>Million sales for new IP >On a new console >With literal

They didn't thats how. The game is dead

>>386481998
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/index.html
How does it feel to be wrong.

Kinda stagnant at this point

>>386481998
The game is picking back up now that people realize Splatoon 2 is garbage.

>>386481939
>>With literal who devs
Are you joking? ARMS was done by EAD 1.

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>overshadowed by Splatoon 2
>died in a few weeks
lol

>>386482259
Isnt there an update this week

>>386481939
>Nintedrones have to eat this shit and call it a good game
Lol

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I prefer this to Splatoon 2. I'd rather jump in party mode/ranked in ARMS than do turf war/competitive in Splatoon.

>Candy girl
>guy with scroll arms
>vine armed jungle man
>guy with jack in the box arms
>And another lady character

These were all datamined from the game. The jungle man will be revealed tomorrow or Wednesday

>>386483979
>jungle update

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT

>>386481939
>>With literal who devs
>Mario Kart 7 and 8 devs are literal who's
C'mon son.

>>386481939
>>Probably going to be at EVO Japan
>a fucking motion-controlled fighting game
How autistic does one have to be to believe that?

I wish that Nintendo to make Franchises like Rhythm Heaven and Warioware actually relevant instead of making this trash

>>386484941
You do know that ARMS has already been confirmed for EVO, right?

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>>386484871

>>386482312
Yeah no. Arms is the sole reason for not getting a Smash port sooner rather than later. Can't wait for it to die.

>>386485196
>Smash port
Why would you want this? They need to make Smash 5 and remove all the anime trash already

Switch still has no games huh?

>>386481939
Nintendo are "literal who" devs?

>>386481939
Nintendo money and advertising, then from there the idea (and color-scheme) itself stood out as interesting. Basically Splatoon all over again, but now not predominately pedo-pandering.

>>386485347
>nintendo
>removing their now-successful weeabbux
About as likely as Marcus Fenix and Scorpion getting in. If anything expect them to get more attention than any other franchise next game.

>>386485664
You have no idea what pedo pandering is shut the fuck up

>>386485664
>removing their now-successful weeabbux
What? Both Xenoblade and FE are total flops. To the point where ARMS and Splatoon utterly destroyed both, and Sakurai has admitted to there being too many FEfags.

Still waiting for more content.

It would also help that I don't own a tv and have to play it in propped up mini screen mode which sucks anus.

>>386485805
My bad, didn't mean to imply the whole world is as bad as Japan, I meant "subtle globally-acceptable pedo-pandering".

>>386485915
Update is coming in a few days

>>386481939
It sold a bunch because it's the new Nintendo memeconsole with literally no releases out for the next 1.5 years after release. Everyone rushed to get a Switch and then realized they needed something to actually play on it other than BoTW which had a superior version on the Wii U. The game is practically dead online, not even Pixiv lewd art could save it. Spla2oon is the only relevant Switch game.

>and it died in a week

nintenbros bought a $20 mini-game and are now complaining about no content. The beta was literally the whole game

>>386485845
Xeno yeah, and FE relatively-speaking is a low-baller for sure, but when Japan sees a franchise go up in popularity within their native country (1 mil sales average as of late, and after REALLY going after those otakus for decades) then it's more super-special and deserving than what the gaijin like, time to go all in on the marketing. Also the gacha mobileshit is probably currently the highest-paying app in the mobile industry right now.

tl;dr it's a pride thing.

>>386486123
Spla2n, Mario Odyssey and Prime 4 at least.

Then it's probably a ghost-town unless E3 2018 shows anything good.

>>386486123
it's a wasteland but not for the next 1.5 years, stop spouting bullshit

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>>386484786
It's not the night.
It will never be the night.

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>>386486729
>and after REALLY going after those otakus for decades
They only needed to up the fanservice.

>>386487393
FE needs to die asap. This shit is cancer

>>386486892
I imagine the Musou will get a fair bit of playtime, as Warriors Stars is looking pretty lackluster and not evne close to £50, whilst DW9 is still ages away.

>>386486123
There were still lobbies last time I went online, a few days ago

>>386484941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIil6IIEyQY
It's hilarious that it got in over GV or Dissidia or literally any other arena fighter.

