Kyuu said:
curl-6 said:
Let's not forget that Platinum straight up said that Bayonetta 2 "would not exist without Nintendo".
It's not like the game was going to come out on Playstation/Xbox until evil Nintendo stepped in and stole it. It was a choice between Bayonetta 2 on Nintendo or no Bayonetta 2 at all. Thankfully, the former happened, and the result was a great game.
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Salty Bayonetta fans should direct their frustration on Sega... not Platinum Games, not Nintendo. But I doubt Bayonetta 3 wouldn't exist when NieR Automata is selling so well and Valkyria Chronicles is making a comeback...
Sega has a long history of idiotic and nonsensical decisions, but they retain the right to control their IPs. I don't find them evil.. they're probably just stupid.
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Bayonetta 3 would not exist if Bayonetta 2 didn't exist. And I don't mean that by the numbering, I mean that by if Bayonetta 2 didn't exist, there is no way that Sega would decide to make a sequel that didn't sell that well of a 10 year old game. Platinum would find no publisher today wnating to make a sequel for a game that released in 2009.
Bayonetta 1 released in 2009. It didn't sell well. Nier selling well would just mean a sequel to Nier, not making a sequel to a 10 year old game.
Bayonetta even being a franchise people know right now is due to 2 and her inclusion in Smash. NieR selling well just lets Sega/Nintendo/Platinum or whoever is pulling strings know that the genre has potential.
Is Bayonetta gonna light the charts on fire? No, probably not. But it's what I would call a calculated expense on Nintendo's part. They make make some money, break even or lose some money on it. Either way I think they are fine. Obviously they woudl want it to be a huge hit, but regardless of its sales its a game type that applies to a different demographic than their own games. It makes their library look more complete to draw more consumers. Nintendo knows it will make a killing on their core games, Mario, Zelda, ect. Bayonetta is not there to make them a billion dollars.