Pretty much; if PS3/360 owners had actually bought the original, Sega wouldn't have abandoned it and Nintendo would've had to step in and save it.

Yeah, but that's the thing, the two have one major thing in common, or two should I say:

1) Money, every project needs funding one way or another, that's just how they work.

2) If no one crowdfunds the project, it doesn't happen, just like if no one funds an IP that was left to rot in the back yard. No one pays, it doesn't happen, again that's just how it is.

The differences are that people are funding the devs directly with their money, becoming a collective that hands a large sum of money over time, while a company hands theirs over in one large sum on a given date. Their currency is the same and their goals of getting the game made are the same. The only differences are that it's a company's bank account handing money over to a dev, and the company wanting to profit off of the game. Even then that's 2 for 2, not 5-1 in terms of differences when you look at the central core of funding a game.

If I had the choice, I'd choose multiplat, so long as the PC version isn't borked in any way.

There is some people that ask only to get his abrasive answer. But sure there may be some 100k people wanting it on PS4/X1, but that is far from being even relevant or making the IP profitable on those systems.

Also the Bayo1 was very boring.

But Bayonetta situation is different.Most crowdfunded games are small games, games that can be developed with the 500k, 1 million or even 2 millions they manage to get througfh these means.Or in other situations these crowdfunding sites are used to gauge interest in said game, and 90% of the budget is handled by the publisher/developer himself.

Bayonetta is a big title, one that would need(Im guessing here) 20 or 30 million dollars to develop, something that kickstarter wont be able to reach.And Platinum dont have much money, so they cant make a campaign just to see if there would be interest for such game, because the rest of the money to cover for all the expenses isnt simply there.Thus the need of a publisher, and thus the exclusivity.

If Bayo 3 manages to be really successful, like selling 2 millions or more, I can see Bayo 4 going multiplatform.

Fair enough even though it should have been obvious I was being hyperbolic.

No way Bayo cost 30M to make, they would need 1M sells at full price only to break even, Nintendo wouldn't finance such crazyness... they don't put 30M in development even of Zelda or Mario... shouldn't expect even more than 10M, unless you have source for the costs it doesn't make sense.

And 10 millions make sense?Whats your source for that?Do you think Sega would be that unwilling to fund Bayo 2 if the all the costs related to the game would only be 10 millions?Obviously not.

Nice! :D

Because the original sales and cost of opportunity for its sales wouldn't justify the sequel being made by them paying it up. And claiming Nintendo would finance a game that would cost a lot more than their own games is quite strange if given without any source except "i guess so"

LOL

Im sorry, but this is just too funny.You say my reasons for thinking the costs are high is "I guess so", but then you go on to say that your reasons for being low is "I guess so" too.

Look, Sega is a company that wants money.If what you say its true and Bayonetta games usually costs around 10 millions, then why were they dissapointed with the first one?The first sold roughly 2 millions between 360 and PS3 and assuming that each game gave them 30 dollars in raw profit(given the discounts as the years passed by) the game would still have made 60 million dollars, 6 times more than the initial investement.Why wouldnt Sega be happy with it, at least not enough so that it wouldnt continue with the franchise?

So tell me, why do you think that Bayonetta 2 costs around 10 millions, instead of the 30 or so that usually AAA games costs?Oh, and give me actual facts or concrete data, because your childish excuse such as"Nintendo is so stupid, they dont like to spend money" dosent fly.

Edit:Oh, and Nintendo said that, for its bigger games, they usually need 2 million units sold to break even and have a small profit, so thats about 100 million dollars right there that are spent with their big first party games.Just so you know.

Your avatar pic kinda looks like Some Black Guy. 😸