Please Bayonetta, you deserve much more.....
Stupid modern gaming trends/cool/culture/popularity stuff.

As fatslob mentioned, this game is not a success by any stretch.

For Japan, before exiting the top 30 after 3 weeks, the game was listed under 50k for both main trackers. Being generous, lets say the game reached 60-65k. We will get the media create top 1000 for 2014 soon so we will have some definite numbers but this game looks like it will not move further than that and I'm sure Nintendo is not sending any more extensive shipments of the game there.

For Europe, Bayonetta 2 was only listed in top forty (for UK) for one to two weeks and for the top ten in other regions for about the same timeframe. The game shows up in the top ten Wii U lists but those game sales are normally

your shipments are being pulled from where, exactly? (i have an idea, but it's not polite to say.) it's already exceeded 200k in na, has done so since about the second week, and there have been no supply constraints anywhere. if anything, there were anecdotal supply constraints at launch which have since been eased by nintendo increasing supply.

as for the neogaf "figure," if you read the op, you'd see that's largely unsubstantiated. there's been no downward revision here and we have no hard and fast official figures.

i am willing to bet on 1m ltd for bayonetta 2 (retail only). bayonetta 1 only got the figures it got because it went to the bargain bins instantly. bayonetta 2 is outselling 1 handily week to week.

there are no hard and fast figures of any official nature available. i'll take vgchartz's spelled out sales projections over a throwaway, unsupported claim on gaf any day. but we'll get sales figures in march if not sooner from nintendo. i'm suggesting they'll be closer to vgchartz than they will to gaf. this game is at 600k digital+retail and will be at 600k retain in a couple of weeks. that's all.

Unless of course you ask people who've actually played it or PlatinumGames themselves.

Do you suppose Sunset Overdrive is a flop as well? Both Bayo 2 and SO have had pretty similar sales, yet no one creates posts on how SO is a flop.

You mean like treating vgchartz numbers as fact ("bayonetta 2 540k after 2 months") even though they have been proven severely inaccurate time and time again? I'd much rather believe an undisputed number leak in an Neogaf NPD thread than vgchartz numbers, that get adjusted every other week.

Especially since the October and November Bayonetta 2 numbers were actually leaked by different people.

and that's with microsoft giving it away for free, basically.

Still bayonetta deserved more love, it was a 10/10 game

link to "different people," please. and it's in the nature of "number leaks" that it's difficult to dispute them. because most people are not privy to the official figures.

I don't get you people. Bayonetta is PG best selling IP. No wonder its successor sells 'relatively' well.