It isn't a good enough game to have any chance at doing well.

Maybe !

Very little to no chance. Splatoon had excellent marketing whereas Devil's Third will not.

Also, Devil's Third is exclusive to Amazon in Japan.

"It is an exclusive" - *looks at every bad exclusive ever* Yeah, I wouldn't call that an indicator of quality, especially when Nintendo didn't develop it. Also, it's technically not exclusive anymore, at least the only half of it anyone cares about isn't.

"Decent scores" - From Famitsu, which as people have pointed out, is not a reliable source for scores, ever. They don't seem to have any kind of standard, and I swear, half their ratings come from heresay and not actually playing the game. People have also pointed out some fairly recent cases of a large discrepancy in Famitsu scores versus average scores in the west.

"not delayed past other console releases" - maybe in Europe and Japan, but it is set for Q4 2015 in NA. That's a pretty big delay from a game that was originally going to launch in the same window worldwide. The other console bit is totally irrelevant based on your logic of the game being exclusive as well.

"lots of online attention" - Lots of very, very negative online attention. We may say any publicity is good publicity, but that only applies to things that don't need to actually be sold to people.

"a bit of hype" - A very, very small amount of hype. So little it's not even worth mentioning.

Let's ignore the fact that Nintendo has attempted to bury the game in the two regions it has released in so far, not marketing it anywhere, limiting sales to Amazon in Japan, and only securing English and French for Europe combined with the whole no marketing thing. Let's just pretend that NoA didn't struggle just to figure out if they should even publish the game in NA or not, with them being so indecisive that the game was massively delayed for NA where it is now likely to release during the holiday time where it will be completely missed due to games like Super Mario Maker taking stores by storm.

The game is doomed. That's all there really is to it.

Itll get 0 marketing, if it gets any I will be surprised.

Not a chance.

Even so that's optimistic.  It should sell worse than Wonderfull 101.

Even when I was saying I didn't think Splatoon wouldn't sell well, I never thought it looked like a bad game. I said that it doesn't look like a full $60 release, but more like a $20-30 downloadable game, and I still stand by that, I guess a lot of the public just disagrees with me. But everything I've seen from The devil's third makes it look like a bad game. With bad, nearly PS3 level graphics (and that might be going far); choppy framerate at best; a bad control layout; and plot holes galore, this looks like a legitimately bad game. To me, it looks like the makers were going for something like a game platinum would make, but only platinum games really does that type of game well.

lol, let's not get carried away!