I don't really approve of Beyonetta on Wii U as exclusive because according to the data, all that has happened is that the majority of the fanbase has been separated from the series. Games should follow the audience IMO. Games shouldn't be used as ransom to make you buy into a product. This happens in all sorts of industries though. Its like 75% of their audience just vanished. They are going to need every penny the sold the series for.

If it turns out a dud in the west, It would really be in Nintendo's best interest to make that happen. Probably won't happen though, they held onto twin snakes even after the Gamecube's death, so they'd probably hold onto this.

Terrible Bayonetta 2 numbers. As terrible as PS4 performance in Japan.

I don't trust VGC numbers but you and I both know that Japan is currently the weakest market outside of Monster hunter.  Bayo 2 will do ALOT more in the west in its first week than in Japan.

Safe to say, Nintendo won't hire Platinum for anything except make games with established Nintendo characters going forward. 

Imagine W101 sales with chars from Smash Bros. It would prolly be a million seller by now.

Thought Bayonetta 2 would open below 20k judging from the COMG and Tsutaya charts so this is a whole lot better than I had expected, but still far from the opening I had hoped for. Hopefully it'll do better in the west.

Bayonetta bombed as expected, Ubisoft exec was correct in saying there is no place for mature content on WiiU.

And this will mark the third and final week that XOne is above 1K, ever. It will struggle to reach 100K lifetime it seems.

mario kart 8 3dworld and new supermario bros u and exluding smash bros they wait for mario party 10:P  hyrule warriors boosted wii u form 9k to 14k and then from 14k to 18k and sold double what bayonetta wind waker hd sold:Pas i aforesaid wind waker sold 30k in japan first week(1m+LTD),well a zelda remake cannot be compared to bayonetta(to hyrule warriors of course it can) however this shows that taking japan as an indication for good or bad sales in the west  isnt so right...lets wait for the western release to call it a flop or a decent success:P

XB1 still above 1k! Impressive.

Terrible debut for Bayonetta 2. Doesn't bode well for the rest of the world

lmao

Clearly you are the on in denial.  Reality it just debutes to 39k selling less then half its shipment and doing less then its predecessor on freaking xbox 360 in JAPAN.  It wont or will none actually none give a fuck, but their are realities in business.  If B2 is a flop it fails to help ninty then why should they suffer the costs ? they might as well let it go and funnel the $ else where.