If I'm not mistaken, the ps3 version was a late port and didn't run as well as the others so it could have sold much better and yes I'm using the same argument used for third parties games on Wii U and I disagree bayo 2 selling close at least to ps3 version considering it's overtracked in US, there's no way reaching near ps3 without expanding greatly its userbase.

I'm curious how an M rated game, meaning 18+ years old, could be aimed at 12-14 year old boys. That's like Absolut gearing up an ad campaign to get 10 year olds interested in vodka. Granted, parents are idiots these days and buy minors M rated games without having any idea what the M rating means, or simply not caring, but for the most part, M rated games are aimed at college kids.

The primary audience for GTA is teens and preteens. Ask a 12 year old boy about GTA and very likely he'll have played it. Ratings don't do shit to keep M-rated material out of the hands of kids, either their parents disregard it, or the kids get it from their friends or older siblings.

Sure, they may have played it/own it, as I said, but the intended audience is an older crowd, otherwise the game would be toned down to have a T rating. Marlboro isn't intending to sell cigarettes to teenagers, althought they can easily do such do to leinent shops, etc.  Should they be playing games like GTA? Probably not, hell, I had a kidergarten student tell me last year they played GTA. Does it make it right? No, was it Rockstar/Take 2's intended userbase? I'd seriously doubt it.

I'm just saying, M rated games are aimed to have the "mature" crowd (and I use that term VERY loosely) as their intended audience. Bad parenting is bad parenting, thus why people should be required to get licenses in order to have kids, but the companies can be held to certain standards by the ratings boards.

What's Xbox's excuse then?

Bayonetta simply doesn't sell on any platform. The Wii U and is userbase are not to blame, the game's niche style is.

"I don't think there's any guarantee Bayo 2 would have sold much better on Playstation or Xbox"  I responded based on this quote and this quote include playstation so I reply to you to tell you that it could have sold better on ps3 if it wasn't a game that runs badly and based of how overtracked the game is in US, I don't see it getting near to ps3 numbers, about 360 numbers? it might be close or it might not, very difficult to tell, that said, I believe that the game will have flopped on any platform regardless of how much it would have sold individually.  maybe it's because the game has a feminine protagonist or because the genre is not as popoular as it used to be.

Tomb Raider has a female protagonist.

Wii U owners need to buy better game. Very sad news. But I am not surprised by this.

"I don't think there's any guarantee Bayo 2 would have sold much better on Playstation or Xbox"  I responded based on this quote and this quote include playstation so I reply to you to tell you that it could have sold better on ps3 if it wasn't a game that runs badly and based of how overtracked the game is in US, I don't see it getting near to ps3 numbers, about 360 numbers? it might be close or it might not, very difficult to tell, that said, I believe that the game will have flopped on any platform regardless of how much it would have sold individually.  maybe it's because the game has a feminine protagonist or because the genre is not as popoular as it used to be.