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Will Splatoon 3 outsell Splatoon 2 (13.30m) worldwide?

Yes 55 90.16%
 
No 6 9.84%
 
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deerox on 12 September 2022

I wonder how much of that is digital.
Splatoon 2 sold 4.1 million physical and 1 million digital, which is only about 20% of sales.



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Ashadelo on 12 September 2022

And just like that, Splatoon 3 became the highest-selling game ever in Japan within a 3 day period. The switch is going nowhere anytime soon and Splatoon 3 proves that the Switch still has a very healthy future ahead of it.



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Bofferbrauer2 on 12 September 2022

So basically it sold as much as Splatoon did on the Wii U in Japan in total on day one and outsold it's predecessor within 3 days? WTF???

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ShadowLink93 on 12 September 2022
Slownenberg said:

OMG what the?!

That's insane. Completely destroyed Japan's all time launch sales record?!

That's truly unbelievable. I figured it'd do a million or maybe 1.5m launch week, given that it's the second Splatoon on the system and seems to just be more of the same good stuff rather than a huge upgrade from Splatoon 2. Splatoon is now a mega series in Japan of the highest order. Now it makes more sense why Switch HW went up so much just for the Splatoon colored system - they're obsessed with the series!!

So it should very quickly enter the top tier of Switch games in Japan (AC, Smash, MK8D, Sw/Sh, Splat2). It might pass MK8D and Smash by end of year to only trail AC, depending on how its legs are the next few months. Wonder if it will do over a million this week.

I wonder what global launch numbers were...like 6-7 million or something??

Yes it does seem like Japan is obsessed with Splatoon just how America is obsessed with Call of duty and how Europe is obsessed with Fifa, lol.



Kakadu18 on 12 September 2022
Mar1217 said:

Now I wonder what does this spell for this week hardware sales. Usually, such incredible software sales will probably correlate in really high hardware sales as well

It will sell out.



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deerox on 12 September 2022
Mar1217 said:

Now I wonder what does this spell for this week hardware sales. Usually, such incredible software sales will probably correlate in really high hardware sales as well

180K is my guess.



Slownenberg on 12 September 2022
Mar1217 said:

Now I wonder what does this spell for this week hardware sales. Usually, such incredible software sales will probably correlate in really high hardware sales as well

Hopefully Nintendo had a bunch of systems on shelves this week. Would be cool to see 200k HW sales this week.



Soundwave on 12 September 2022

Nintendo should do more of what they did with Splatoon and BOTW ... putting their own spin on modern genre conventions ... BOTW took Skyrim style open world and put it into Zelda, Splatoon is Nintendo's take on online shooters.

Splatoon was my favorite game on Wii U and one of my favorite Nintendo franchises, I think this also shows a younger generation of Nintendo fans is probably driving some of these sales, this IP is very popular in Japan among teenagers.



theRepublic on 12 September 2022

Wow, very impressive. I was kind of thinking a second Splatoon game on the Switch seemed too early. Nintendo really like to do one entry per franchise per console. Turns out I was way wrong.



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Mr.GameCrazy on 12 September 2022

That's very quick! I wonder how much it sold at the rest of the world.