These figures are from NPD. They cut off at the end of December. It's, what, 9 weeks?

I don't know where you would have gotten 4 months from regardless since it hasn't been 3 months yet.

Four months referring to how long the game has been out. 

I gotta say its heartbreaking that people are trying to decry the sales on a great game. The game has been widely praised and even got over 90 on Metacritic. I get that the sales are a big deal on this site but still. The game is excellent and almost every gamer who has played it has been pleasantly surprised. Destiny got less crap and that game was terrible compared to Bayonetta 2.

God Of War: Ascension sold over 2 million units and is a spinoff game in its series and belongs to the same genre.

No one is denying the praise of the game. The argument has always been whether the game is profitable on a Nintendo platform. On that note, there is nothing to be heartbroken over outside of the fact that it is not profitable (when exclusive). On another note its existence wasnt about profitabilty to some people who understand Nintendo's alternative reasons for funding the game. It was about increasing the spread of games across the board for lack of third party.

Of couse they AIM at a wider demographics; its sales would not be possible if it didn't. But the prepubscent crowd is the primary buyer; the kids who still think it's "cool" to murder civilians, take drugs, and rob banks.

If this was ps4. Or xbox exclusive who's to say it wouldn't have sold more. Look at sunset overdrive sales. And I know what the previous games sold. 

Much stronger competition on that platform when Bayonetta 1 was released on the Xbox360? With its release in the first week of January 2010 it missed the whole christmas sales but still had to compete with all the other AAA-games released in Q4/2009 and Q1/2010:

CoD: Modern Warfare 2, Forza 3, Assassin's Creed 2, Left 4 Dead 2, GTA IV Episodes / GOTY Edition, Dragon Age Origins, Borderlands, Brutal Legend, Tekken 6, Halo: ODST, Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, Splinter Cell: Conviction, BioShock 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Darksiders, Drgon Age: Awakening, Final Fantasy XII, Just Cause 2, Metro 2033 ...

360-owners who wanted a fast-paced action game with nice graphics in that time frame had more than enough choice... and new IPs like Bayonetta, Darksiders, Brutal Legend and Borderlands had very stiff competition.

So which competitors had Bayonetta 2 on the WiiU in the last and following months? Super Smash Bros., Hyrule Warriors and a half-year-old Mario Kart 8... that's it!

And thats a new IP from a developer that people weren't confident in anymore. Bayonetta 2's a sequel from a dev who's main team always makes great games. Wii U and 3rd party just doesn't go together.