Splatoon Passes One Million In Sales!

Welcome squids and kids for this inkredible news update! The game we all know and love has managed to surpass ONE MILLION IN SALES NUMBERS!!! That's a lot of inklings out there covering turf and Splating friends and foes alike. This news came from SplatoonJP, the official Japanese Splatoon Twitter account in this Tweet. In celebration of this latest triumph, a new commercial for Splatoon has been released in Japan and is available for viewing!

An official statement has been released from Nintendo on the subject as well, inkluding the sales figures by region:

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REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Nintendo has hauled up its nets, tallied its catch and crossed another milestone. Sales of Splatoon, the new squid-based game for Nintendo’s Wii U home console, have crossed 1 million worldwide, according to Nintendo’s internal figures. That figure includes more than 476,000 physical and digital units sold in the Americas, more than 368,000 sold in Japan, more than 230,000 sold in Europe and an additional 20,000 sold in Australia and New Zealand.

“Ever since Splatoon launched on May 29 in the United States, we’ve seen thousands of people go online to have fun in this colorful, chaotic competition,” said Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime. “This milestone puts us in a nice position as we prepare to launch 11 more exclusive Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games before the end of the year, plus amiibo, digital offerings and games from our third-party partners.”

Splatoon multiplayer pits teams of four online players against one another as they try to splatter a majority of the playing area with their team’s colorful ink. Players can transform into squids and swim through pools of their own ink to move faster or maneuver up walls to access hard-to-reach areas.

Note that broadband Internet access is required for online play. Remember that Wii U features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu.

For more information about Splatoon, visit http://splatoon.nintendo.com.

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With all the inkoming content and exciting Splatoon news, it's no wonder how many sales this game is getting while it's staying so fresh! So a round of applause Splatoon fans, we've passed the one million mark: now let's go for two!

 

Hooray for splatoon

 

What a beautiful milestone! Cheers to 1 million copies! Long live Splatoon.

 

And very well deserved too! Cheers, and let the splatting live on~!

 

And those CoD fanboys said this was gonna flop.
This proves them wrong.
So wrong.

 

I heard

And those CoD fanboys said this was gonna flop.
This proves them wrong.
So wrong.

COD sales are like in the 17 millions.

 

Yay for splatoon!

 

I heard

COD sales are like in the 17 millions.

There's also a huge install base for CoD. After so many releases and many more options to play it on. Of course it's going to have more sales. Comparably, for a new IP on a system that hardly has 10 Million units sold as of now Splatoon has done amazingly well.

 

just saying...

There's also a huge install base for CoD. After so many releases and many more options to play it on. Of course it's going to have more sales. Comparably, for a new IP on a system that hardly has 10 Million units sold as of now Splatoon has done amazingly well.

 

I heard

COD sales are like in the 17 millions.

BUT CoD has spanned through a decade or so... Splatoon could still catch up o u o

 

Im not attacking anyone here, im just pointing something out.

 

Awesome news! Love this game and I am glad everyone else does as well. It does have things that could and should be changed... but it will get there.

 

I'm not surprised by this. Nintendo has innovated and breathed new life into shooters and subsequently changed the shooter genre's bad image into a more positive one. This game is one of the funnest games I've ever played. Banzai Nintendo!

 

Next, 1 billion sales jk.

 

Congrats Splatoon!

 

That's awesome! :D

 

Cheers Nintendo, well done.

 

Awesome for Splatoon!

 

Next, 1 billion sales jk.

We'll save half of that for "Splatoon 2".

 

Glad to hear they've reached the first big milestone! We may not be at CoD level sales just yet, but we'll get there! Long may Splatoon prosper!