it is not meant to be a big seller, it will sell 3-500k wii us to a small but dedicated fanbase, like hyrule warrior.

it will not reach 1 million. what an excellent business decision.

Yeah sub-1million I think. But it's a hardcore game on what's perceived as a soft core console. So it's not there to sell millions it's there to give Wii U street cred. But the question is will it give Wii U the amount of street cred Nintendo is looking for. They went for.

nintendo doesn't have just a 20 million audience.

Yeha i just read this on another site. soooo Stupid, Nintendo need to reverse this decision before launch. 

Porcupine_I said: I'm glad so many here agree with my prediction

That's how you see that it is not bold enough.

It is not a question of sales alone (though Wonderful 101-level sales would be a disaster), but also how big was the development budget. If Bayonetta 2 cost a lot more to make than 1, then the sales need to be far greater to cover for the expense.

A hit is determined by profitability, not just number of copies sold.

The install base of WiiU does concern me however. 1 Million copies best case scenario, IMO.

I'm so glad the original Bayonetta comes for free, i never played it for some reason and when Bayonetta 2 comes out i will be able to.

Anyway, the game should do similarly to the original

Bayonetta 2 won't get anywhere near 2 million and will probably end up losing money. While Nintendo didn't know that the Wii U would perform so badly, they probably knew going in that Bayonetta 2 likely wouldn't add to their bottom line. My belief is that they were willing to accept that in order to add a game with a more adult aesthetic to their platform. Clearly their own development studios aren't going to change their style so they elected to buy games like Bayonetta 2 and The Devil's Third instead.

Their audience is much bigger than 20 million. The 3DS proves that by its self.