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potato_hamster on 21 January 2016
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theARTIST0017 said:
potato_hamster said:
Don't be surprised if Bayonetta 3 doesn't get made. Based on its sales, and depending on its development and advertising budget I wouldn't be surprised if the game barely broke even. It could possibly have lost money for some of the parties involved.

Put it this way, Bayonetta 1 sold over 2 million copies, and that wasn't enough to make Platinum games make a sequel on its old. Bayonetta 2 sold half that.

 

Well the game selling close to 1 mil, knowing and knowing that the Wii U has sold poorly is very great! It's about the publicity. Bayo 2 got people talking like mad when it got announced so I'm sure it pushed console sales which we all know, the games sell the console. That's exactly what Nintendo wants with the NX

I'm not sure if you know this.... but the Wii U has sold terribly. I mean like remarkably bad. Whatever tactic Nintendo might have been trying very obviously didn't work. If everyone talks about Bayonetta 2, and relatively no one buys a Wii U or Bayonetta 2, then it really doesn't matter if everyone talked about it. If this is what Nintendo wants to do with the NX then it is royally, royally screwed.

Here's the crux of it, 1M in sales might look good, but it might not be actually be good. Like sure 1M in sales is great.... if the money you spent on the games means you make a decent little profit off of a million in sales. If a game like Super Mega Baseball does 1M in sales, that's amazing! That company made millions. If a game like Grand Theft Auto does 1M in sales, then that's horrific, Rockstar lost millions! It all relative.