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Because when you saw the game, what it was about, or any other factor (feel free to mention) you thought the game couldn't possibly sell as well as it eventually did.

What game(s) was that?



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Tomadachi Life... The game just looked eh but it sold reallyy well



                  

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Splatoon: The Thread



Splatoon, thought the game looked good and wanted to play it, but didn't expect it to sell nearly as well as it did



Splatoon and of course Pokemon Go, that game blew up so quickly and garnered insane news coverage and stories in just a few days, but since Go is free I'll stick with Splatoon.



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The game about colorful squid kids that say "woomy."



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

Until Dawn. I thought the press was going to rip it to pieces.

State of Decay. I remember when everyone was complaining about the developers and the updates but it still kept selling.



Splatoon



Splatoon
- Its on the Wii U (W101 says hello!)
- Shooter on the Wii U
- The game looked small/does not have enough content.



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Splatoon. I thought it looked cool and creative and I thought, hey, a million is possible. But Then it just kept selling and selling. Huge surprise.