test_account
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Before all the advertisement, why wasnt this a valid guess?
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Do we expect Splatoon to be the next major Nintendo I.P.?
- Thread starter Majestad
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Preorders had already dwarfed W101 launch sales by wide margins.
test_account
XP-39C²
Was there any info on that? The only pre-order info i've seen is like 116 copies at Comgnet (a store chain that concist of 19 store or something) in Japan, and this number was much lower about 3 weeks ago.
1 point usually > 1.000 sales. At least it was for the past Wii U releases.
test_account
XP-39C²
Yeah, based on that, the game should be around 100k or something for the first week in Japan indeed. But as i mention, that number was however much lower about 3 weeks ago. And its also only for Japan, i assume that people here are talking about worldwide sales at least. If someone made the Wonderful 101 comparison quite recently, it would be different, but if someone made it weeks ago, i'm just wondering why it wouldnt be a valid guess.
Personally, i think that Splatoon will sell much more copies than i thought about 3 weeks ago, mostly because of all the advertising that started.
Nintendojitsu
Banned
I wonder if the Splatoon's initial sales exceed Nintendo's expectations will they speed up the timetable on the aforementioned August patch to something earlier like July?
That depends on if Nintendo provides extra manpower to get the update out sooner.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Holy crap
twothunder
Member
COMG ranking of May 27, 2015
[WiiU]スプラトゥーン - 147pt
Splatoon at 147
http://www.comgnet.com/ranking/
Don't know if this one or tomorrows ranking is the final one
All Comgnet numbers start low and grow as time passes, generally peaking about 1-2 weeks before the release date. Its starting position on the ranking (12pt back in April) was already higher than the starting position for W101, if I remember correctly, and has grown with each successive report since.
So unless there's more coming in before the weekend, retailers essentially low-balled their expectations for it and it'll have a stock shortage.
Soooo, japan ✓
It should do that, or pretty close, in its first week.
YES! If anything I want single player DLC. I love it. Hopefully the sequel will have a more substantial single player campaign.
Stilton Disco
Member
The Amiibo helped, but what I think is going to sell this game, that I previously assumed was going to bomb, is that Nintendo are actually trying to be competitive and are advertising the damned thing.
Credit where it's due, they've really given it their all when it comes to getting the message out there this time.
Nintendo games have never bombed because they weren't good, they've bombed either because no one knew they existed, or because they didn't know why they should care about them.
Hopefully this will be the stratergy for more games going forward.
CaviarMeths
Member
Yeah, 120k first day in Japan I think is a good indicator that we've moved passed any worry of a W101 level bomb.
Next stop: Worrying about it being a Bayo 2 level bomb!
Next stop: Worrying about it being a Bayo 2 level bomb!
Uot? Bayonetta2 wasn't able to sell 120k LTD in Japan, Splatoon sold that number in 1 day
Bayo2 sold 39k in its first week in Japan, and was around 50K after 1 month on the market.
It seems that it did better in the West (I think it sold better than the PS3 version on Bayo1 in US), but I think that also Splatoon will sell at least decently oversea.
That's more than W101's worldwide LTD i think.
frankie_baby
Member
It's not
frankie_baby
Member
Restocks have already been happening
Yup, it's all about marketting if you want sales and how much you put money into it >.>'
CaviarMeths
Member
I'm aware, that's the joke.
This thread brought up W101 and B2 a lot as a barometer for failure, and Splatoon is looking to easily pass both of those. It really shouldn't have much trouble reaching 1 million and beyond sales this year. The interesting part is whether or not it'll have legs/tentacles.
test_account
XP-39C²
True, but how much they grow and how early/late they enter the Comg charts variates from game to game. Back then, 12pt wasnt exactly very optimistic concidering that it was relatively close to the launch of the game, in my opinion, so i just wanted comment on that. The game did however see more point gains out of the ordinary as time went by =) Not that all this matters that much now anyway, the game is clearly going to sell a lot more than The Wonderful 101, especially in Japan.
