No. I am saying the opposite of what you're thinking. They need to reintroduce their community to mainstream third party games all over again and in a healthy manner working side by side. In this they can associate them with games that used to be multiplatform or and have a console that other gamers who are solely Playstation or Xbox would look at and say "Damn I have to have that". Its not just about what you make but the community you create and how you wield that. If you do not understand that the money you are throwing at certain games is all for nothing. I don't even want to know how much The Last Story sold on the Wii even with a userbase of a 100 million people. I dont think it sold very well.

600k

When I first saw Bayonetta I instantly dismissed it, I hated the Bayonetta character design and had no intention of buying it. A fair bit after release I saw a new copy being sold at my local game retailer for practically nothing (£2), so I snapped it up.

Whilst a bit cheesey I loved the game and it's fluid combat. I would say it was probably the best 3rd person action/hack n slash game of the 7th generation.

The game sold just under 2M copies worldwide, and developed a cult following. I would certainly buy a sequel but I have no intention of buying a Wii U solely for it.

In the 2012-2013 time frame those are terrible sales on a console that has sold 100 million. Luckily its old tech, so it just might have squirmed by because of the old kit and its cheaper to make.

to the one who mentioned bayonetta 2's  preorders as being low, I just checked it. ps3 preorders for bayonetta ended with 32k for US, X360 had 35k. first week was 53k for ps3 and 90k for 360.

bayo 2 is siting at 22.5k right now, with 1.3k being added the last week. considering we have at least 20 weeks left (if the game releases around may) and that the bulk of pre orders increases as launch aproaches, it's pretty much a given that bayo 2 pre orders will easily top the first one.

The people who like Bayonetta LOVE Bayonetta, and clearly they don't want to have to buy a Wii U just to play that game. So I can understand the denial that it can never ever come to PS4bone (or PS360).

But we'll see how much their love for the game goes. I think Bayonetta is good far at least a few hundred thousand more Wii Us being sold than would otherwise be the case, because quite a few people will buy Wii U for Bayonetta who otherwise would not buy a Wii U.

Unfortunately I also think Bayonetta 2 will sell less on Wii U than Bayonetta did on Xbox 360. So the only reason Platinum won't lose money from Bayonetta will be from Nintendo's financial backing. It is too bad for the series, because I think if B2 came out across all 3 new gen platforms it would sell very well as a good quality game with not as much competition for gamer $$ as there was for B1 when it came out. I think a multiplatform B2 would probably have done well enough to justify B3, but I don;t think a Wii U B2 will do well enough to justify B3.

What? I seriously don't undertand how someone could think that those two things are the same.

So, let me get this straight. If xenoblade was a third party game and was released on the wii, made an audience over the years and then Sony paid them to make a sequel available only on ps3, you'd be fine with that? How many people buy (or can afford/justify the purchase of) a second console just for one game? It's kind of ridiculous to make a sequel in a new consloe and expect your audience to buy a new console for that game alone. Not blaming sega or ninty, just pointing out that this has nothing to do with install base or people being cry babies. If Wonderfull 102 is released on ps4/xbone and not on wiiu, ninty fans would have every right to complain. What if it becomes an xbone exclusive and you already have a wiiu and a ps4. Do you get yet another console for one game? 

But Bayonetta was a completely new ip, no? Don't new ips from non well establised (e.g. Bungie, Naughty dog, etc) studios sell bad on launch week? It would follow that the game's sales would be more front loaded, so pre-orders may not be a good indication of its success.

Better spent on what?

The Conduit profited at 500k, at that was likely a more expensive production than TLS with its Hollywood voice actors and heavy investment in engine development. TLS sales aren't bad at all for a new IP JRPG in this day and age.