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deadly2choke on 17 April 2013
Lafiel said:
Cobretti2 said:

I dont think it will sell well on any platform TBH, since all the hardcored Bayonetta fans promissed they would kill themselves. 

eh.. I'll give you a star sticker as consolation price, but face it, you are no badgenome




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zumnupy10 on 17 April 2013
BasilZero said:
zumnupy10 said:
kowenicki said:
We didn't like Bayonetta sales so we though we'd put it on just the WiiU?

Genius.

They may make some money on it if it due to the money paid to them for the exclusivity, but they pretty much killed any possibility of it becoming a successful franchise in the longer term.

Very short term of them. I guess they are financially desperate.

It's not like they had any choice.  Sega had cancelled Bayo2 due to the poor sales of the first game, before Nintendo decided to partner with them to make the game for WiiU.


Well no offense to the series (I still need to get the first one and will get the sequel on Wii-U eventually) but if the first game didnt do so well on both xbox360 and ps3...I cant imagine how its gonna be successful in number of units sold on a system that has a way smaller userbase - if Sega cancelled it, no doubt in my mind that Nintendo is gonna cancel any ideas for a future sequel. At least the hype of it being exclusive will be bought by people who dont buy other game systems providing they buy it....maybe we can see a part 3 from nintendo again :O.

The game didn't do so well because it wasn't so good.

It's a very overestimated game in my opinion. 



Wagram on 17 April 2013

Didn't sell well enough on 2 consoles that has that demographic....but let's limit it to one console that may or may not have it. Not exactly an intelligent move in my opinion.



corso772 on 17 April 2013

well the vita sucks



S.T.A.G.E. on 17 April 2013

Hes not going to like the sales from Bayonetta 2. Beat em ups were built on Nintendo and Sega platforms but evolved into modern hack n slash on the Playstation. Still very smart of Nintendo to pay for it to be made exclusively though.



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Ji99saw on 17 April 2013

I just got banned for my Opinion that this game will fail, yet all evidence seem to poin in no other direction. The first one was disappointing so release on a system that has less of an install base and in a market that does not care about the game. Dare I say Genius logic



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cunger on 17 April 2013
KHlover said:
DanneSandin said:
Man, if he didn't like the Bayo1 numbers he'll hate the Bayo2 sales :P

With the audience of the WiiU and the amount of consoles currently sold I'd say anything above ~150k sales in the first month and 500k LT is a success...


The audience of wiiu?  It's not hitting mainstream anytime soon..Will be a core audience for some time. I've never met a casual who's heard of it.



S.T.A.G.E. on 17 April 2013
arcane_chaos said:
Vanquish 2!!! MAKE IT NOW!!!!


Even worse than Bayonetta sales. That game has no hope of a sequel unless someone goes out of their to pay Segas tab on the publishing.



ethomaz on 17 April 2013

No game ever sold what Platinum wanted lol lol lol

Rising proved to be a flop too even with the Metal Gear name.



A203D on 17 April 2013

I'm confused, according to Vgchartz Bayonetta sold 1.8-2 mil copies. Are those figures wrong because Platinum Games have quoted a figure of about 1 mil?

Anyway I think going with Nintendo was a mistake. But Bayonetta 2 will be amazing, so I'm happy Platinum Games managed to get funding for the title. Looking forward to what they have up their sleeve. Their one of the best developers in the world.