>>386485090
Megamix was fantastic though.

>>386488867
>FE musou

Shovelware garbage

>>386489470
Musous still have a decent following even niche ones like DQ and berserk

>>386489791
FE can't even sell it's mainline games. A shovelware spinoff is obviously not gonna make money

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>>386485487

>>386481939
I'm glad people realize this game is better than spla2n

>>386481939
The Switch has no games so literally everyone who bought one will buy every game that comes out to justify their retardation. Every pile Nintendo shits out will be "gold" for awhile.

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>>386481939
>tech demo
>$59.99
>more than a million units sold
>on a new console

Hmmm, what does this tell you about the average Switch owners and Nintenbabbies, /v/?

>>386491703
See >>386491308

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>>386483979
Really? I haven't heard about this. So cool if it's true.

>>386491943
Yep the filenames were mined. Specifically they're called

>Sweet
>Scroll
>Vine
>Surprise
>Lady

There's also a new map called "Crank" and another called "Teleport"

>>386492217
Neat. I'm glad you brought it up. I've been wondering when the next character would show up and it seems we're very close to that time. I'm excited to see the new guy.

>>386485123
LMFAO no, it already failed the donation drive for Evo, now it has to go to kiddy pool Japan where the fierce arena of 5 entrants awaits!!!

>>386492609
ARMS has already had a ton of successful tourneys

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>>386481939
>Growing competitive scene
>Vibrant community
>Probably going to be at EVO Japan

>>386481939
Nintendobros will buy anything their overlords shit out on their new shiny thing and say "BEST GAME EVER NINTENDO FTW!!!!" and after a 2 month period no one can remember why'd they even pay money for this garbage.

the game looks interesting but definitely not worth 60 fucking dollars holy shit does nintendo really expect me to pay premium price for this shit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkJ4NqN7hTU&feature=youtu.be
Who else hyped for the update this week?

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Why does /v/, want ARMS and the Switch to fail?

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>>386494867
for epic BTFO memes

Arms is better than Splatoon honestly

>>386496852

Eh, it has the potential to be better but it'd take a shitload of new modes, characters, stages and arms to bring it to that level.

Hell I'd settle for an update to Nintendo's stupid app that allowed voice chat for Arms lobbies, for the moment.

After playing splatoon since launch I'm starting to miss arms

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Holy shit is this the greatest console ever???

>>386497148
I would've liked a proper story mode, even if it's just Arcade Mode with more conditions on fights with some pictures inbetween every 3 matches. They try building up all this lore stuff on the Twitter etc when it'd benefit being in game the most, and it'd be good motivation to give every character a shot at least once.

> Splatoon faggots are treating ARMS the same way people treated their content lacking shovelware game on launch

This is why we can't have nice things.

>>386497148
Like Smash 64 it was a good idea, so a sequel which improved on virtually all aspects was created. And so an Arms "Melee" will come out that would put Arms into its own and express its ideas and mechanics better.

>>386498763
the first edition of fighting games is always barebones. It's weird that people forget this.

ARMS has roughly the same amount of content as Smash 64 or Street Fighter 1, and as per usual, the sequel will expand upon the game in a way that makes everyone fucking adore it, just like Melee and SF2

dv

>>386499612
I don't know if it will be that good, but sequels are generally good for fighting games. The creators can now observe what people try to accomplish with the mechanics and then develop things to complement that.

>>386487393
I wonder when Tomboys get any love
So far its either lolibait, gay shit or busty long-haired women in all the specials.

Experimenting more with ARMS today made me realize that Ninjara's green gloves, whose name escape me, work really well with Mechanica. Very easy to break grabs with it and god know Mechanica loves getting grabbed.

>>386501451
I think they are called Buffs. They aren't considered as good as B&B's black gloves the Buffs, but are considered a high tier glove that works for every character.

>>386501609
neat

>>386501451

Speaking of Ninjara, why do people keep sleeping on him? He seems like he should be a top tier

>>386504959
I think people forget the block teleport thing exists.

people buy whats avaliable to them. if theres nothing they buy what trickles down.

