Splatoon sells 1 million copies worldwide

The Splatoon Twiter page has sent out a Tweet saying the game has sold 1 Million Units worldwide. Nintendo has now sent out a PR email.

Splatoon Twiter page wrote:

News that the world total sales 1 million this break of the platoon went!

Our research results of squid Institute have ...... softened tears whether that was acceptable to so many people.

First of all I want to tell thanks to everyone that who have support.

PR email wrote: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.

That's great news and I recall people saying the game would tank just weeks ago.

That is incredibly good for a new IP, on the Wii U, with not even 4 full weeks.

This is absolutely amazing news! (Or should I say inkredible :p) I'm so glad even a game like Splatoon, a new IP on a console with an extremely small userbase like Wii U, can still do so well. Hopefully this does show Nintendo new IPs can be successful. And also Spla2n confirmed for NX lol.

But really this just makes me so happy. I know TONS of people thought the game wouldn't even sell 300k lifetime, it's been out not even a month and it's at 1 million.

It really IS about time a new IP FROM Nintendo has been successful. I don't remember the last time that happened. 

Pikmin or Animal Crossing back in the early 2000's?

I have to say, congratulations on Nintendo! (⌒o⌒)