Where did you get that? I'm pretty sure it's still ahead of tropical freeze in aligned numbers.

Nintendo would need to take the hit if they funded a third game. As for it being multiplat that would be healthier, but Sega would need to find a publisher.

The 700k that "Bayo 2" has pulled down is mostly at $60 ($50+ anyway), which amounts to more income in the long run than the quick decline to bargain bin that Sega typically follows. If "Bayo 2" moves over a million LTD, it will be largely over $40 a pop, which may amount to more take than PS3 and 360 put together, which I understand sold mostly at the $20 price point.

"Wonderful 101", however, THAT flopped hard. Too bad, too. I love that game!

If you count used games sales Bayo would've probably been over a million in sales already.

1.  Even though I don't think it manage to push any hardware in any significant way, that was not the point at hand.  The point at hand is that the sales of the game is very low IMO judged by not entering in the top 10 of the october NPD list, any information whatsoever by nintendo regarding to the game and some leak about the game selling around 70k in the months of october.  This is all I was arguing.

2.  I don't know much about the process of development but I do have an idea based of how the industry had behave since the HD era.   I do know that most of development costs goes for salary to employees but also know that HD games takes more time and resources than an SD game.  Yeah they  reused assets but you make sound like it's a copy and paste thing and thus making the game much much cheaper.  If you can show me any evidence that shows the huge difference in costs between a game that started from scratch vs. one that reused assets, please enlight me.  Also even though bayo 2 reused asset doesn't mean there weren't any complication expected on the game.  After all Wii U is a new hardware for platinum, add to that optimization.  You  just talk like they were fine because they reused and everything went smoothly witout taking into account complication that came along during development.  I haven't seen a case of profitability for game like bayo at 500k other than indies. 

Look at a game like COD, a game that is always reusing asset for both offline and online, do you think that by now the production cost has been very low just because they manage to decrease some time in the development process. 

" Fire Emblem is on the 3DS and Bayonetta 2 is on the Wii U, therefore Bayonetta 2's budget >>> Fire Emblem"  I know that's not how it works but I also know bayo 2 is an HD game, it require a decent amount of employees to finish a game on schedule.  Although the difference in price between fire emblem just tell me as well that the expected return for a game like bayo 2 is higher than a 3DS game, otherwise they will be priced accordingly.

3.  obviously the decision to fund a game like bayo 2 was determine way before wii U was released.  I'm sure they didn't expected the kind of sales that Wii U is having.  They saw an opportunity there, I cant blame them for doing that, after all it's an investment and sometimes you have to make risk but you can't win it all.  The question that I have for you, why there isn't any game like bayo 2 announced for the system, can we expect more games like that the rest of the gen for Wii U?, very unlikely.  If games like metroid or other nintendo franchises hasn't been announced and have a legacy with their fans, don't expect a game like bayo to be announced for the system.

Ya people always ignore that the game is heavily overtracked on here, 500k lifetime worldwide is a pretty generous prediction.

I remember a pretty recent quote from one of the higher ups at Sony saying that something like 60% of the games they publish aren't profitable but the really big sellers are able to make up for that. Perhaps Nintendo is willing to take a loss on games like this in order to add diversity and hopefully create a place where games like this can sell well in the future because they know big games like Mario Kart or Smash Bros will easily be able to offset the potential losses from a game like Bayonetta or Devil's Third.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/06/26/bayonetta-3-could-happen-as-nintendo-exclusive-says-dev

Platinum wants it to be for Nintendo.

If it happens it will be Nintendo exclusive. Sega has no faith in the franchise.

I guess it would depend on who would publish the next game right? It could go anywhere at this point, depending on who funds the project.

Assuming it exists, I'd say it'll most likely be a Nintendo exclusive.

My only concern is SEGA's current situation with console games.