Famitsu review scores (9/16/14) - Bayonetta 2 week

[Mummelmann]

Mr Khan said:

Mummelmann said:
Good review but will it sell? Destiny sold bonkers despite "average" reviews and there are plenty of games that sell poorly in spite of great reviews. I still don't think Bayo 2 will be more than a blip on the market radar when all is said and done, 300k still sounds like the upper limit to me. Even Donkey Kong has only sold about 650k globally thus far (it also had good reviews).

300k when TW101 only tapped out at 250k or so, and this game is much more anticipated?

I'm in the five to seven hundred camp myself.

Not impossible, but I still think those will be tough numbers to achieve for a relatively niche title on a fairly niche platform. I rememeber there were people who believed I was seriously underestimating Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze when I found it unlikely that it would 2 million or more: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=6053346

That was also an anticipated title. I just don't see a significant audience for a game like Bayonetta 2 on the Wii U and the popularity of such games in general seems to have waned a little bit, look at Devil May Cry as an example.
I could be wrong and we'll see pretty soon at any rate, I think it could sell decently in the US but that's pretty much it.