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Title: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: Shaymin on June 24, 2015, 02:57:22 AM

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:

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

Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: Spak-Spang on June 24, 2015, 10:32:36 AM
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. 



Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: hhgjf on June 24, 2015, 10:46:29 AM
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.
Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: broodwars on June 24, 2015, 11:22:18 AM
Hopefully this leads to more New IP in the future, something I'd much rather have than the usual endless parade of Mario games.
Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: ShyGuy on June 24, 2015, 11:37:52 AM
Step yo game up, Australia.
Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: Ian Sane on June 24, 2015, 03:24:09 PM
Quote from: broodwars on June 24, 2015, 11:22:18 AM
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.
Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: ClexYoshi on June 25, 2015, 12:04:04 AM
now if only NPD could determine how many of those players play with the Aerospray RG...
Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: Taffypool on June 25, 2015, 11:18:19 AM

Quote from: Ian Sane on June 24, 2015, 03:24:09 PM
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 (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/37576/e3-2014-predictions) (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.
Title: Re: Splatoon: Over A Million Splatted
Post by: Mop it up on June 25, 2015, 08:31:05 PM
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.