Hi all, thanks for watching, as always! Just want to quickly add a **little** addendum to the end of the video, specifically the bit about “I don’t think Pikmin 4 is gonna sell 5 million units”. I wanted to go into more depth about this, but I really liked how the final few minutes flowed, and I didn’t want to ruin that by going off on a big tangent, SO, let’s do it here instead. 5 million units is a lot of units. 3 million units is a lot of units. 1 million is a lot. Many series would kill to sell that many. I feel like that point comes off as me dismissing selling a little bit less than 5 million as a failure of sorts, and I’m not, that’s a big win for a series that has infamously sold terribly throughout its life.
But I don’t think Pikmin has reached the “the general public is buying this thing and not just some weird internet people” point yet, and I don’t know if it ever will. From the looks of how it’s been talked about online (at least from my perspective) it’s primarily existing Nintendo fans playing it, and they’re LOVIN it (quote from Mr Mcdonald), but outside of that bubble it doesn’t seem like it’s made much of a dent. There’s more than there used to be, but there’s also *dramatically* more people who own a switch than a wii u, or a gamecube, so… 5 million units is kind of the watershed for me in terms of “is this being bought by people who aren’t chronically online Nintendo Fans?”. Metroid Dread was considered a massive success, but that only sold about 3 million. The Switch has an install base of 125 million. Were there people who aren’t deep in the Nintendo rabbit hole, who actually batted an eyelid at Metroid Dread? Based on the sales, probably not. Obviously, all of this is speculation based on opening week sales and comparing it to other switch games, and obviously in 3 months when Nintendo does an investor meeting and unveils that Pikmin sold 52 quintillion units and they’ve greenlit that pikmin movie and that primark collab, you can come back here to cackle at this comment. BUT, from the perspective of someone who’s watched this series desperately beg for the audience it deserves for more than a decade at this point, I don’t think 5 million is enough for it to get a seat at the big boy table. The “let’s make sure we make another one of these every 5 years otherwise we’ll be losing out on the big bucks” instead of “hmm, we’ve already made an iteration of every other series on this system, right, let’s make a pikmin then, fine”. I just want a better release schedule than once a decade. Please. Anyway, that's my rant, buy the game you knob.
Great thumbnail, sense of humour, and editing/presentation. Bonus points for the description. This was a hard sell for me.. but you've done it - good job. Buying a second copy of Tears of the Kingdom right now!
Pikmin 3 came out just as I started college. Now I'm 29. Your "before I'm 30" comments hit really hard. Buy this game, people! Don't put him through what I went through!
Hi all, thanks for watching, as always!
Just want to quickly add a **little** addendum to the end of the video, specifically the bit about “I don’t think Pikmin 4 is gonna sell 5 million units”. I wanted to go into more depth about this, but I really liked how the final few minutes flowed, and I didn’t want to ruin that by going off on a big tangent, SO, let’s do it here instead.
5 million units is a lot of units. 3 million units is a lot of units. 1 million is a lot. Many series would kill to sell that many. I feel like that point comes off as me dismissing selling a little bit less than 5 million as a failure of sorts, and I’m not, that’s a big win for a series that has infamously sold terribly throughout its life.
But I don’t think Pikmin has reached the “the general public is buying this thing and not just some weird internet people” point yet, and I don’t know if it ever will. From the looks of how it’s been talked about online (at least from my perspective) it’s primarily existing Nintendo fans playing it, and they’re LOVIN it (quote from Mr Mcdonald), but outside of that bubble it doesn’t seem like it’s made much of a dent. There’s more than there used to be, but there’s also *dramatically* more people who own a switch than a wii u, or a gamecube, so…
5 million units is kind of the watershed for me in terms of “is this being bought by people who aren’t chronically online Nintendo Fans?”. Metroid Dread was considered a massive success, but that only sold about 3 million. The Switch has an install base of 125 million. Were there people who aren’t deep in the Nintendo rabbit hole, who actually batted an eyelid at Metroid Dread? Based on the sales, probably not.
Obviously, all of this is speculation based on opening week sales and comparing it to other switch games, and obviously in 3 months when Nintendo does an investor meeting and unveils that Pikmin sold 52 quintillion units and they’ve greenlit that pikmin movie and that primark collab, you can come back here to cackle at this comment. BUT, from the perspective of someone who’s watched this series desperately beg for the audience it deserves for more than a decade at this point, I don’t think 5 million is enough for it to get a seat at the big boy table. The “let’s make sure we make another one of these every 5 years otherwise we’ll be losing out on the big bucks” instead of “hmm, we’ve already made an iteration of every other series on this system, right, let’s make a pikmin then, fine”.
I just want a better release schedule than once a decade. Please.
Anyway, that's my rant, buy the game you knob.
I want a tl;dr of that
I dont like reading on youtube
@@thomish tl:dr I think some pikmin skins in fortnite would be rad
Great thumbnail, sense of humour, and editing/presentation. Bonus points for the description. This was a hard sell for me.. but you've done it - good job.
Buying a second copy of Tears of the Kingdom right now!
Cackled out loud at that, thank you kindly!
When they showed Pikmin 1 in Pikmin 4 I almost cried.
I could be wrong, but I'm getting the slightest feeling that Sparkie would like me to buy this game. Not sure what gives this impression exactly.
just a hunch
what you gonna do if i dont,cry?
yes, lots, an obscene amount
Pikmin 3 came out just as I started college. Now I'm 29. Your "before I'm 30" comments hit really hard. Buy this game, people! Don't put him through what I went through!
When we gonna get the horror short, 'The Pikening' starring Sparkie Sparkerson and his spiral into insanity over the Pikmin franchise
next tuesday
this is good. why does it have so little views. i blame Big TH-cam
Played it. 100%'d it. Loved it. Playing Pikmin 3 again.
Alpha male right here 🫡
@@soitssparkie The Society of Pikmin Fans must remain strong.
Man I wanted to buy this game but you changed my mind
Lmao
I beat the demo. I had P1. Should I get P4 or Donkey Kong tropical freeze? Help me decide.
If you really loved the demo and Pikmin 1, then get Pikmin 4, no brainer. Tropical Freeze is a banger though, that I must concede.
I'm waiting for that ranking pukka pies video sparkie...
£1000 patreon stretch goal
People would sign up in droves
Good video, too bad I'm too broke to even buy a Switch
Do some good deeds and god with bless you with a copy 🙏
Are you Caddicarus?
No I am Sparkie
Where's my Pikmin 4 money so I can play the game
Check the sofa
what if im poor and come from a low income family and cant afford a pikmen for
hmm I did not consider this possibility
I am the 1.000th view
Jokes on you, I already bought it! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Buy it again
@@soitssparkieno
@@radu9944 oh go on