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Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze shipped 1.4m on Switch
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Now this is freaking huge. Last reported TF numbers on Wii U were 1.12M, so this has already far exceeded that in just a couple months.
For whatever reason I'm much thirstier for Switch software than I was for Wii U. I keep buying games. What's wrong with me!
Great result! I didn't dig Tropical Freeze as much as a lot of folks seem to, but it is undeniably a grand game and sales success is always awesome.
Those four years Retro spent working on Funky Kong implementation was worth it ;)
Great result! I didn't dig Tropical Freeze as much as a lot of folks seem to, but it is undeniably a grand game and sales success is always awesome.
Those four years Retro spent working on Funky Kong implementation was worth it ;)
Replaying it at the moment on Switch.
It's the difficulty that will prevent it reaching higher numbers when it's all said and done.
I'm someone who's played through the likes of Super Meat Boy and Celeste and there are still times where I'm surprised by how hard some sections or bosses are.
A young and/or inexperienced player would really struggle with this title. Not sure Funky and the special items would be enough for them to enjoy it.
It's the difficulty that will prevent it reaching higher numbers when it's all said and done.
I'm someone who's played through the likes of Super Meat Boy and Celeste and there are still times where I'm surprised by how hard some sections or bosses are.
A young and/or inexperienced player would really struggle with this title. Not sure Funky and the special items would be enough for them to enjoy it.
amazing to see an under appreciated game finally get its deserved success
yaaas
True but original DKC were also pretty challenging and we all enjoyed them when we were kids.
imagine how much it would have sold if it also included DKC returns HD
didn't the wiiu version either not get to 1 mil or barely cross it?
Strong evidence that games can be re-released to additional success on switch at this point
surely, we give W101 a decent re-release Nintendo...right?....right?
surely, we give W101 a decent re-release Nintendo...right?....right?
Sort of another proof that Wii U was the problem, not the games (the games that were missing contributed big time, of course).
Great, the games totally deserves to sell more but they didn't really help it with that price tag so this is still good numbers and hopefully guarantee an evenly good sequel.
They should just re-release everything. Everything can beat their Wii U sales at least.
Gonna easily cross 2 million, possibly 2.5-3 million depending on legs.
DKCR3 is basically a lock now for Switch. I guess, I hope you like the DKC brand Retro, lol. You guys kinda dropped the ball big time by getting whatever that new IP you were working on canned.
DKCR3 is basically a lock now for Switch. I guess, I hope you like the DKC brand Retro, lol. You guys kinda dropped the ball big time by getting whatever that new IP you were working on canned.
People are buying, so there's that. I sure won't pick this up for more than 20 Euros though, but guess I'm in the minority.
So happy for Retro and David Wise, game is great, which reminds me that I still need to beat it. On Wii U I stopped after 2-3 and now on Switch I'm on 5-Boss and am stuck. Hopefully this signals to Nintendo to keep porting Wii U games.
Retro probably has serious upper management issues. No one knows if the project was canned or just went through many phases but is still coming. I really hope the key people behind TF are still there though and give us another gem.
Platinum teases it. They also teases bayonetta on Switch at one point. Predicting the sales of that one would be interesting, what did it do on WiiU? 150j WW?
So 2.5 million for TF so far.
A far cry from DKCRs 10 million but still good. Hopefully DKCR3 is in the pipeline
Upper management sits in japan
Yup dkcr on wii sold about 8 million and dicr3d did about 2 million