Shovel Knight - 50% of total units sales come from Nintendo Platforms

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jonathanalis on 30 September 2015

plataform games sell well on wii U.

tembo the badass elephant would also sell better on a nintendo plataform.

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ymeegod on 30 September 2015

You still have to consider what's available at the time of release. There wasn't much on eshop worth buying besides maybe Trine 2 if you didn't already have that and Nintendo gave eshop credit ($10) so it wasn't to much of a surprise to see decent sales.

And it really doesn't matter what platform you pick, indie games have an extremely high failure rate (mostly because the market is so damn bloated).

Gunman Clive 1/2 is basically in the same boat. First game sold decent on Nintendo platforms so the developer makes the 2nd game exclusive and the sales bomb. Can't count on the indie market IMO--to damn fickle.
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Scisca on 30 September 2015

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I remember very well that when the game was released it was gloated as "the great exclusive indie game on Nintendo" and how Nintendo gamers were hyping it to be a mindblowing exprience, almost a GotY candidate. That's a big reason it got these sales - for months it was an exclusive and was hyped like there's no tomorrow. When it got ported, was compared to other indies on PS/X and got decent, but not mindblowing reviews, the hype totally died and the game was nothing special. That's why the sales on other platforms aren't anything special.

I remember very well the change in argument, that at first it was the second coming of Super Mario Bros., while after the port it was "yeah, a decent game, but has its flaws and all". That has a lot to with it. For me Shovel Knight isn't a special game or even a game I'm hyped about at all. I'll play it if I get it on PS+, maybe buy it on a crazy 70% sale, but nothing more. On Wii U/3DS it was seen as a revolution and the one and only indie ever created that's exclusive to Nintendo!!

Stop making shit up. Nobody ever claimed it was the second coming of video game Christ. It was never anything more than a well-made retro platformer. Start naming some "Nintendo gamers," because the only person who comes to mind is Colin Moriarty, and... hahaha. Yeah. Man, what a blind Nintendo fanboy, am I right? He is the only person I heard calling the game a GOTY candidate.

"It's not like some fancy-pants restaurant with some new innovative dish that's gonna change the way you think about food; Shovel Knight is just like a buffet with all your favorite shit."

This is a Nintendo gamer. Note the review date, months before the PSN or XBO releases.

I'm not making shit up. I remember very well Nintendo fans going crazy about this game and mentioning it in almost every thread possible. It was treated like a Nintendo crown jewel, one of the mindblowing games other gamers should be jelly about and the ultimate argument indies and 3rd party games can sell well on Nintendo platforms.

And I remember being quite excited for the game when it was announced to come to PS because of that, but ever since it became a multiplat all hype suddenly died, people suddenly were like "SK, yeah, it's ok, nothing special though".

The magic of exclusivity - all I'm going for here.

Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

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