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Forums - Sales Discussion - Splatoon 2 sells 671k first week in Japan

TechnoHobbit on 26 July 2017

Software a little lower, but still pretty great.

Hardware way lower than I'd like to see, but considering how badly Nintendo is failing at stock it isn't surprising.



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jason1637 on 26 July 2017

Thats really good. Could be over 700k with digital.



shakarak on 26 July 2017

Great start would we estimate 750K first three day launch with Eshop sales?  Do we have any data on Eshop ratios in Japan?



RJ_Sizzle on 26 July 2017
the_dengle said:
So much for over a million first week.

I tried to warn y'all

Uh no. But this is still no small feat. Splatoon has now hit phenom status in Japan.



vivster on 26 July 2017

Not bad. I wonder if it can take Smash Bros' place of being the default Nintendo online multiplayer experience. Or is the online community of Mario Kart already bigger than both?



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Metallox on 26 July 2017

120 or 102K?

EDIT: I honestly feel like some people overestimated Splatoon 2's sales potential. How many games in Japan have sold 500K+ copies in opening week in the last few years, anyway? Lots of Pokémon, MH and Yokai Watch games, sure, but not many things beyond those. 670K seem pretty solid to me, especially considering that Switch has sold just above 1.2 million units. 



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killeryoshis on 26 July 2017

Software Sales are lower than I expected.
Hardware sales are higher than I expected.

My consensus: I am neutral on this prediction.

Anyway these sales are good but expected. I am more interested on the legs on this one. Could the franchise grow to unreasonable heights? We will have to wait and see.



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sc94597 on 26 July 2017

I expect some good legs too, since so many people who wanted the console and the game couldn't get it.



gentii on 26 July 2017
Jranation said:
It easily beat Zelda and MK8D! New king is here!
MC should be about the same. But yeah expected closer to 800k.

Any news on how much its stock sold?

Numbers are like monster? So you think this game dont havd Digital Downloads? 



vivster on 26 July 2017
mZuzek said:
vivster said:
Not bad. I wonder if it can take Smash Bros' place of being the default Nintendo online multiplayer experience. Or is the online community of Mario Kart already bigger than both?

I'm pretty sure Splatoon is already the default Nintendo online multiplayer experience, even if it might not have the largest amount of users. Mario Kart and Smash have big online communities, but they both thrive a lot more as local multiplayer games, whereas Splatoon is heavily focused on the online and has a much more connected fanbase because of stuff like the Inkopolis posts or Splatfests.

Thought so.

Then again, there still is Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle^^



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