People aren't buy the wiiu to play one game. This gen so far Wiiu has almost all the great exclusive games. The Wiiu is taking names in the regard. People are in no rush though. The longer they wait the better the wiiu price will be and there will be even more great exclusives so that value proposition keeps going up. I'm expecting year over year growth again for the wiiu both in sales and in profits where the system is already taking names.

Addressing franchise viability, considering that Sega was abandoning the franchise and neither Sony nor MS were interested, Nintendo was Bayonetta 2's lone chance at existence. That's why I don't understand all the port derangement syndrome over this.

You didn't get my post. Also I'd like you to point me to where the Wii U is "taking names in profits".

If I didn't know any better, I'd think that some people wanted this game to fail simply to validate themselves and their opinions. If that's the case, I'm severely disappointed. Every great game deserves great sales.

How does that work? Has the developer 30% more because the console maker only takes the publishing share and passes on the royalty share?

Or has the console maker 30% more by taking the publishing share AND the royalty share?

Or you save the same money in development costs by making a 360 or PS3 game or a PS4/XBO game with smaller scale (comparable to 360/PS3/WiiU-games)... or you split most of the costs by going multi-platform.

Yes, but a side-by-side comparison of sales figures just makes it look...bad. I'm commenting on the unfortunate reality of it only being on WiiU.

Doesn't nullify the fact that it was either Wii U or the garbage bin, which is what all the people screaming about it not being multiplatform aren't getting through their thick heads. It clearly wasn't profitable for Sega when it was multiplatform. If Nintendo was able to keep expectations reasonable (I'm pretty sure Nintendo wasn't expecting it to be a blockbuster) and manage costs enough to break even on it, which is debatable, it's already far more successful than Bayo 1 in a key aspect and we are far more likely to see a Bayonetta 3.

...How? Bayo 2 is outpacing the original, even when you combine the PS3 and 360 versions. And that's without considering that the original is said to be very overtracked to begin with.

Well.. Nintendo already was back into the profits and then they had an amazing christmas with the wiiu. Games sales way up and amiibo sales were very strong as well. This was during a time period where Microsoft was basically paying consumers to get an xbox one.  There was what a 50 dollar price difference between the wiiu and xbox one despite much more expensive hardware.

Yes, what's scarier is Street Fighter?! was in the same boat, and that's created deja vu all over again.