{"id":7372,"date":"2022-09-23T19:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/feature-with-sales-outpacing-pokemon-why-is-splatoon-so-popular-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T19:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T19:14:41","slug":"feature-with-sales-outpacing-pokemon-why-is-splatoon-so-popular-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/feature-with-sales-outpacing-pokemon-why-is-splatoon-so-popular-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: With Sales Outpacing Pok\u00e9mon, Why Is Splatoon So Popular In Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nintendo is squids in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It happened almost overnight. One day in May 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/splatoon\"><strong>Splatoon<\/strong><\/a> merch appeared <em>everywhere<\/em> in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Baby inklings dangled from kids\u2019 backpacks. Squid-girl stickers adorned pencil cases. Convenience stores advertised raffles for figurines, coffee cups, and Splatoon-branded bags. This explosion of Splat-swag was perhaps more of a surprise given that the Wii U sold only 3.3 million units in Japan. Lifetime worldwide sales of Nintendo EAD&#8217;s first ink-based team shooter would come to rest at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/en\/finance\/software\/wiiu.html\">4.95 million units<\/a>, a very respectable figure \u2014 especially for brand-new IP \u2014 but hardly an indicator of the utter phenomenon the franchise would become in Nintendo&#8217;s homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/with-sales-outpacing-pokemon-why-is-splatoon-so-popular-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Feature: With Sales Outpacing Pok\u00e9mon, Why Is Splatoon So Popular In Japan?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nintendo is squids in.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It happened almost overnight. One day in May 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/splatoon\"><strong>Splatoon<\/strong><\/a> merch appeared <em>everywhere<\/em> in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Baby inklings dangled from kids\u2019 backpacks. Squid-girl stickers adorned pencil cases. Convenience stores advertised raffles for figurines, coffee cups, and Splatoon-branded bags. This explosion of Splat-swag was perhaps more of a surprise given that the Wii U sold only 3.3 million units in Japan. Lifetime worldwide sales of Nintendo EAD&#8217;s first ink-based team shooter would come to rest at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/en\/finance\/software\/wiiu.html\">4.95 million units<\/a>, a very respectable figure \u2014 especially for brand-new IP \u2014 but hardly an indicator of the utter phenomenon the franchise would become in Nintendo&#8217;s homeland.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/with-sales-outpacing-pokemon-why-is-splatoon-so-popular-in-japan\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}