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Forums - Nintendo - Splatoon the #1 Selling Console game of the generation has now SOLD 1.7mil in Japan!

Goodnightmoon on 31 December 2016
aLkaLiNE said:
Goodnightmoon said:
I knew it was going to be a success since the very first time I saw it, most people here simply have no vision at all, that's why Switch gets so much negativity, in 2 year they will look the numbers and feel just as stupid as they felt with Splatoon.

Quite often I find that there's a serious disconnect between opinions on here/NeoGAF and reality/mass market. With that being said, it's hard to knock someone for being a hopeful skeptic in regards to the switch.

 

Also also, splatoon is a friggin monster 

Is ok to be skeptic but I see so many people on the internet convinced that is gonna fail simply because the power, is ridiculous, such a simplistic way to look at things it reminds me a bit of when people said Splatoon will fail because no voice chat and/or too kiddie artstyle for the genre, look it now lol, at this moment the popular internet wisdom says Switch is a fail because 0.4 flops is less than 1.3 flops, that's it, this years are gonna be fun.



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KrspaceT on 31 December 2016
aLkaLiNE said:
Goodnightmoon said:
I knew it was going to be a success since the very first time I saw it, most people here simply have no vision at all, that's why Switch gets so much negativity, in 2 year they will look the numbers and feel just as stupid as they felt with Splatoon.

Quite often I find that there's a serious disconnect between opinions on here/NeoGAF and reality/mass market. With that being said, it's hard to knock someone for being a hopeful skeptic in regards to the switch.

 

Also also, splatoon is a friggin monster 

Yeah I have noticed that. Ignoring the Right Wing leaning they do tend to behave oddly. 

 

First shooter I ever played, and I hope to see more on the Switch. 



The Democratic Nintendo fan....is that a paradox? I'm fond of one of the more conservative companies in the industry, but I vote Liberally and view myself that way 90% of the time?

NoirSon on 02 January 2017
cosmic_drift said:
Highest-selling? Dang. Happy for the game, but this doesn't bode well for Japanese console gaming.

Yeah, that has been the case for a while, the HD/Wii era really didn't grab or retain its audience in Japan, many either moved on from gaming or switched to mobile phones/computers. Only certain franchises (mainly Final Fantasy, Mario and Dragon Quest), most currently locked to handhelds, Pokemon, Monster Hunter, Yokai Watch, etc still break the million threshold in Japan, hence why so many Japanese companies are either struggling to appeal to the Western market or like Square Enix or Sega, buying Western development groups to create the software to appeal to the Western market.

Time will tell how the Switch will play out, will it be embraced like most Nintendo handhelds have been or will it be a slow build up that eventually starts to get good sells like the last few Sony devices in Japan that started slow but eventually became the larger selling non-handheld consoles of their time period.

 

Edit: In regards to Splatoon, good to see. Hopefully this spurs Nintendo into giving the talent behind this game or other new ideas legit chances at games instead of just shuffling them into spin offs of other current IP or eShop games with no marketing. Heck hopefully it teaches them marketing any game is better then what they normally do for the non-Zelda or Mario titles with silent launches outside of a few internet videos/trailers. Still not seeing the results yet but I am hopeful.