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curl-6 on 29 August 2013
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Max King of the Wild said:
curl-6 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
After the performance of W101 and soon to be Bayonetta will Nintendo be interested?

Bayonetta will not flop like W101. It's a IP of known quality, it doesn't have an identity crisis like W101 did, and it will be launching to a considerably larger Wii U install base.

I don't know what you would say a "considerably lager user base is" but I certainly wouldn't classify it as that. Anyway, Bayonetta 2 may not flop like W101 will but I really doubt it will be able to break even. Sequel on a manufacturers system who didn't get the first. With a manufacturer that doesn't particularly sell M rated games as well as competition and launching with a small user base (even if it is "considerably larger" it's still small). I mean Bayonetta was a flop in a financial sense. Maybe not a flop in a sales sense but it also certainly wasn't a success so I disagree that it is of "known quality" considering the fanbase it is selling to isn't one that are into playing these types of games or would have been able to play considering it wasn't on a Nintendo platform and it didn't really sell to the fanbase it did launch on.

In summary, Bayonetta will definitly flop in the financial sense. It will sell more then W101 and might be able to put up some okay numbers but definitly nothing impressive.

People don't have to have played the first Bayonetta to know it was highly regarded and loved, and for that to motivate their purchase. Hype and word of mouth are powerful tools. People buy the sequels to games they didn't play all the time because they "heard" the original was great.

As to the financial issue, Bayo 2's budget is unknown at present, so we do't even know how much it would need to sell to break even.

From a pure sales perspective, however, while it may not be a multi-million seller, it's pretty safe to assume it will easily outsell W101.