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And you?

Yes. 171 46.22%
 
No. 199 53.78%
 
Total:370
Barkley on 04 July 2015

Wait.... the poll..... does yes mean "Yes I expected it to sell this well" or "Yes I thought the same as Iwata."

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Ryng on 04 July 2015
Barkley said:
Wait.... the poll..... does yes mean "Yes I expected it to sell this well" or "Yes I thought the same as Iwata."

:|

The first: "Yes, i expect it to sell this well".



superchunk on 04 July 2015

I'm glad this has done so well and hope it continues to be improved with each hardware iteration. Such a fun game.



Luke888 on 06 July 2015
RolStoppable said:
Luke888 said:

and sadly at the last Investors meeting his popularity has grown. I am one of those people who want a NEW, FRESH, YOUNG Nintendo, which Splatoon rappresents perfectly so I hope that at this time next year we will see someone uder the age of 60 yo as the CEO of Nintendo since sales doesn't look to be good on any Nintendo game from here except for Xenoblade and maybe Mario Maker (who knows, maybe we are underestimating Mario Maker as much as people underestimated Splatoon at the time...). I believe Zelda will arrive by the end of 2016 so no mention on that.

That said even if Iwata mantains his position I hope this is the push that will convince them to bring us new IPs constantly EVERY YEAR so that every game has the time to be well appreciated and also Let's hope they learned how marketing and making viral their games is a key factor to the sales. The Kid-Squid certanly has contributed more than how switching the Japanese and the american trailers whould have done.

 

Edit: Wow, I just found out that Iwata is 55, damn he looks soo much older, he should really drop the job and focus on all his deseases. How cool would it be to have Satoru Shibata, actual president of Nintendo of Europe as the next main CEO of Nintendo? certanly it would be a good message about the usually close minded Nintendo menality and it might also help the market here in Europe where Sony is dominating, since having a President near to us would make feel better the consumers. The only though thing would be Shibata to have to control both Nintendo of Eu and Nintendo of Japan at the same time since not having the CEO also in Japan might switch te parts without any effect...

Luke, are you serious? Did you really mention Xenoblade as the only guaranteed big seller from here on out?

And instead of criticizing Iwata for the job he has been doing, how about you focus on your own job? You know, the one that I assigned to you. I am not noticing any improvements.


Yes, it's the only guarenteed big seller by the end of this year, as I said other games need to be advertised in a similar way to Splatoon :

-Devil's Third doesn't seem to get any advertisment and saddly it'll most likely flop;

-As said previously Mario Maker needs an advertisment push and it seems like Nintendo is giving it so as I said it could do really well;

-Star Fox as far as I've been told has never sold really well, plus it's difficult that Nintendo manages to make an advertisement push also on Star Fox it beeing so near to MM;

- Yoshi WW doesn't count since it's already out here in Europe :v .

For my English I ordered my homeworks book almost a month ago but the Amazon staff told me that due to delays it's beeing shipped around the 3rd of September °-°'''



tbone51 on 06 July 2015
Ruler said:
Yeah but it cost 40 bucks in many countries

Yeah, Europe. In Japan and NA where majority of sales are at are priced normal, and to top it off people still expected it to not even do a million lifetime so.....?



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Qwark on 06 July 2015

Well let´s be honest to ourselves it had not much competition on WII U now did it, if the game released on PS4 (and wasn't made by Nintendo)  it would probably get trampled by Bloodborne, Witcher 3 and Pcars. Still it´s good to see a new Nintendo IP doing well.



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Skullwaker on 06 July 2015
Ruler said:
Yeah but it cost 40 bucks in many countries

Last I checked not every $40 game sells 1m in 3 weeks.

Furthermore, it's only $40 in Europe, which is by far its weakest market.



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Skullwaker on 06 July 2015
Qwark said:
Well let´s be honest to ourselves it had not much competition on WII U now did it, if the game released on PS4 it would get probably get trampled by Bloodborne, Witcher 3 and Pcars. Still it´s good to see a new Nintendo IP doing well.

Then why did other games on the Wii U flop? That's not how it works.



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Conegamer on 06 July 2015

Well...did anyone seriously expect this success?

On paper it looks like it's doomed to fail. A new IP on a struggling console with a very unusual premise, has all the hallmarks of being a niche classic and little more. For it to do so well...amazing.



 

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Qwark on 06 July 2015
Skullwaker said:
Qwark said:
Well let´s be honest to ourselves it had not much competition on WII U now did it, if the game released on PS4 it would get probably get trampled by Bloodborne, Witcher 3 and Pcars. Still it´s good to see a new Nintendo IP doing well.

Then why did other games on the Wii U flop? That's not how it works.

No advertising people hardly know other games on WII U excist if they are not familiar Nintendo games



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