ECM on 24 September 2012
| arcane_chaos said: my only question is why SEGA didn't fund Bayonetta 2 as supposedly that's reason why Bayonetta 2 was cancelled, the game sold roughly 2 mil copies and got many positive reviews, did the game not make a profit? |
SEGA's recent financial woes means they can't really afford to fund anything that isn't a guaranteed, sizable, seller, so it's possible that 2 mil copies (or what they assumed to sell on the sequel.after dev costs and marketing) wasn't a risk they can currently afford to take.
(I'm sure that it also didn't help that the whole Platinum deal was, for SEGA, almost assuredly a sizable money-loser, see: Vanquish, Mad World, and Anarchy Reigns, the last of which was an utter and complete bomb in Japan.)
