uh, so the title is meant to come off as it does, and to have the effect that it does on the usual suspects (people who insist the wii u is always overtracked, that bayonetta 2 would sell 250k ltd, etc.--you know who they are).
but anyway, as a return thread after leaving the forums for the holidays, just wanted to note that the wonderful 101 has outperformed its launch year (2013) sales in 2014, suggesting this is a game with serious legs. anecdotally, it is heavily stocked at walmarts, targets, etc., even if it's not available online (except at amazon), and at 29.99 (digital and physical) it's a perfect impulse buy even tho it's a quirky looking game (looks are not deceiving in this case). if this continues and it does even half of what it did in 2013/14 in 15 and 16, then this will be a 500k ltd title. this looks likely to me.
as for bayonetta 2, there's been a lot of hue and cry about how it's overtracked in the us, but that's the result of a gaf post with no verification. it has not been revised downward, so i imagine ioi is reasonably confident in his north america figures. anyway, this is a game that is probably going to hit 600k physical either by the end of the year or in january. i see it as selling 1m ltd, as it's consistently outselling week by week the original on both the 360 and the ps3. at this point, how can there be any doubt?
and all of this is, in both cases, without taking digital sales into account--remember w101 was a mk8 promotion title in pal regions, and bayonetta 2 is ripe for a price cut to $40, tho even without that it's consistently outselling sunset overdrive on amazon us hourly, for example, at a way higher price.
tl;dr: bayonetta 2 1m+, w101 500k ltd. (currently: bayonetta 2 540k after two months, w101 290k after a year and a half.)
thoughts?
