Topic: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted

[Shaymin]

The Wii U shooter hits a major milestone in its opening month.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/40601/splatoon-over-a-million-splatted

Splatoon has cleared a million units sold worldwide in its opening month.

Nintendo of Japan tweeted out the announcement last night, thanking the players for their support of the game. A follow-up press release from Nintendo of America broke the sales down as follows:

• North America: More than 476k (136k in the first two days in the United States according to NPD)
• Japan: More than 368k (approximately 310k on disc per Media Create figures through June 21)
• Europe: More than 230k
• Australia: 20k

The 1.086m units makes Splatoon the 10th Wii U game known to cross a million copies sold worldwide.

[Spak-Spang]

Well this guarantees a sequel in the future and perhaps a new franchise is formed.


If I was Nintendo I would launch Nintendo NX with this game being one of the launch or early releases. 

[hhgjf]

Great news. Good for both Nintendo and the Splatoon online community. Hope they can maintain an active online player base as long as they can.

[broodwars]

Hopefully this leads to more New IP in the future, something I'd much rather have than the usual endless parade of Mario games.

[ShyGuy]

Step yo game up, Australia.

[Ian Sane]

Hopefully this leads to more New IP in the future, something I'd much rather have than the usual endless parade of Mario games.

This could so easily have been a Mario game, too, with the Mario Sunshine similarities and the squids resembling Bloopers.  Maybe they realized that Mario is a little overexposed.

I didn't see the sales potential in the game.  Way to prove me wrong, Nintendo.

[ClexYoshi]

now if only NPD could determine how many of those players play with the Aerospray RG...

[Taffypool]

This could so easily have been a Mario game, too, with the Mario Sunshine similarities and the squids resembling Bloopers.  Maybe they realized that Mario is a little overexposed.

I didn't see the sales potential in the game.  Way to prove me wrong, Nintendo.

Not to toot my horn, but I basically called that in my pre-E3 prediction last year (scroll through comments), under the title Mario Paint(ball). Everything that Splatoon is, is pretty dead-on accurate to what I predicted, minus the Mario theme (and that damnable lack of Voice Chat!), complete with the avoidance of red paint.


I'll just assume my other predictions -- Kid Icarus 3D Platformer (by Retro?!), Startropics and Pokemon MMO -- are being held for a massive NX reveal.

[Mop it up]

I was unsure of how well this game would do, so it's nice to see it's selling well, and Nintendo have done a decent job promoting it. I hope to see a sequel as there's still more to be done with the idea.