Anytime.

I think its true. Wii U is already breaking all kinds of bad sales records. It's a lesson in terrible marketing.

Why shouldn't there internal strife? You have smart people like Pacher saying the CEO doesn't know what he is doing and that Nintendo should abandon the hardware industry in favor of becoming a strong third party publisher.

I'd say between 70-80% is true.

Except that this is a Nintendo game, so a price drop isn't going to be much of a factor.  In general, Nintendo games do not frop in price for several years, if they ever do.  Even if a retailer takes a standard cut, the numbers still wouldn't work out. 

As for being 1.5x Bayonetta's budget, that's kind of irrelevant unless we can say what Bayonetta's budget is or how profitable it was.  The only thing we can say is that Bayonetta was popular enough for Sega to begin work on a sequel, but not profitable enough to follow through on it.  Other than that, we don't know much of anything.  What we do know is that the profit margin is completely different for Wonferful 101 based on the lack of a platform holder's fee.  7 dollars a console is a big deal.  So, Wonderful 101 would have to be 1.25x as successful as Bayonetta 2 to earn equal profits.

For more corollaries to other games, Capcom expected 2 million in sales from DMC.  We'd have to assume that Capcom's goal for DMC was well above the break even point of the game.  Resident Evil 6 had a target of 7 million.  This was a game with 600 people involved and a huge marketing budget.  If the goal was 100, what was the break even point?  Even if we assume that the break even point was 6 million, then Wonderful 101 cost a third of what RE6 did.  Gears of War 2 cost 12 million dollars for development of the game alone without marketing.  If we assume the 67 million figure from above, and assume Nintendo spent 27 million on marketing (lol) than the game cost more than 3x what Gears of War 2 made.  Gears of War 2 was made on an impressively modest budget, but it's still hard to imagine Wonderful 101 costing that much more.

Going back to the first point, even if Nintendo sold half of the copies at full price, and half at a half price, that still means about $40 million in margin or about 40% of what GTA IV cost to make and market, and about half of what Skyrim cost, and over 3x what Gears of War 2 cost (before marketing).  So, riddle me this.  Why is there any logical reason to think that a straightforward action game with linear progression, modest graphics, no extensive voice acting, no large open world, and very little marketing would cost such an large amount of money? 

Pretty sure Rockstar made a DS game a while ago...

And 2m for W101 sounds unlikely. Bayonetta came out on two platforms at the same time, the PS3 port was outsourced and the publisher wasn't the platform manufacturer either (compared to now).

I don´t buy it.

This picture has to be quoted over and over again !

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You lost me at the W101 one.

Nope.

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I doubt any of this has validity, W101 need 2 million copies to break even? Bullshit.
The game probably needs to sell 500,000 copies to make a slight profit.

Have there ever been any legitimate leaks from Nintendo ?
I´m not talking about the leak of the GamePad before E3 (that was leaked by the third parties)...I can´t for the life of me remember an inside leak from Nintendo.

This sounds like a load of bullshit