W101 have sold 52,000 in Japan, versus the 11,000 in France...

Even in Europa the sales are less. (48K VS 52K)

But the +50% of sales are in Nord America with 120,000.

About 2x good of an opening as TW101 in Japan. And maybe that's all you can really ask for.

Meanwhile the game is still very hyped in NA and Europe. These ideas to make Bayo 2 multiplatform again, barely 1 week into Japan sales, are quixotic, boring, and frankly just stupid.

It'll be interesting to get some Japan HW numbers for the week and the week following. I'd be surprised if we don't see *some* kind of boost in that time period. Because FFV launches soon too.

Nintendo owns the gamecode for Bayonetta 2 (Kamiya already explained this, and any porting will be Nintendo's call not SEGAs), not the IP. SEGA can release Bayonetta 3 all they want, wherever they want so long as they fund it themselves, but they cannot use the code of Bayonetta 2 to make a port without Nintendo's consent as Nintendo owns said code. If SEGA were to release a Bayonetta 2, it would have be rebuilt entirely and uniquely from the ground up without using any of the Bayonetta 2 (WiiU) code assets.

If SEGA tried to port the game from the current code, they'd get sued into oblivion because they don't own the game, they own the IP. They gave up all rights to the gamecode when Nintendo stepped in and picked up the cancelled project, and funded it. Nintendo isn't stupid enough to not take ownership of the code in such a deal, and we know they have ownership of it from Kamiya.

Frick. I hopebayonetta does much better in the US. For once in its life platinum games deserves a successful game. Although I'm super hyped for scalebound I doubt it'll sell well and it looks like Bayonetta won't either. DX

So nobody can discard the possibility of Bayo2 on other platforms, right?

It would have to be a completely different game, might as well call it Bayonetta 3 at that point. There's also a murky gray area as whether or not SEGA can 1:1 copy the game even if they did rebuild it from scratch. (And why would they even bother? The expense would be larger than if they had just funded the project themselves, and they'd have to redo all the work from zero anyway. Might as well make Bayonetta 3.)

If people would have bought the game on 360 and PS3, Bayonetta 2 would have come out on PS3/360. They didn't and Nintendo picked it up off the scrap heap. How many times does this have to be stated?

That said, did anyone really think the game would sell well in Japan? The first game wasn't a hit in Japan. Bayonetta 2's best chance at success has always been the West and that was always a dicey proposition. I'm just glad Nintendo picked the game up so I can buy it. Otherwise I never would have gotten the opportunity.

its a third party.

yeah probably nintendo killed this franchise farewell bayonetta, although it was dead anyway. at least bayo 2 exists.

I doubt SEGA would be assed to make a port of a game they did not believe was worth their time and money. Plus if they did ported it to the PS4/XONE it would be an atrocious port.

People with brains know that the Wii U is a flopping machine and PG makes flop games. Put two and two together and BAM. 

We don't need to talk about this.