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Well, Bayonetta was only able to sell well after it hit the bargin bin. If Nintendo is able to overship it like Sega was, it'll get 2 million and match the previous without problem.



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Fusioncode said:
500k lifetime and I'm being optimistic. W101 barely hit 200k.

The Wonderful 101 has done over 200K easily. VGC doesn't take digital sales into account.

Plus The Wonderful 101 was a new IP too.

Bayonetta 2 is from an established franchise and has received a good amount of hype since it was first announced.

Your sales expectation is way off mate, it will do over 1m in lifetime sales without a problem.



spurgeonryan said:
Fusioncode said:
500k lifetime and I'm being optimistic. W101 barely hit 200k.


please! Totally different style of game. Wow101 Was never going to be big. Never! Looks almost like a PS4 eshop game. It was an exclusive. Nothing more.


Agreed. W101 shouldn't even be brought into the argument. It was a new game that only the most ardent Nintendo fan knew of because it was so badly marketed.

At least Bayonetta has over a million people that heard of it because they bought it. Bayonetta is already in a much better position.

I would say if properly promoted it can match the sales of the first Bayonetta which I think did 1m.



honestly, i previously i saw the game doing 400k lt at max, but as the time goes by i can see it hitting 1 million eventually which me thinks would be very good sales considering everything, i think bayo, xenoblade and hyrule warriors will all be million sellers -- and 2 months ago i would have said none of them had a chance of hitting 800k



spemanig said:

The fact that they're bundling the first one proves the opposite. They got Bayo 2 because they wanted Bayo fans. If they thought they'd get them, there would be no need to bundle in the first game. They'd just sell it separately.

I see it selling 600K lifetime. I'm being generous.


Not really. They got Bayo 2 because they wanted Bayo fans, but it's still a game going to a new system and so they'd ALSO want new fans of the game. Bundling the first one is to get new fans, or to encourage older fans to play the game again with new features (like WWHD.)

 

Fusioncode said:
500k lifetime and I'm being optimistic. W101 barely hit 200k.

 

They're different games, and W101 had many things going against it, like coming out a year earlier, being a lot more niche looking and being a new IP.



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I swear Nintendo supporters like apple supporters live in an alternative universe. 500,000 maximum lifetime sales



Zombie U 680k
DonkyK 570k

Anything on U that is +1m in sales has Mario in it. More mature type games like Assasins and Batman did 250k or less.

Id say anything under yet near 1m is very very overly generous, things are not looking positive.



BeElite said:

Zombie U 680k
DonkyK 570k

Anything on U that is +1m in sales has Mario in it. More mature type games like Assasins and Batman did 250k or less.

Id say anything under yet near 1m is very very overly generous, things are not looking positive.

Tropical Freeze has only been out for 5 months though? And WWHD sold a million+

And like I said, now that the fanbase is growing, newer games have a better chance to sell well. I do think ZombiU should have sold more though so that's a bummer.



BeElite said:

Zombie U 680k

DonkyK 570k

Anything on U that is +1m in sales has Mario in it. More mature type games like Assasins and Batman did 250k or less.
Id say anything under yet near 1m is very very overly generous, things are not looking positive.

DKC:TF was just released not too long ago. It could do near 1 Million by year's end.

OT: 600k and I'm being realistic. 



BeElite said:

Zombie U 680k
DonkyK 570k

Anything on U that is +1m in sales has Mario in it. More mature type games like Assasins and Batman did 250k or less.

Id say anything under yet near 1m is very very overly generous, things are not looking positive.


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