Global Hardware Sales 16 December 2017

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curl-6 said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I wouldn't count out Dragon Quest XI or Bayonetta 1+2 that fast. Bayonetta is doing quite well already on amazon and will certainly push the console quite a bit in the west at least, while DQ XI will probably be preferred on Switch than on the 3DS in the west since the latter is a dying platform now.

I actually believe there's a great chance for the Switch being best-selling platform for the first Bayonetta. So basically 10 years after it's release, it found it's platform, too.

The Bayonetta IP, for all its critical and fan adoration, has never been a significant system seller, and Bayo 1 & 2 aren't even new games. 

As for Dragon Quest, that's a Japan-centric franchise, and surely just about everyone who'd buy a system for it there would've already got it on 3DS or PS4?

Bayonetta was largely unknown to the wider public when it came out on PS360, and of course nobody wanted to buy a Wii U just for Bayonetta 2. But with the Switch, I feel it will be different. Not only is the first one now roughly 10 years old (meaning many players of today have missed out on it), but since the second one was on a failed platform (where it sold pretty well compared to the install base of the Wii U). Now both can be enjoyed on a new, much better accepted platform than the Wii U ever was, and in a portable manner to top it off. Believe me, that will sell both software and hardware.

And for the software, just check the Amazon Japan thread, where it performs extremely well

About Dragon Quest, it's doing much better in the west since VIII. It won't do too much in Japan since most have the game already there, but it can push quite a bit in the west where it's yet to be released.