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KH91
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Well done Nintendo. Spratoon sells over 1 million and it helped to increase Wii U sales in Japan for the past few weeks.
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Lemonchest
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Says something that Nintendo is celebrating 1million units shipped worldwide (*redacted for being inaccurate*) when Square Enix were bemoaning Tomb Raider "only" selling 3.4million units in its first month of release.
edit: 1 million one month sales is good for a new IP, no doubt. I just don't find myself all that impressed by 1 million first month sales for the first significant new IP from Nintendo in 10-15 years, with a big marketing campaign & a console that is hardly awash with titles competing for attention. Last edited by Lemonchest on Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:32 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Kadmos1
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Or when a $1 million-dollar budget movie makes $100 million on its opening weekend. |
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LinkSword
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New IP versus popular IP that's been around for decades. If you think the predicted sales for those cases are similar, you might want to check on your facts. 
By the way, the game sold 368k units in Japan, 476k in America, 230k in Europe and 20k in Australia. So you might want to use real numbers as well. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Congratulations to Splatoon reaching over 1 million copies in international sales.
 Turf battles couldn't be more intense with the Inklings spreading their colored ink with their various artillery.
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Chrno2
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Damn, Splatoon has really done well taking the whole paint ball sport to your living room. Well, we'll be getting out copy soon. The fiscal year is coming to a close so I got one more wind of video games to request for the library before the new funds come in.
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Lucy_Nyuu
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And they thank the players with the worst Digital Event/Press Conference at E3 since Wii Music...
I'm so mad about that, but i'll end up buying the NX anyways... Stupid fanboy-me... |
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Radrappy
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It's ridiculous to compare this to Tomb Raider, a well established IP that's available on multiple consoles/pc with huge install bases. The fact that they sold a million under a month with a new IP on struggling hardware is a goddamn miracle. Also, this is not shipped. It's sold. |
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Radrappy
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The thing about the disastrous conference is that it somehow made everyone forget that nintendo had JUST released the excellent Splatoon and put Ryu in smash brothers. Just because the presser sucked, Nintendo hasn't somehow stopped making amazing games. The hype factor of this industry has gotten way out of hand. People are treating this more like sports or politics than simply enjoying great games or not. |
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Lucy_Nyuu
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What's gotten people angry about the conference is that it seems Nintendo abandoned the Wii U now. It looks like Zelda is probably the last big Wii U title, and that's not what the Wii U deserves, and frankly not what the fans that supported Nintendo through these rough years deserve. I personally expected one last big show for the Wii U like last year, then i'm fine with it "dying". They could've held back Ryo for the conference, and put together a tiny trailer for Zelda, and the reaction would've been a lot less extreme. Last edited by Lucy_Nyuu on Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:42 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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CrownKlown
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To counteract those saying well you can't compare this to an established IP, well most of those established IPs don't have Nintendo's general good will.
The fact that this game was from the makers of Mario, Zelda, etc. probably gives it as much of a boost as if it was a sequel. If splatoon is not released by nintendo, and say released on the one and ps4 by some third party sales would be lucky to break a 100K in a month. So don't act like this is something really amazing. |
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Radrappy
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Uh huh, tell that to Codename STEAM |
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LinkSword
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BAM. There you go, CrownKlown, that's one more poor assumption shot down. |
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SilverTalon01
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You're right. That is far more than it deserves. The thing is a pile of garbage being saved solely by the popularity of their first party games (and I do like several of those). The actual system is trash. |
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CrownKlown
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Okay and it was a turn based rpg styled on Western themed comics with a love craft steam punk twist. Its a little hard to compare that with Splatoon. At least use Code name heroes as a suggestion. Besides one example that goes counter a statement does not disprove it. |
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