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Originally Posted by totalfailure
The correlation between Kickstarter success and regular retail success is far weaker than most people want to believe. Many times, the Kickstarter more or less completely fills the demand for a given product, leaving it dead on arrival at retail if it does come out that way.
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I'm not surprised to hear that, particularly in the case of releases that target an established fan base, but the specific 'cicada' case mentioned above would almost always be a release targeting an established fan base, so if it can't make it as a kickstarter it certainly wouldn't have been a success in any other way either.