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It might be near 1.8m but where are you getting that???
I dunno, part of me thinks this was the plan all along before moving on to Mario Kart or whatever. No amiibo, or promise of new modes like story.
How well could it really have sold in 2017? In my opinion, yearly legs were going to be the determining factor, but we're not in 2018 yet.
For 2017, what would've been acceptable? 3m?
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Well, here's what Nintendo said:
Eurogamer: That's something that fascinated me - Mario Kart is big business, it's a huge selling series. For that team to go on to a fighting game - which is quite a niche genre, and not only that, it's an all-new fighting game - it's quite a bold move.
Kosuke Yabuki: I think with any game, whether it becomes big from a business sense - before you create it, you don't know. Even Mario Kart, some point back in the past, we didn't know it'd be such a success and go on for such a long time! In terms of now, while maintaining and supporting existing franchises like Mario Kart, it's important to try new things. Something like Arms, we're working as hard as possible to make Arms into something that fans will enjoy for a long time to come in the future. How long it continues and how successful it'll be, it's new so we don't know that just yet. In terms of the updates we're working as hard as we can on these updates, on keeping the game as fun and as interesting as possible, for as many people as possible for as long as possible.
Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-07-21-arms-yabuki-mario-kart-nintendo-interview-birdoplease
Similarly, Nintendo was still running flagship ARMS TV commercials in October:
This doesn't sound like something they intended to cut off after six months.
Neoxon this quote is probably relevant to your question too.
hm, if they were really pushing it like that, having no amiibo seems a weird choice.
What kind of sales could they expect in 6 months with other games releasing around it
Usually a mismatch of dev expectation and publisher support.
As for the numbers, they're from sell through of last quarter + the weekly sell through threads data
Well, as of our last update, Splatoon 2 has moved 3.61 million units and ARMS had moved 1.35 million units.
I would be surprised if they were hoping for 2-3+ million by the end of the year and didn't hit it, or only got near the bottom of that range.
It sticks out that this announcement was made just as the Christmas shopping season ended.
but there's no us numbers...right?
How did it get 500k more?
2m I get. 3m would be way too much.
From a while back, I knew this was never outselling Mario Rabbids, while others disagreed. Unless it randomly took off like Splatoon.
And Mario Rabbids is probably around that 2m.
it did have a lot of good coverage from the Nintendo World Championships and ads, so I guess Nintendo saw the needle wasn't being moved enough.
Still...killing support for a fighting game ip this early...
I think it's less to do with sales and more to do with retention, honestly. I'm pretty sure it sold decently, but if few people are still playing it, then what's the point?
I love everything about it but the gameplay, it's the only reason I have yet to pick it up , I'm not a huge fighting game fan as it is , but this one seemed more shallow then most .
It's a shame because I absolutely love the characters and the whole arms concept . At the very least it gives Nintendo a new roster of cool characters for there other genres .
It's a shame because I absolutely love the characters and the whole arms concept . At the very least it gives Nintendo a new roster of cool characters for there other genres .
They still could. Though any announcement Nintendo makes (if they do make an announcement) wouldn't necessarily be ARMS-related.
Welp the standoff of me waiting for more content to buy the games ends abruptly. Only Nintendo game I didn't buy for switch
I saw lot of people saying they were cutting off support, but I'm pretty sure they said they will continue patching the game for balancing and small fixes when the need will arise. That is, in my mind, the definition of "support". If you only mean the content addition will stop, ok, yeah. But I think right now the game have good content for a new IP.
I really enjoy playing this game but I just feel like it needs more universal mechanics to expand the gameplay and give it more depth outside of just throwing punches.
I don't find ARMS single player offerings nearly as interesting as playing the campaigns in Splatoon/2. Also don't find the online nearly as fun, so it's probably just a difference in taste.
Sad to see that Nintendo arent releasing any more new characters or badges, but considering all the content they released has been free they couldnt keep on supporting the game like that forever. Would make more sense to make a full sequel with a proper story and additional characters than doing free updates to game which isn't attracting a lot of new users.
Shame. I'm fond of the game but was never able to truly love it. I think a large part of that was the lack of story stopped me becoming fully enveloped in its world.
It's fun to play from time-to-time, graphics, performance, music and character designs are all top notch. Don't regret buying but wouldn't be interested in a sequel.
It's fun to play from time-to-time, graphics, performance, music and character designs are all top notch. Don't regret buying but wouldn't be interested in a sequel.
So the confirmed numbers add up to 1.8 million?
Why is everyone else reporting ~1.35 mil?
Same, They dropped the ball on characters look at Overwatch Nintendo if you want people to care about a new franchise.
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Arms has shipped 1.35m as of September 30, with 170k in the three months leading to that date. Not sure where the 1.8m number comes from.
The overwatch team is on a completely different scale than the ARMS team. Not to mention how long that game was developed.
I'm just talking about how they flesh out their characters to give them stories & personalities as well as friends & family that make us invest in the property or SOMETHING more
It sounded like that poster had newer information from somewhere...