

Well to be fair, my prediction was made before the demo and the marketing campaign announcement.  After that I was feeling that I have to change it but never did.  Only change my metascore prediction from 76 to 81 after watching the demo.  Should have follow my feeling.  At least I wasnt in the 250k-300kLT prediction because they are looking very silly right now..

Well, but so what is your ACTUALLY Splatoon prediction?

With 145,000 in JP (190,000 with digital), and 40,000 to 45,000 in Europe UK+JP (withouth digital), what do you think?

I will go with my most recently prediction: 100k EU, 145k JP (even if tecnically i predicted 150k :P), 200k US, and 500k globally. With Digital, some like 600k.

I think your prediction sound about right with digital sales.  

I think it'll be lower than 600k FW with digital,but if it is or close to that, my 1mil Shipped+Digital by end of June (which i looked crazy for) has a huge chance of happening even earlier (like Mid June)