Aye, it was likelier to bomb than it was to become a roaring success, so it's definitely done well.
Overall? Obviously not. I thought it might beat the second week XBone figure though.
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PAL Charts - Week 21, 2015
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frankie_baby
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Third place for a Wii U game in the UK is bloody good, do we have any idea what zombi u launched at?
That's good for a new Nintendo IP in the UK market these days, I would imagine.
Miles Quaritch
Member
Number 3 for Splatoon is great and fifth best selling U title too? Pretty impressive all round.
Maybe Nintendo will finally start to market most of their games...
Of course, I should have realised. Amazon would never willingly put out such an amazing deal.
Maybe Nintendo will finally start to market most of their games...
Of course, I should have realised. Amazon would never willingly put out such an amazing deal.
DAT bloodborne digital ratio.
As I've always said, the more "hardcore" games always have a higher digital ratio than the more casual ones.
so even though Bloodborne sold better than Dark Souls 2, it probably sold even more than that with the digital ratio being close to 40%.
KillerMan91
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If Splatoon really had somewhat comparable marketing campaign to Mario Kart I really don't see how around 20k debut week is that good. Sure it's UK and WiiU but still. Well it's not another Bayonetta 2 either though.
panda-zebra
Member
How did B2 do? 10k?
What's the reason for the differences in DD vs Retail splits (if that chart is accurate?), seems very random some games at 15% others at around 50%. Or are we talking really low total sales numbers that small fluctuations can cause big differences?
And holy hell at Witcher 3 PC retail selling more than X1 in Sweden.
And holy hell at Witcher 3 PC retail selling more than X1 in Sweden.
For a new ip with the userbase the console has over here, I think it's pretty decent.
17k is never decent, even indie games need to sell more than that to be called a "decent" debut.
Not when you're putting it into context.
Well I think the game sold well outside of the UK, like Japan has sold out of the game and the US might have done well.
frankie_baby
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In one country? If an indie game sold 17k just in the UK itd be considered a massive success
He's clearly working for Square.
They'd cancel the ip right away and make a new FF game.
Again, context. Wii U is non-existent in the UK, where Xbox and PlayStation dominate. Yet Splatoon, a Nintendo game that isn't Mario and is a brand new IP, still managed to rank highly.
You can only discuss these things within the reasonable parameters and all things considered, Splatoon did well. And it's going to do much better outside the UK.
frankie_baby
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Constant ads on the nicktoons channel (i've had to watch a lot of spongebob over half term)
With the marketing campaign in mind, the question for me isn't how Splatoon would debut but how long it's legs will be. That was the impetus of the MK marketing campaign and it seems like they wanted to mirror that here. It was fairly evident that they were in this for the long haul. For the majority of June it'll be fairly empty up until June 23 when Batman releases.
In spite of that, I think this is a pretty good debut for it's circumstance.
Do you have numbers for either market?
frankie_baby
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Possibly 150k first day shipment with some additional shipments over the weekend in Japan, proper numbers will be on Wednesday, will be a few weeks before American numbers, some reports of sell outs there too
Anywhere between 150-200k in Japan judging by reports
I guess indie is a broad term, I was talking about the bigger indie games like Transistor. Nevertheless, it's my mistake for not being clear.
He's clearly working for Square.
They'd cancel the ip right away and make a new FF game.
You're taking this a bit personally, it's just a video game.
"Did well" is the key word here, but a 17k debut should never be called that, "at least it wasn't as bad as B2" would be a better way to put it.
That's pretty decent for a new IP, I hope it does well in NA too.
frankie_baby
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Transistor sold 600k worldwide in its first 7 months, I'd be shocked if it'd had managed to sell 17k in the UK alone in its first 3 days
Nah, i'm only joking for the most part.
But do remember that other established Nintendo ip like Kirby and such has not been as high as Splatoon.
And besides, if they want it to be like Mario Kart, the bigger test is the staying power.
If it drops like a rock like most other Wii U titles, then that's really bad.
Acquiescence
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Weeks ago I was expecting Splatoon to bomb massively, but then again I wasn't expecting Nintendo to give it the huge marketing push that they did. That's a good result for them.
Splatoon is one of those products that creative companies especially just drop out from time to time, new fresh and with marketing/branding that is perfect.
Good name, good character design and a good fun game. Its the sort of thing kids will want to jump into.
Co'mon; one is a new IP and the other is one of (if not the) Nintendo's most popular products.
Good name, good character design and a good fun game. Its the sort of thing kids will want to jump into.
Co'mon; one is a new IP and the other is one of (if not the) Nintendo's most popular products.
Magic Mushroom
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Bloodborne's success pleases me greatly.
GoonerTRON
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Witcher dominating world wide. Good to see!
Mario Kart was bound to sell better no matter what really, but with Splatoon they explicitly said they were mirroring the marketing push. Hell several malls in Canada got giant Splatoon statues as marketing. Can't blame them; this is a game reliant on it's playerbase and a brand new IP on the Wii U from Nintendo would be quite of a hard sell.
17k is less than 3% of their total sales, why the hell not?
Nah, i'm only joking for the most part.
But do remember that other established Nintendo ip like Kirby and such has not been as high as Splatoon.
And besides, if they want it to be like Mario Kart, the bigger test is the staying power.
If it drops like a rock like most other Wii U titles, then that's really bad.
Yeah, legs are important right now, if it can stay in the charts for the next few weeks, I guess it won't be as bad.
KillerMan91
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It actually did a bit better than I remembered after checking. Between 10 and 13 k.
Well obviously if it has legs the end result will be a lot better. And of course we are only talking about UK here. While in UK Nintendo might lose money with Splatoon when you combine biggish marketing campaign and lowish sales elsewhere the story could be completely different (at least in Japan Splatoon seems to have good debut week)
I don't know why that should matter that much if Splatoon really had big marketing campaign. You don't make money in UK with debut of 20k if you had marketing campaign similar to Mario Kart. Obviously legs could change the situation but because we are talking about WiiU and UK I kinda doubt that.
frankie_baby
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We're talking about like 2% of the time (and being very generous to the UK market) in maybe 10% of the world wide market
Jimmyfenix
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Oh hey farming simulator on ps4 outsold xb1 this week
Wait this comparison from splatoon to mario kart was only for the marketing right?
Wait this comparison from splatoon to mario kart was only for the marketing right?
UK is to Wii U what Japan is to XBox One. With that context in mind, it can be called decent. Splatoon is such a good game, I reckon it should sell far more.