>>386505019

I realize people didn't like it cause they felt they didn't have control but I realized after watching a nin in a tourney that you're not supposed to hold block with ninjara you're supposed to block right before an attack hits you and move in the direction afterwards. it's more of a counter/punish opener than a block. Seems like it could be OP if mastered

>>386481939
>probably
Nigga, that shits already confirmed

>>386505081
seems like a good marketing plan.

So how long til ARMS hits 2 mil? Do we know what it's current numbers are?

>>386507503

No clue but I imagine it'll be another month or so before we get an update on sales considering how long it took first time around.

>>386507237
good marketing. bad for consumers.

>Datamine says some sort of Sumo

Post your ideas
Looking forward to it since E.Honda didn't show up in SFV

>>386507503

Nintendo only gives numbers during their financial releases, we will only have an update about non-current releases in 3 or so months.

>>386508434

Sumo might just be Master Mummy's development name. The datamine shows a NINJA and CHAIN in separate folders but that are clearly Ninjara.

>>386508553

Master Mummy has nothing to do with a sumo though, but I'll give you that

We still have Suprise and Plant

>>386508434
If we do get a Sumo I can see them having giant hand ARMS that palm strike instead of punch.

>>386509014
>Surprise
>Plant
>Sweet
>Lady
>Scroll

There are the ones that are confirmes to be new characters

I don't really get this game.

Like, controlling punches feels like such a chore.

>>386509819
I can't wait to see what plant and scroll turn out to be.

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For the sake of everyone's sanity I really hope they don't do an in match player cam on ARMS matches at nip EVO.

Hey new art. https://twitter.com/ARMS_Cobutter
I don't think we are getting a new character tomorrow.

>>386510338

Ok I'll bite, why?

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MECHANICA IS CUTE!

>>386510814
I don't really think Spring Man needs a buff, but the art is cute.

>>386482312
Splatoon 2 is only garbage for the aspies that attempt to play it competitively.

Solo playing casual matches is the most fun I've had in a while

>>386487393
Holy shit, my interest in fire emblem died for this

>>386510395

Nintendo wouldn't do a character update without a trailer first.

Biff's text claims they're improving certain ARMS, including boomerang and "one that shoots marbles".

Which would be marble-shooter?

>>386509819

>Not Sumo but Lady

Nigga

>>386510395
>>386510814

>Everytime ARMS get buffed or nerfed it's because echanica is being forced to modify them

>As more updates come MEchanica will be forced to remodel again and again and again

ARMS is a cruel game

>>386511117
Splatoon 2's ranked mode is some of the most fun I've ever had by myself in a multiplayer shooter. I usually have to queue up with friends to have any fun.

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>>386486985
You got to believe, tonight is the night!

>>386511521
Sumo was just an unfinished version of mummy

>>386483179
lt literally is this. They're so starved for games that they'll eat up anything.

>>386511441
Biff mentioned a new surprised. The marble shooter could be a new ARM

>>386511593
I imagine she gets paid for it. She appears to own her scrapyard.

>>386482312
Assblasted ketchup fag here

>mechanica makes actual physical alterations to ARMS for balance purposes

I love the idea that the "updates" are canon

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>>386492217
>>suprise
>tfw the developers wanted to keep something so secret they even thought to hide its real filename from dataminers

>>386482312
Marina lost, Pearl won. Get over it, sweetie. But yeah Splatoon 2 has some big problems they need to fix sooner rather than later.

>>386483979
5 new characters? That would make it 16 characters, a much more acceptable roster.

>>386485196
Holy shit you Smashfags are relentless. Second place to Metroidfags.

>>386481939
There a demo for this? Looks mediocre as hell but I'm admit I'm interested.

Anyone got ideas for cool ARMS characters? I'm thinking a robot made out of computer parts with wire arms and a hacking lore would be cool. Byte and Barq don't satisfy me.

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>>386513403
guest star

>>386513324
No. There was a test fire, like for Splatoon, but no demo.

>>386513403
Pirate or some type of seaman who fights with either tentacle arms or his mustache.

