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Rogerioandrade said:
Goodnightmoon said:
So there´s no proof at all of Bayo2 being overtracked?


Actually... no.

All that we have are just speculative information. We will only be sure when Nintendo publishes its next financial reports.


Seems legit :(



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retroking1981 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
This is why third parties who opt to work with Nintendo of their own accord should step back from Nintendo until Nintendo creates a profitable grounds for them while being a third party for Nintendo. Sony and Microsoft have been doing it for years, and Nintendo had in the past. The problem with Nintendo doing that in the past is they had control over third parties back then. Everyone had to do everything their way. I will buy this game when I get my Wii U but Nintendo deserves this.



I get where your coming from here but I don't think Nintendo deserve it.

Nintendo was right to get Bayonetta. They was right to get an exclusive Lego game. They was right to get an exclusive core game from Ubisoft in ZombiU.

Lego games are huge and think about Ubisoft. One of the bigger 3rd party developers actually made an exclusive for Nintendo. When was the last time that happened for MS/Sony? Nintendo really pushed it to, with day one bundles etc.

Bayonetta was a critical success last gen. The sequel hasn't sold well because that fanbase didn't exist on Wii U. Point is Nintendo were trying to cater to the core audience, if all those people got a Wii U instead of moaning that it wasn't on their console of choice then other 3rd parties may have looked at the Wii U and thought it was worth developing for. Success breeds success.

I know its a completely different scale but when Final Fantasy went form Nintendo to Sony no one cared less. They just got FFVII on PS and helped that console go on to be the huge success it was.

I wonder what fate awaits Street Fighter V.

Don't get me wrong Nintendo have done A LOT wrong with the Wii U but the 3 games I've mentioned above (B2, LCU & ZombiU) are good examples of them getting good exclusives that deserved to increase the userbase of the U and diversify the SW library much more than they did.

I don't know about that!  I remember being quite bitter over that--at least, until I got a PS1.  We just didn't have twitter to whine about things like that on.

I agree with the rest of what you said, though.  Nintendo made a good start.  They just didn't do enough and, I think it could be argued, they didn't get anything that would make people jump to a Wii U from the other consoles.  Bayonetta 2 is no Final Fantasy 7 in terms of drawing power.



Roronaa_chan said:
Rogerioandrade said:
qwertyDANIELqwerty said:
What the...? Guys, it sold more than 3000,000 in the US. Are you guys stupid?

Yep. That seems to be just a random guess by a random NeoGaf user.


No..it's the usual NPD leaker on neogaf. It's legit.

Duh? This?

Other 2014 new games, no bundle, with special edition.

Yoshi > 400k
Friends ~ 400k
Kirby: > 360k
BD > 350k
FL: 142k
Golf: 102k
PVP: 73k
Sonic 3DS: 73k
DKC: > 440k
Musou ~ 370k
B2 < 135k
Sonic WiiU: 68k

This seems too random to be legit.  Which game is supposed to be "Friends" ?  "tomodachi collection" ? Why would they use the japanese name?

I still prefer wait for official numbers before any arguing. Internet videogame forums are always full of guessings. 




What about it looks random? cream always posts like that. He's a leaker (aka releasing information he shouldn't), the point is to make it look as cryptic as possible while still passing along readable information.



That's very good news! Oh wait... no... it isn't.



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Rogerioandrade said:
generic-user-1 said:
Rogerioandrade said:
VG Chartz says it sold 330k in the Americas

Can Latin America be responsible for 200k copies of Bayonetta 2? I think it´s very unlikely

Obs.: Where exactly Nintendo said that Bayonetta 2 sold 135k in the U.S.? On that NeoGAf thread there´s not even any mention of it on the articles.: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=972713

npd numbers are just us, they track canada to, but canada isnt in the numbers thes present (i think so at least, cant find much informations about it just some meh sources.).

Thansk for clarifying. In my country Bayonetta 2 rapidly sold out, unfortunately it´s impossible to know how much it sold because a good part of it was imported from the U.S. (and probably would be counted as U.S. sales)

i dont think it would be in the npd us sales, for vgc its a mystery.   npd numbers are tracked by major us retailers, i dont think people that export copys in other countrys would buy the games at a retailer.



Roronaa_chan said:
What about it looks random? cream always posts like that. He's a leaker (aka releasing information he shouldn't), the point is to make it look as cryptic as possible while still passing along readable information.

For me it doesn´t make any sense to make it "look as cryptic as possible", as using japanese names for U.S. games, it just would make the information even more doubtful.

Anyway, videogame sales numbers are just like religion: each one chooses what to believe. LOL.  

Let´s wait and see what next Nintendo financial report says and check how Bayo 2 really sold. Moving on.

 



Rogerioandrade said:
Roronaa_chan said:
Rogerioandrade said:
qwertyDANIELqwerty said:
What the...? Guys, it sold more than 3000,000 in the US. Are you guys stupid?

Yep. That seems to be just a random guess by a random NeoGaf user.


No..it's the usual NPD leaker on neogaf. It's legit.

Duh? This?

Other 2014 new games, no bundle, with special edition.

Yoshi > 400k
Friends ~ 400k
Kirby: > 360k
BD > 350k
FL: 142k
Golf: 102k
PVP: 73k
Sonic 3DS: 73k
DKC: > 440k
Musou ~ 370k
B2 < 135k
Sonic WiiU: 68k

This seems too random to be legit.  Which game is supposed to be "Friends" ?  "tomodachi collection" ? Why would they use the japanese name?

I still prefer wait for official numbers before any arguing. Internet videogame forums are always full of guessings. 



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badgenome said:
pokoko said:

We're just going to have to disagree there, then.  The SNES era was my least favorite in gaming.  SO many clones and SO many bad movie and TV tie-in games.  Probably more trash games released during the SNES era than any other except the Atari era.  That it was completely dominated by only a few genres certainly didn't help, either.  

Call me crazy, but I kind of miss games like Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. They had almost nothing to do with the licensed product and were like the work of some mad genius!

But I do think a lot of people forget about how much bad, expensive shovelware there was because companies like Square and Capcom (you know, the guys who made the games that you should have been playing instead of Home Alone 2) were in their primes.

You're crazy.

I don't forget because I couldn't afford to buy games and got almost everything I played from my local video rental store.  Unfortunately, it was run by a middle aged lady who knew nothing about games, so she just ordered stluff like 3 Ninjas: Kick Back and Demolition Man because the movies were popular.  Because of this, I didn't even KNOW the SNES had RPGs until after I'd pretty much given up on gaming and stumbled on Final Fantasy 6 by accident.

Still, yeah, some of those games were pretty awesome in an unintential way.  



It's sad that a lot of Wii U owners ended up skipping out on this game and seeing that Sonic Boom sold more than half of it really isn't very reassuring even if Bayonetta 2 is a very niche title.