Sega owns the Bayonetta IP. They didnt want to make another one, so Platinum asked around and everyone said no. Until they asked Nintendo and they said yes. Nintendo is literally the only reason Bayonetta is a series now.

Days Gone sold like 9 Million copies on 1 console. The first Bayonetta sold around 2 Million combined on 2 consoles.

There was a big Capcom leak in the year before Monster Hunter Rise released and it confirmed a PC version.

Wanting to buy Nintendo is fine, I wouldn't mind owning Nintendo myself.  It's this part I don't like "they have a [Board of Directors] that until recently has not pushed for further increases in market growth or stock appreciation.”Continuing, Spencer's email revealed that, at that time, former Microsoft Board of Directors member and co-CEO of ValueAct Capital, Mason Morfit, had been “heavily acquiring” Nintendo shares. As a result, Spencer was keeping in touch with him as it was “likely he will be pushing for more from Nintendo stock which could create opportunities for us”.

Even though he does state he doesn't think a hostile takeover is appropriate, he literally has activist investors that have infiltrated the company by buying up stock with the intent of forcing Nintendo to increase the value of the stock. Some activist investors like the ones fighting Kohls are demanding Kohls fire a good chunk of their board and hire new ones picked out by the activist investors. These activist investors are scum, that try to push their way of doing business on other business, and if the don't they may one day decided to do a hostile takeover.

I agree with you about the leak it showed lots of stuff but for ages no one passed any heed to it and thought it was fake or false. Heck some people still do to this day.

But we can both agree that its not a thing MH had lower sales on Switch than its other entries its just that being multi plat allowed it to sell to more users who was interested in the game. Like you said Mh did start off multi plat so clearly it would have MS and Sony and PC users who would all like to try a new entry in the game. even more so since the game has been exclusive to Nintendo platforms since 3.

This is a good come back. I honestly never thought of the sales when i made my original reply. All i remember was hearing much more about bayo than i ever did about Days Gone.

But i honestly still do believe we would of got a Bayo 2 and 3 anyways at some point .

please no... that would kill most of the industry's creativity in terms of gameplay

Maybe, maybe not. Running on hypothetics do not give us much to think on the actual state of things. 

Heck, after this Trilogy ended, Sega could try to "reboot" the series with their own fund this time to make a multiplat Bayo game this time.

Anywoo, can't wait for Astral Chain 2 

Oh, I am over being surprised that some are rooting for monopolisation and consolidation, I am also over selling it to the rest of us as "pro-competitive". 

We have a new level of gaslighting, conflating, spinning, avoidance of any valid objections, and rephrasing of whatever being said just to bend the truth. We've seen throughout the years but it's perhaps best embodied by the backlash the FTC got for a leak they had nothing to do with (conspiracy theories went wild lol), this thread (and many others online about this thread), coming to a full circle with Phil Spencer tweet and the reaction of his fans to it.

Surreal. 

You share a leaked email that has a lot more than MS desire to buy Nintendo, a lot more, but all of that gets pushed aside, you get reminded that it's a 3 year old email, and that non of their public or private stated intents matter, and MS is not buying Nintendo and that there is absolutely nothing to see here. 

Are you going to address the.....  "BUT SPENCER TWEETED OTHERWISE, NO COMPANY HASN'T CONSIDERED ACQUIRING NINTENDO".... even though I haven't touched on this bit at all in the OP or the headline, and next, you'll get a YouTube link for Phil's next inevitable crybaby interview as further evidence that we are wrong about directly quoting the guy and commenting on his literal statements. 

This kind of arrogant, paternalist dickery is why Microsoft never makes any headway in Japan. They go over there and tell Japanese companies and Japanese consumers that Microsoft is the only way. Then the Microsoft executives are bewildered when the Japanese tell Microsoft to take some Duke controllers and stick them up their asses sideways.

Yes, I am very happy and thankful they exist on Switch, I mean heck, