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badgenome on 07 February 2013
JGarret said:

Rich is a master troll!

He is. Jim Sterling should take notes. This is how it's done.



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Max King of the Wild on 07 February 2013

This probably explains nintendo direct now



Screamapillar on 07 February 2013
AlphaCielago said:
pezus said:
osed125 said:
pezus said:
I thought the WiiU features would make this unportable.
Ubisoft must've wanted more sales and not liked the WiiU sales figures much. Good for them, this will get them at least triple the sales (probably considerably more)

Now for Bayonetta 2...and the circle will be complete.

Nintendo is publishing Bayonetta 2, so the chances are very limited with that game, plus Nintendo will keep that game close to heart, they won't give the publishing rights to anyone else.

OT: Why not release the game before on the Wii U? this doesn't make much sense really. And like people already said, on September you are going to compete with GTA V, very stupid decision Ubisoft...


Did Nintendo not publish Ninja Gaiden WiiU? What makes you think Nintendo will keep the game close to heart?

Wasn't Ninja Gaiden 3 already released earlier. It's different if you just add things to the game, in comparison to when you have the whole game and it's not released on other systems yet. 

Edit: nevermind



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Screamapillar on 07 February 2013
Asriel said:
Max King of the Wild said:
People saying this game is complete

- It probablly isn't. It doesn't make ANY sense to sit on a completed project and not get revenue from it. This is an unsound business move. Now you can probablly argue the reason why it isn't complete is because they shifted focus to the other versions laging the development.

People saying Bayonetta 2 is published by Nintendo

- Other games were suppose to be published by Sony or MS which have since gone multiplatform.


Did not Platinum say "Without Nintendo, Bayonetta 2 would not exist" ?? Aren't Nintendo also co-developing that as well as Wonderful 101? I doubt it's just a publishing deal, if that's the case. It's more like Nintendo's exclusivity on The Last Story, but without Nintendo buying the IP as well.

No one knows the specific terms of the agreement between NCL and Platinum, but suffice it to say, Nintendo literally paid Platinum to resurrect Bayonetta 2.  The only caveat was that it be a Wii U exclusive.  Platinum gives Wii U the highly sought-after exclusive, and Nintendo does the rest.  They're paying for all of the publishing, which is a fortune.



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Mnementh on 07 February 2013

I'm happy for PS360-owners to get the game, but why the horrible delay Ubi?



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osed125 on 07 February 2013
pezus said:
osed125 said:
pezus said:
I thought the WiiU features would make this unportable.
Ubisoft must've wanted more sales and not liked the WiiU sales figures much. Good for them, this will get them at least triple the sales (probably considerably more)

Now for Bayonetta 2...and the circle will be complete.

Nintendo is publishing Bayonetta 2, so the chances are very limited with that game, plus Nintendo will keep that game close to heart, they won't give the publishing rights to anyone else.

OT: Why not release the game before on the Wii U? this doesn't make much sense really. And like people already said, on September you are going to compete with GTA V, very stupid decision Ubisoft...


Did Nintendo not publish Ninja Gaiden WiiU? What makes you think Nintendo will keep the game close to heart?

People have it wrong on this one. NG3 was co-published by Nintendo, they were not the main publishers (Tecmo was), that means both companies had publishing rights of the game, so there were less "bottlenecks" to either of both companies to do "whatever they want" in terms of publishing the game. 

Bayonetta 2 is purely "owned" (in terms of publishing) by Nintendo. Before you say anything, the Sega logo on the trailers is because Sega is helping developing the game (and they still have the rights of the IP) they don't have any publishing rights as far as I know. Sure a port could happen but it could be something similar to ME1 which took 5 years to appear on the PS3.



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pokoko on 07 February 2013

So Bayonetta 2 being made exclusive good, Rayman Legends going multi-platform bad?

Anyway.

Delaying the game for all three makes sense, actually. First, there won't be a needless duplication of advertising costs, and second, it's obvious the Wii U's installed base isn't where Ubisoft thought it would be, so they'll take hurting sales on that platform over possibly hurting sales on the other platforms. Seems pretty logical. Again, it's a simple situation where two consoles with a huge installed base > a single console with a tiny installed base.



AlphaCielago on 07 February 2013
Screamapillar said:
AlphaCielago said:
pezus said:
osed125 said:
pezus said:
I thought the WiiU features would make this unportable.
Ubisoft must've wanted more sales and not liked the WiiU sales figures much. Good for them, this will get them at least triple the sales (probably considerably more)

Now for Bayonetta 2...and the circle will be complete.

Nintendo is publishing Bayonetta 2, so the chances are very limited with that game, plus Nintendo will keep that game close to heart, they won't give the publishing rights to anyone else.

OT: Why not release the game before on the Wii U? this doesn't make much sense really. And like people already said, on September you are going to compete with GTA V, very stupid decision Ubisoft...


Did Nintendo not publish Ninja Gaiden WiiU? What makes you think Nintendo will keep the game close to heart?

Wasn't Ninja Gaiden 3 already released earlier. It's different if you just add things to the game, in comparison to when you have the whole game and it's not released on other systems yet. 

Note:  Nintendo did publish Ninja Gaiden in the west.  Hence, all the time they spent on it in their Nintendo Directs and using it in all of their promotional materials over the holiday.  Same as they're doing with LEGO City.


Well it was still released earlier on the other systems. Lego City is another story, when it comes to that. However, I do think I get what you mean, but I really don't think that Lego City will release outisde of Wii U and 3DS.  



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Mr Khan on 07 February 2013
pezus said:
Mr Khan said:
pezus said:
I thought the WiiU features would make this unportable.
Ubisoft must've wanted more sales and not liked the WiiU sales figures much. Good for them, this will get them at least triple the sales (probably considerably more)

Now for Bayonetta 2...and the circle will be complete.

Bayonetta 2 is DIFFERENT. Why do people not understand this?

Yes, but how different? It's not like ME1 wasn't ported to PC/PS3, Gears to PC, Razor's Edge to PS3/360 etc.

It took 5 years and a studio buyout for it to go to PS3, while even to get it to go to PC, EA supposedly had to make some deal with Microsoft (i forget what it was, but some bargain was struck).

As far as anyone knows, Nintendo owns the publishing rights to Bayonetta 2, the game, solely, while rights to the Bayonetta IP are shared by Sega and Platinum Games.



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Signalstar on 07 February 2013

Yay. I knew it from day 1 that this would go multiplat. Origins is one of my favorite games ever. I was planning on buying this game with a WiiU at launch until it was delayed. Now I'm not sure when I'll pick up a Wii U.



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