| AnthonyW86 said: To be fair if Nintendo hadn't helped the game would have never released and Bayonetta wouldn't have been a franchise to begin with. I wonder how much Nintendo payed though, i think this one will have cost them money in the end. |
I'm almost certain Nintendo won't make money from Bayonetta 2. However, they're normally a pretty frugal company, so it would surprise me if they're on the hook for the entire development cost. It's a pure guess, but I think Sega wanted to see some reinbursement for a cancelled game and took a deal that didn't stick Nintendo for the full cost of work already completed. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a deal based on sales percentages, which would bite Sega on the rear.
As for Nintendo, they obviously expected the Wii U to be much more successful, which would have raised the expectations of Bayonetta 2. Even then, though, I doubt they believed they would see much of a profit and rather were using the IP as a means to draw in a more diverse group of gamers. It's probably going to be a failure in that regard, though most of that is because the Wii U was already in bad shape before Bayonetta 2 even released.
