Splatoon has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide.

[CM2]

Easily my GOTY to be honest.

 

[Mendax]

well, that's quite the achievement.
easily the Wii U's killer game in my opinion.

 

[Joseph Staleknight]

Heck yeah! I think this'll be the Wii U's finest moment; a game that sold incredibly quickly and was worth every $60 spent.

Now I can't wait for the next game in the series.

 

[Spennicus]

Just picked up my copy a couple days ago and it's already my favorite game on the Wii U.

 

[Las7]

Awesome, few could have predicted it would do so well before the launch. That means there are a majority 2.5 million non Japanese players, while it appears that the most invested are the Japanese. 400K watching the tournament and concert event, that's just crazy.
Amazing success, biggest home console game in Japan and now among the big franchises of Nintendo.

Hopefully they continue supporting it with content till Spla2oon drops.

 

[Silver_1357]

4 million kids and or adults have become squids.

 

[Award]

It's a nice tribute that for the first several years of the Wii U struggling, Iwata said over and over to investors and interviewers that "one piece of software can turn things around." And right at the very end, he was proven right.

 

[Zombie Aladdin]

Wow, Super Smash Bros. for 3DS trounced Super Smash Bros. for Wii U that bad?

 

[Rockenberg]

That pretty much means every Wii U owner either already has the game or wants to get the game.

 

[Award]

Wow, Super Smash Bros. for 3DS trounced Super Smash Bros. for Wii U that bad?

It's just the install base. People criticize them for torpedoing WiiU by wasting resources on Smash 3DS rather than as a console seller, but that volume talks. Technically attach rate is better on Wii U, but 3DS just has so much volume. Yet another example of why NX needs to be a home/portable hybrid once and for all. It's just a financial necessity at this point.

That makes Splatoon's numbers all that more impressive though. Doing almost half the sales of one of the top pillars on 3DS on Wii U - and if you look at the dates, Splatoon wasn't even out for a month and a half of that time period!