Bayonetta 2 initially in development for Sega, Kamiya says

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KLAMarine on 24 September 2014

Gotta read the fine contractual details. Anyone here have access to them?

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/thread: get a WiiU.

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badgenome said:

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Sega are idiots.

Looking at sales so far, Sega are smarts.

Sales would have been better had the game released years ago on the PS3/360 or if it would be releasing on PS3/PS4/360/X1 now.

But I mean more in general, Sega are just a trashy game company.

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bananaking21 said:

DerNebel said:
Sega are idiots.

why? the game was gonna flop anyway. this way Sega didnt spend on money on it but got some in return.

See my reply to badgenome

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Vena said:

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- There are, in PG's hard disks, work-in-progress versions of Bayonetta 2 THAT BELONG TO SEGA.

what SEGA would, in theory own, is some unfinished and unutilized code sitting on some computer somewhere not even built for the WiiU's architecture as per the rest of the game. If SEGA wants to turn that into a game, they'd have to literally develop it from what little there might be and use nothing from Bayo2 assets as they don't own those.

We don't know how advanced those versions are. Maybe enough, maybe not. It might also be possible that all versions were developped in parallel, which was exactly the case with Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor Edge, for which PS360 development was kept secret until the last moment.

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ryuzaki57 said:

Vena said:

ryuzaki57 said:

- There are, in PG's hard disks, work-in-progress versions of Bayonetta 2 THAT BELONG TO SEGA.

what SEGA would, in theory own, is some unfinished and unutilized code sitting on some computer somewhere not even built for the WiiU's architecture as per the rest of the game. If SEGA wants to turn that into a game, they'd have to literally develop it from what little there might be and use nothing from Bayo2 assets as they don't own those.

We don't know how advanced those versions are. Maybe enough, maybe not. It might also be possible that all versions were developped in parallel, which was exactly the case with Ninja Gaiden 3 Razor Edge, for which PS360 development was kept secret until the last moment.

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fleischr said:
Nintendo wouldn't have moneyhatted the whole project if they hadn't secured full exclusivity on Bayonetta 2.

Why didn't they do that for Ninja Gaiden Razor Edge or Rayman Legends then?

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ryuzaki57 said:

fleischr said:
Nintendo wouldn't have moneyhatted the whole project if they hadn't secured full exclusivity on Bayonetta 2.

Why didn't they do that for Ninja Gaiden Razor Edge or Rayman Legends then?

Nintendo didn't pay for development of either of those games.

Did you ever see Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes on the PS2 or XBox? Nope, because Nintendo financed the development of that game (as a project for Silicon Knights).

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pokoko on 24 September 2014

It's all complete speculation without knowing the terms of the contract between Sega and Nintendo. There are any number of provisions that could take this one way or the other. Until a multi-platform edition appears, I'm going to assume Nintendo has the game wrapped up.

Though, that being said, it would surprise me if Nintendo bought the whole game out-right without buying the IP. Seems like that would be a bad investment.