Any updated numbers somewhere? I'm interested
oooh, I'm sorry, I missed the joke!
frankie_baby
Member
Fuck knows where sorry, if I remember right Japan was at 26k and America at something like 70k, add in the rest of the world and it'll be above 120k for sure, maybe not by much
Ok fair enough, last time i heard it was around that number, but it was a while ago so it's possible it got past that. There's still a chance Splatoon Week 1 sales in japan > W101 worldwide LTD though.
Yea, but this is Nintendo we're talking about . Either the IP hits a million or it hits the bin.
Benzychenz
Member
120k is just Japan though, could easily be at 4-500k worldwide first week.
Easy 1m LTD. Splatoon 2 on NX is practically confirmed.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Spla2n.
It got good reviews, it fills a void in their portfolio and it would be nintendo's biggest new console IP since Wii Fit (according to mediacreate thread). I'd say Splatoon as a returning nintendo IP for next gen seems almost confirmed.
The foundation is there, and it seems like a solid base to build future games upon.
Leatherface
Member
I think this game is going to surprise a lot of people with it's success, up to and including Nintendo. 
Which after watching some videos, especially Nintendo Everything's neat stuff about Splatoon, I would love to see a fully fleshed out single player TPS that's not just a puzzle platformer. The world they created is very realized for such a short time in development and I would love to see them take it further
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Because it's made by Nintendo and not a hardcore niche game.
Splatoon 2: Splatooner
2 Splat 2 Fur-ink-ous
IronLich
Member
I think the fact that when Nintendo put out a test beta for the multiplayer last week, the Wii U player base choked the life out of its servers... that's a pretty decent indication that it will have a sizable audience... that will gladly forget it exists and go back to Mario Kart and Smash because those two games have the online multiplayer market on lockdown when it comes to Wii U.
Aaron Strife
Banned
Well now that the game has come out and seems to be doing pretty well, the real question is how will people be able to dismiss Splatoon when talking about how Nintendo has no new IPs
I predict we'll go full circle and people will say it's too kiddy.
I predict we'll go full circle and people will say it's too kiddy.
SuperLeviathan
Member
Like Mario Kart last year, Splatoon gets the whole summer to itself, too. Nothing else is coming to overshadow it.
It'll be curious to see how console sales have been impacted. These could be the best weeks the Wii U had in Japan in a while.
It'll be curious to see how console sales have been impacted. These could be the best weeks the Wii U had in Japan in a while.
twothunder
Member
Already posted this before but..
All the sales numbers I could find for Wonderful 101
Creamsugar has it at 104K in the April 2015 NPD thread. (That´s after price cuts etc.)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=160467229&postcount=1252
In japan, It´s first week was 5,258
[Wii U] The Wonderful 101 (Nintendo, 08/22/13) 5,258 (New)
http://www.destructoid.com/the-wonderful-101-s-sales-don-t-look-good-so-far-260892.phtml
In the end of 2013. It still didn´t show up in the top 200 of media create. So less than 42.606 LTD in Japan at that time
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=125783246&postcount=1
No idea about Europe.
fredrancour
Member
Splat2n: Ink-lectric Boogaloo
Splatoon 3: Ink Free or Splat Hard
Spl4toon: Judgement Day
Splat00n: Origns
LightningXCE
Member
Everybody that I know that has a Wii U bought it. Also, I work at Gamestop and we had more preorders for Splatoon right now than we do for both Mad Max and slightly under what we had for the Witcher 3.
Yeah. Seriously.
Yeah. Seriously.
OrbitalBeard
Member
Nah man, that can't be true. This game is going to do Wonderful 101 numbers.
Anecdotal evidence, but that sounds great. Hopefully that translates into sales, as the game seems to be really good and innovative.
Astral Dog
Member
Mother of God,,, dat change on marketing department may work a little after all.
a little