>>386513403
4 legged wolf or dog that fights with 2 giant tails

>>386513403
A WWI soldier with barbed wire for arms, with a thousand yard stare.

>>386514408

knowing japan i could see a kitsune based fighter

>>386481939
It got boring fast.

>>386514952
Fuck yes. That or a giant rabbit that fights with it's ears

Ooo-ooOOOoo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQqwKFd3oJI

>growing competitive scene
not really. The scene is 100% competitive players, casuals have abandoned it. That sounds appealing but when the system you're on is overwhelmingly known for being more casual-oriented and leaning, it's not good. I like ARMS, but I'd absolutely be lying if I said matchmaking was as snappy as it was at launch.

>>386515231
Sounds like your internet is shit

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>>386515128

>>386515303
It's just fine actually, at least, it has no troubles playing the FOTM splatoon 2 right now, matchmakes instantly. ARMS takes upwards of 10 seconds.

>>386515231

actually party mode is easily the more popular of the two modes in terms of player connectivity. on ranked you'll fight the same 5 folk in party rooms fill up pretty quick

>>386515231
I'm at least thankful for the 2GG involvement. The online tournament this weekend was pretty good. I think the top players on the circuit are getting flown to EVO Japan. Though I don't know what type of wonky rule set the Japs use. I've heard it was custom ARMS with Spring Stadium as the only playable stage, but I don't have anything to back that up.

>>386515405

>splatoon
>matchmaking taking anything shorter than 30 seconds

you could just tell us you don't play the game

>>386513403
Some kind of artist either a dahli esque character with a crazy punching moustache or a character with ink splat arms

>>386481939
Since when is Nintendo EAD a literally Who dev?

So what do you guys estimate ARMS is at right now?

1.5 mil? 2 mil?

>>386517053

prolly 1.4

>>386517053
in disapointed owners? id go with the second

why is springman so hot

>>386517457
Colgate

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>>386516768
Ignore OP he's retarded, Yabuki directed Mario Kart 8 too.

The biggest problem with Arms is that Nintendo out of the gate pushed it as competitive, games with actual competitive leagues generally evolved them over time, Valve pushed Dota 2 to become the biggest E-sports competition but Dota initially had a strong rabid following, Starcraft naturally evolved, League of Legends is just Dota for low IQ people, Street Fighter evolved over time, Smash Bros. Melee evolved over time, any game with a strong and dedicated pro circuit evolved that naturally, and I fucking wish companies would understand this.

If Nintendo wanted Arms to be a successful competitive game they would have given people an excuse to buy it with a strong dedicated single player mode, and an excuse to continue playing it with a strong online mode, it has the potential to become competitive and a hit, Nintendo needs to approach this better.

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>>386517685
Why is he so moe? N-n-no homo

>>386518370

People need to stop comparing FGC esports scene with shooting game ESports scene. They're 2 completely different beasts.

For starters shooting games are far more mainstream and popular. Fighting games are much more niche and more importantly the community is much more antiquated.

New shooting games always come out and can always do something slightly different or even completely different and find huge margins of success. But fighting games? Name a fighting game series released in the last 10 years that didn't have some huge franchise backing it or did anything remotely new for the genre?

ARMS has absolutely NOTHING behind it outside it's gameplay to hook people. No DC, no netherealm, no DBZ, no Pokemon, no Tekken, NOTHING to hook people into seeing it as a competitive fighting game. The Nintendo name ends up hurting it even more in that regard.

I'm not saying you're entirely wrong but it's annoying when people have this expectation that ARMS should be at a certain spot only a month and change in and just ignore all the factors working against it outside of how it is as a game. and I'd say considering that it's in a better spot than it has any business being.

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>>386519741
Skullgirls
Yatagarasu
UNIB

What do I win?

>>386519980

>literal who lineup

not much anon, not much.

>>386515231

I don't understand if posts like this are being made by third-worlders or by someone so misguided they think lying about a video game online is worth their troubles. Don't even need 10 seconds to join a room and my Switch's wifi is shitty as hell.

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>>386520110
>literally who
B-b-but /v/ told me Skullgrills will sell just by lewds alone...

>>386519980
Skullgirls was a fucking tragedy. Get Big Band and Filia out of there and put them in a real game.

