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curl-6 on 26 August 2013
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:

True, but you don't have to be one of the "Ps xbox crowd" to buy an M rated game. Nintendo gamers will still buy them if they deem them to be desirable enough.


Yes i know that, im just looking at it from a publisher perspective, if they had to choose to release such a game between the 3 and they could only release on one or two. 99 percent of the time it will be the Ninty console getting left out

That's not really relevant here though; the publisher is Nintendo, what are they going to do, publish to a competitor's system and not their own? (Lulz)



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oniyide on 26 August 2013
curl-6 said:
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:

True, but you don't have to be one of the "Ps xbox crowd" to buy an M rated game. Nintendo gamers will still buy them if they deem them to be desirable enough.


Yes i know that, im just looking at it from a publisher perspective, if they had to choose to release such a game between the 3 and they could only release on one or two. 99 percent of the time it will be the Ninty console getting left out

That's not really relevant here though; the publisher is Nintendo, what are they going to do, publish to a competitor's system and not their own? (Lulz)

its not a M rated game either so...now that i think of it Ninty rarely publishes M rated games themselves, I wonder why?



curl-6 on 26 August 2013
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:
oniyide said:

Yes i know that, im just looking at it from a publisher perspective, if they had to choose to release such a game between the 3 and they could only release on one or two. 99 percent of the time it will be the Ninty console getting left out

That's not really relevant here though; the publisher is Nintendo, what are they going to do, publish to a competitor's system and not their own? (Lulz)

its not a M rated game either so...now that i think of it Ninty rarely publishes M rated games themselves, I wonder why?

We were talking about Bayonetta 2. It's almost certain to be M rated.



Boutros on 26 August 2013
curl-6 said:
think-man said:
Now im starting to Wonder if the same will happen to Bayonetta 2?

No.

Bayonetta is a known IP, doesn't have a confused target audience like W101, and will likely get better reviews.

Even if they repeat their stupidity of shipping 30k copies for Japan and releasing it in the US the same week as COD Black Ops 3 or something, it's almost guaranteed to do better than W101. It probably won't be a multi-million seller, but it won't be a flop to this absurd degree.

The fact that they are shipping 30k copies in Japan is based on consumer demand. The game is simply not pre-ordered and so I don't see why retailers would order more copies. 30k is actually a lot.



oniyide on 26 August 2013
curl-6 said:
oniyide said:
curl-6 said:
oniyide said:

Yes i know that, im just looking at it from a publisher perspective, if they had to choose to release such a game between the 3 and they could only release on one or two. 99 percent of the time it will be the Ninty console getting left out

That's not really relevant here though; the publisher is Nintendo, what are they going to do, publish to a competitor's system and not their own? (Lulz)

its not a M rated game either so...now that i think of it Ninty rarely publishes M rated games themselves, I wonder why?

We were talking about Bayonetta 2. It's almost certain to be M rated.


thats more an exception than a rule and that is kinda copublished with Sega



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Mnementh on 26 August 2013
curl-6 said:
bananaking21 said:

well over 20 million of those people will. i know the games have different appeal but GTA is infact pop culture, it has mass appeal. the number of people who will prefer W101 over GTA are very very little, the number of people who will chose GTA are in the millions. there is no way around it, what ever company you love what ever game you prefer, the game releasing 2 days apart from GTA5 is infact stupid and will hurt sales tremendously.

I still cannot believe they're releasing W101 two days before GTA5, what the hell are they thinking? Why not release it simultaneously with Europe, as the English version is clearly finished?

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superchunk on 26 August 2013

Meh, so long as I get my copy.



Incubi on 26 August 2013

*looks at sales chart:

Welp



Mr Khan on 26 August 2013
pezus said:
I didn't even expect it to flop that badly early this year. I expected almost decent sales in Japan and NA, with it certainly flopping in Europe. Now I see it going like this: Japan: Epic flop. Europe: Even more epic flop. NA: Bad to mediocre sales. Overall: Definitive flop of the year

*of the year*, now? Fuse would like to say a few things differently.



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Mnementh on 26 August 2013
burninmylight said:
This game would really benefit from some air time on children's networks like Disney and Nickelodeon.

It's not targeted at children.



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