Your avatar is kind of proof that shitty games will still sell for some strange reason. 

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How can anyone say this without knowing the game's budget?

Let's look at it from Nintendo's perspective. They will likely get about an average of $40 /copy on the low end (digital sales give 100% revenue, and retailers will vary in cost.) $40*500,000 copies sold (current sales) = $20 million in revenue. Do you think this game cost more than $20 million to make and advertise (Nintendo barely spends on marketing)? I think Nintendo could've broken even on it to be honest. They probably spent a quarter of that revenue toward Sega for publishing rights, and the rest to fund game developement. Additionally, we don't know what additional revenue the release of the game has induced in Wii U sales. Even if this game is not a system seller, it diversifies the platform's game library and might cause higher demand for the Wii U, despite it not selling one console in itself. 

From Platinum's perspective. The game lets them have jobs to support their families, while they probably didn't net a huge profit, they are still sustaining their developers. 

From Sega's perspective. They got money to cover whatever investments they put into their version of Bayonetta 2 and probably extra on top of that. 

Maybe I'm missing something though. Maybe costs do exceed revenue. 

Just because I like its cover doesn't mean I like the game itself. Yeah I bought it at launch but it was a buggy mess and obviously its not my fault I bought the game because I didn't know how it would turn out to be.

I don't think the game could have cost more than 35 million dollars , but anyway, Nintendo wanted to put Bayonetta 2 on Wii U to fill the absence of "hardcore" titles in the console and also to continue the expansion of the whole library; and they took it because it didn't have any publisher and the game was certainly going to be good. 

That being said, even if the game was a flop, Smash and Mario Kart 8 are titles made to fill these loses. 

Doesn't change the fact that Unity sold a lot of copies. And you could have just read the reviews lol. 

500k in retail sales so far....
It doesn´t seems that it sold a lot on digital format.

Everybody was expecting more, for sure. But I think if it ends with around 700k in the end of its commercial run (like ZombiU or Lego City Undercover), Nintendo and Platinum will feel ok.

The console has already peaked this year. Just wait for Nintendo's new console in 2016.

Errr...it is your fault because you bought the game at launch. DONT BUY GAMES AT LAUNCH. How hard is it really to wait a day or two? I know this isn't a thread about pre orders, but when are people going to learn that preordering is a terrible practice for everybody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Uj4XIT1Y

X is a MAJOR flop. We need to talk about it.

Your title is lacking. Your OP is missing a lot of statistics. I rate this thread 6.3/10.

It doesn't is that bad compared with what people expected:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=192165

11 thought Bayonetta would break 1 million, 16 thought it would sell below. The average prediction (not counting that 14M joke) is 870K.

Here is the prediction-thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=192165

Seems people weren't this outrageous with their predictions as you try to paint it.