Giggs_11 said:
outlawauron said:
Would it really? Bayonetta 2 doing a million wouldn't be bad, but it'd certainly be disappointing. Series has grown a ton in popularity since the first one came out, it's also on a console that zero competition for that genre.
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I don't agree with your reasoning.
1) How come would it be disappointing if Bayo1 sold around 1,8M in a 160M install base consoles? The series can't have grown a popularity higher than those 1,8M sales for sure and I bet 90% of those aren't on Nintendo's consoles. I wouldn't say popularity amongst Nintendo fanbase, but rather curiosity since most probably didn't get to play the 1st.
2) As far as the genre argument, that ain't quite true. And even if it was true, that doesn't equal sales. If a console is missing a genre/as lack of games of certain genre, doesn't mean it will sell if they put a game of that genre on it, means exactly the opposite, that it doesn't sell. WiiU barely has any FPS on it, why? Because publishers aren't happy with those sales. Any FPS selling 1M on WiiU would be a huge success, even though there is a shortage of FPSs on it.
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Firstly, Bayonetta wasn't profitable. (Can't image how much money was lost on W101 since that costed MORE than Bayonetta). Second, the series has had great word of mouth and it has had fantastic buzz surrounding it.
How is my genre argument not true? There is no great action games on the Wii U, and please don't say Razor's Edge because it isn't a very good game. Only other title that kinda fits is W101 and it's quality is debatable. Nintendo's fanbase has shown a lot of willingness to buy games in underrepresented genres when pushed by Nintendo. Look at Tales of Symphonia on the Gamecube. Pushed a mediocre RPG to 2nd highest selling in the series. There's plenty of examples of this.