>>386519980

I should've specified and is popular.

2 of those are crowdfunded ultra niche community games, and 1 has ARC sys behind it and even their games are niche within the fgc niche. but hey fair effort.

I miss when this game used to be called Virtual On.

>>386513403

Flaming transexual with extendildos.

>>386509819

My predictions:

>Surprise
A clown with party horn arms.
>Plant
Demure flower lady with thorny rose arms.
>Sweet
Cute chef girl with taffy arms.
>Lady
Master Mummy's wife with gold ring arms.
>Scroll
Tibetan monk with paper scroll arms.

>>386519980
ARMS has already outsold all of these

>>386520580

Plant is probably the "Tarzan" character with vine arms.

>>386519741
My main point is that I think that companies forcing competitive scenes instead of naturally cultivating them when they start to prop up is stupid, and I'd rather Nintendo have taken the time they spent on trying to make the game for competitive play giving the game more content to make it a more valuable purchase.

My only expectation for Arms was for it to sell 300k copies and then die.

>>386520580

Love all these cept lady. 1 mummy is enough.

>>386520580
Actually plant is already confirmed to be a jungle man. There's another file that refered to the character as "Tarzan"

>>386487393
>appeal to waifufags
>series explodes in popularity

Changing FE was one of the few smart decisions Nintendo has made in the past decade.

>>386520982

You seem to be under the impression that the money spent on the R&D process for this game and the money spent on marketing it are the same thing. Nintendo paying to have it featured in E3 booths isn't taking away from the actual game and the state of it's content and release probably has alot more to do with their release time-frame planned for the Switch of having one game per month than anything else.

>>386520982

Well....it didn't. And to reiterate it managed to sell and survive on nothing more than it's merit as a game. Content is coming too so it's not like this is the end all be all product.

I get what you're saying but nintendo had a direct and a testpunch before any tourney both of which managed to get people into the idea of ARMS which supported their idea to make tourneys for it. They should have released the game at a better time and not forced it to compete with other awaited switch titles so soon into it's lifespan. The game is good and is going to get better with time, as much as people complain about content there's more content in this game then most fighters. Not saying that's a lot but still.

>>386521197
They didn't change anything. They only promoted it properly this time around.

>>386520982
Naturally cultivating scenes is exactly what Nintendo is trying to do. It lines up with everything Reggie has said about smash as to why they don't do pot bonuses. It also lines up with the core philosophy of the Switch. A mobile device that can be used to bring the game to others. Mobile couch co-op. Literally every Switch commercial has twenty something year old people going out and socializing with people through their games. Which is really what esports should be about, and is most definitely what the FGC is about.

>>386521203
No, I'm aware that Nintendo's marketing is counted as a complete annual budget and not set per game, although games will get allocated more undoubtedly, but there's more than that to the competitive side of the game, undoubtedly meetings for the dev team and development time were spent with the idea of E-sports of competitive in mind, and I'd rather have more time spent on even planning post launch content than any meeting on E-sports or competitive scene apart from, the meeting of "there's a chance people may enjoy this game competitively so we may have to actually balance the game at some point".

>>386521216
Arms is a good idea, and to an extent a breath of fresh air for fighting games, I wrongly predicted how successful it was so maybe my not thinking it will get anywhere in the competitive scene is completely off the mark too.

Timing was shit, right before Splatoon 2, what were they thinking, I guess maybe there wasn't any other time they could do it, they needed another title for the first half of the year, and Splatoon needed to launch in the summer.

I'm definitely all in for more content, but the thing I wanted most was a strong single player mode with a really minimal story fighting groups of enemies, maybe something like Adventure mode in Smash Bros. Melee, would have really made the game for me, personally at least.

>>386521687
I'm not going to disagree with you, I think the Switch's portability is great, and valuable for a competitive scene, but that's a more natural thing for enabling a competitive scene, Arms having a tourney at E3, and Arms being put into EVO Japan, feels forced, then there's also it being talked about as "competitive" before it actually got a release, yeah, it felt forced. Ain't got nothing on that game shown at the MS conference with the fucking commentator, or Overwatch.