Schopenhauerian
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Thanks! Certainly looks like a comfortable margin.
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Thanks! Certainly looks like a comfortable margin.
Yes it easily outsold MK8. During it's first 8 months on the market Splatoon wasn't even bundled with the Wii U as Nintendo Japan wanted to maximize profit from Wii U/Splatoon Sales. So initially there was an MK8 Bundle that you had to buy to get Splatoon and after that there was a SMM Bundle you had to buy to get Splatoon. It worked out pretty well since both SMM and MK8 ended up with a few more sales due to this tactic.
In the end Splatoon was hampered by the fact that consoles are dead in Japan but still ended up with 1.5 mil physical sales and somewhere in the region of 110-200k digital(estimation).
Now it's coming on a console that's also a handheld - so I personally expect it to sell 5 million copies minimum in Japan, over the course of it's first two years on the market. Simply put the game has a lot of room to growth and for Japan it's the biggest game you can advertise Switch with. It's the main game that will push online subs in Japan. Since Switch also supports local it's going to be a big hit among school children and will allow them to play it with their friends locally.
Emily was still saying this as late as a day before the presentation. She was just as wrong on that front.
More like two months to be honest.
AdventureRacing
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That prediction remains as crazy now as it was when you first made it. How many games have ever sold 5 million in Japan in history? I'm pretty sure the list is tiny. I don't want to say it's impossible but to expect splatoon to sell that much is unreasonable.
FloweryMarston
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the only accurate leaker is oti xero, tbqh
I could see over 2 million, 5 million is Dragon Quest on DS territory. I doubt any game in Japan will ever reach that.
There are 10 games that have sold more than 5 million in Japan.
There is no console game that has sold more than 5 million in Japan.
Highest selling console game is New Super Mario Brothers Wii for Wii with around 4.4M copies.
SMM 3DS sold a million in Japan for the holidays compared to SMM Wii U that sold a million in over an year.
Splatoon would have sold more if the Wii U wasn't in it's final year during 2016.
Splatoon 2 is going to be a summer holiday title in Japan. It will continue to get updates, tournaments, events and promotion during it's first two years on the market as a major driver of subs.
Splatoon 2 is coming out on a device whose form factor is much more inline with the way Japanese prefer to play games. It will allow for far easier demonstration of the game compared to the Wii U since you can play Splatoon with your squad on the go. There is going to be kids in schools and parks this summer doing LANs.
Splatoon 2 Japanese Trailer is already the 9th most watched video on Nintendo Japan in less than a month since the reveal.
Splatoon 2 is the system seller for the Switch it's bigger than MK8D and Zelda combined hence the rush to get a sequel to the game ready for the Switch's first year.
I do expect it to have sold twice the amount the Wii U version did by the end of 2017 so at minimum around 3 million. It's also the game that has had the longest legs in the legometer and only due to the sequel and Wii U being discontinued that it ended up exiting the chart.
It will be over 3 million by the end of 2017 and it will continue to sell - Zelda and Mario might be bigger drivers of adoption outside of Japan but in Japan Splatoon 2 is going to be the system seller and sub driver. Hence it will continue to get a lot of marketing from Nintendo for at least a few years. Especially as Nintendo does want to develop Splatoon 2 into an eSport game - much like Valve/Blizz this is going to be a game that continues to get investments and the current tournaments are just a taste of things to come. As Splatoon 2 is build around tournaments, spectator mode, streaming and community building - it will be a far more interesting prospect to predict.
You'd be surprised...
correction. over 5 million is Pokemon and Super Mario territory. not even the best selling DQ crossed 5 million. not even the latest Pokemon main games have done that either (last one to do over 5 million was Black/White) and only 2 Super Mario games have crossed 5 million (original SMB and the first NSMB)
i can see Splatoon 2 doing 3 million but over that would be insane.
D.Lo
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The vast majority of 5 million sellers were DS games. Non-pokemon games that have sold over 5 million in Japan: New Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros, Brain Training 2, Animal Crossing DS.
Pokemon games: Ruby/Sapphire, Black/White, Diamond/Pearl, Gold/Silver, Red/Green/Blue.
I think Splatoon has a shot at Monster Hunter/Mario Kart numbers (3-4 million).
Pokemon games: Ruby/Sapphire, Black/White, Diamond/Pearl, Gold/Silver, Red/Green/Blue.
I think Splatoon has a shot at Monster Hunter/Mario Kart numbers (3-4 million).
New leaf sold over 5 million too I think.
Edit: Maybe not, but it was definitelly higher than Pokemon
mocolostrocolos
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5 million seller for a title that's going to be near a console launch with few installed base sounds bollocks to me.
It won't sell 5 million but the game is going to be selling for a loonnngg time.
Octavianus
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As a person who's lived in Tokyo for +10 years those ads are lame-O
Here's a GOOD ad for further reference
I wouldn't call that a good ad to be honest.
This is absolutely not a "soft launch".
2M unit, heavy advertising including super bowl commercial.
It's anything but a soft launch.
I agree it looks terrible and you can't even read clearly the message in the middle.
Splatoon on the Wii U didn't exactly have a huge opening on it's way to being the biggest console game in Japan. It's actually poised to have a much bigger opening on the Switch than it did on the Wii U.
UnemployedVillain
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He thinks plushies, in Tokyo of all places, is a sign of targeting a younger demographic
Lord Ghirahim
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As a person who's lived in Tokyo for +10 years those ads are lame-O
Here's a GOOD ad for further reference
As a person who lived in Tokyo for much less than that can somebody please explain why Naomi is in fucking everything? Also Matsuko Deluxe. And fucking りゅうちぇる. I don't understand what those people even do.
Finale Fireworker
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I didn't know they had a purple one. I want a purple one!
Skittzo0413
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Can't tell if you're joking or not, but I thought the same thing at first glance. It's grey though, just looks purple due to the lighting.
I would kill for a purple Switch though...