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jason1637 on 19 December 2015
Mr Puggsly said:
jason1637 said:

 


It was free, and a lot cheaper.

A lot of people got Splatoon free as well.

how?





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zealen on 19 December 2015

Great game, but not even close. People here try so hard to make splatoon bigger than it is.



Mr Puggsly on 19 December 2015
jason1637 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

A lot of people got Splatoon free as well.

how?

 

The game had bundling in NA, Europe, and Japan. The Black Friday bundle was Splatoon and Smash Bros.



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jason1637 on 19 December 2015
Mr Puggsly said:
jason1637 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

A lot of people got Splatoon free as well.

how?

 

The game had bundling in NA, Europe, and Japan. The Black Friday bundle was Splatoon and Smash Bros.

Well paying $250 to get splatoon or paying $50 for ps plus to get rocket league, that seems like a fair comparison. 



Ljink96 on 19 December 2015

Only beaten by Konami's issues. I admit that I had NO faith in this game but man am I eating tons of crow right now. It's been said, but I'll say it again: NEVER underestimate Nintendo.



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Mr Puggsly on 19 December 2015
Goodnightmoon said:
OneKartVita said:

 

Again it's not the fault of Psyonix that they released it on much more appealing platforms. Splatoon may be a popular shooter but rocket league created a new genre.  Soccer with cars.  That's a much bigger achievement than making a shooter.  

Splatoon reinvented the most popular genre of videogames after a decade of no innovations on it. Is way more than just another shooter.

I'm not sure if I would call to mix 2 concepts widely used on videgames a new genre, maybe a subgenre, and while it is true that RL is overall a very original game... it didnt really created anything since RL is the sequel of a 2008 game with identic concept.

But the thing is, would Rocket League have sold more than Splatoon being a 40 - 60$ game on a console with 10 milions of users?

Of course not. And with this I'm not downplaying the success of Rocket League, is huge and mostly deserved, I just think the IP potential of Splatoon is way higher.

Splatoon disnt reinvent the shooter. CoD wont suddenly become a Splatoon clone. Splatoon is just a unique shooter. Saying shooters havent seen any innovation in a decade is just dumb.

I think it would have been bigger news if a mature 3rd party game sold millions on Wii U.

Splatoon is a Nintendo game doing really well on a Nintendo console. Thats par for the course. Furthermore, alot of Splatoon sales were bundles. Less bundles, less boasting.

An indie company making a hit with a small budget is bigger news than Nintendo having a multi million seller. Rocket League will likely become the more profitable of the two if it isnt already



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