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Wyrdness on 01 February 2018
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vivster said:
Darc Requiem said:

Bayonetta 2 started off as a 360/PS3 game. Sega cancelled it. If Nintendo didn't pick it up, it wouldn't have been released. It was dead IP. This isn't the case  of hardware maker taking a hugely popular game franchise and locking it behind exclusivity. The revived a cancelled game. If Sega thought Bayonetta 3 would be a big seller. They wouldn't have made an agreement for the third game. As much as enjoy Bayonetta it's a niche franchise. If you're a fan of the series, you should be happy to have option to continue playing it. 

What the fuck is a dead IP? Thousands of IPs haven't been used for years and people still pray for them to become back. An IP is dead if the trademark expires and not a second before that. And if anyone knows something about unused IPs it's Nintendo.

As a fan of an IP I would be happy if the eventual game is the best version of what it could be and not an intentionally gimped version that is only available to a select few. Contrary to popular opinion I'd rather eat nothing than shit. There are plenty of great games out there that do not cripple themselves, that I can play while waiting for a proper execution of my favorite IP. Ask all the Bayonetta fans that couldn't or didn't want to afford a Nintendo console how happy they are that Bayonetta lives on, because for them it might as well not exist at all. And looking at the sales that's apparently the majority of Bayonetta fans.

I had this discussion already a long time ago and the facts haven't changed. No one owes Nintendo anything because anyone else could've done the same and probably even better if they had just waited long enough.

PG themselves said the franchise was officially dead and that they weren't going to go back to it, after SEGA and other publishers refused to pick the game up they were going to shelve the series for good and move on it was only by chance that Nintendo stopped by for something else and someone pitched it to them being the only publisher not approached yet while they were waiting to sort out other business.

Argue what if scenarios all you like but what they've told you is true, most Bayonetta fans are happy it lived on many of the people complaining never bought the games to begin with otherwise the original wouldn't have been a commercial disaster, it's a case of complain because it's not on my platform.