So, Splatoon moved more consoles than DK Tropical Freeze

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Mnementh on 02 February 2016

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XCX is a more impressive game than DK, that's for sure.

Well, I agree on this, but I hve a strong feeling that XCX was much more expensive to make than DK:TF.

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Mbolibombo on 02 February 2016

To me Donkey Kong TF is a far superior game than Splatoon, I still love Splatoon though.

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zippy on 02 February 2016

Both great games, both have sold well....who cares?

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LipeJJ on 02 February 2016

I bet Splatoon moved more consoles than even 3D World, so no contest for DK.

And yeah, Retro missed their chance: while Tropical Freeze is a great game, it's also unambitious and more of the same. Even if they wanted to work with DK again, they should've made it a 3D game at least, or maybe one that actually used the main feature of the console: the gamepad. What about online coop? Nope, same old game with a plus: extremely outdated graphics.

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Vini256 said:
People wanted a new Metroid and they released another Donkey Kong that looked too similar to Returns. The game is great no doubt, but I'm sure it killed the hype around Retro for this gen, especially since their other unnanounced projects probably have been switched to NX already.

I'd bet "Metroid Prime 4" would've sold less than DKC: TF did. Prime 3 didn't even do *that* great considering how big the Wii userbase was. c.

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se7en7thre3 on 02 February 2016

MrYoshi said:
Donkey Kong never was that popular of a game anyways.

someone didn't grow up with an SNES... That was pretty much the game that led SNES over Genesis in popularity IIRC.

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Lonely_Dolphin on 02 February 2016

zippy said:

Both great games, both have sold well....who cares?

Everyone who posted in this thread. Yeah, we shouldn't care, but you know how it is.

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ninjapirate42 said:

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Do you have any evidence for that? Maybe 500k people have bought a Wii U for DK, but only 400k one for Splatoon?

I think Japan going bananas over Splatoon says enough for this.

but this is no proof that more people bought a Wii U for Splatoon than for DK.

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mZuzek said:

LipeJJ said:

extremely outdated graphics.

No.

Yep.

I mean, they used a modified version of Unreal Engine 2.5... that's sad.

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