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Burek on 13 June 2014
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I think LBP3 will sell the most. It will be out in November, and will be against very few games aimed toward a younger audience. A LBP - PS4 bundle could do solid business during the Holiday shopping season.

I think Bayonetta will do decently, and will definitely attract a portion of current WiiU owners looking for a more adult fare. However, I doubt it will attract many newcomers interested in the game, because it will be tough to justify the purchase of a system with very few adult games. I see Bayonetta more as a catalogue title for people picking up WiiU a couple of years from now when it drops in price.

Sunset Overdrive, I feel will be the biggest commercial disappointment this fall. It seems to juvenile for serious shooter fans, and too violent for a younger audience. (Personally, that last trailer was very irritating, the main character is horrible). I don't know who they are aiming for here: Shaun White skating fans, fans of Saint's Row type off-the-wall humor, Dead Rising fans...?
However, I think it would have had solid numbers had it released this April, or in Feb/March 2015.
MS has chosen a strange date, going head-to-head with their promoted 3rd party AssCreed, which should generate the most sales. Even gives them a quandary of releasing both games in a bundle, because if they choose to bundle only AssCreed, SO is screwed.

I don't even dare to predict the numbers, but for SO I see it doing closer to Kinect Sports Rivals than to Dead Rising 3. (so, about 500K)
Bayonetta I have no other game to give me relevance, The only thing I can think of is that its audience is probably the core base buying Batman, AssCreed and CoD on WiiU, so somewhere about 250-300K. Actually, I'll say 350-400K, allowing a fraction of Sony/MS owners to pick up the console just for this game.

LBP3 is the only one I see going over a million. If Knack managed to sell 600K (excluding Japanese bundled sales) at the beginning of the generation, and it was not a very exciting game in the long run, I see a lot of potential for this game, as I said, if it comes bundled with the console, it will easily surpass a million.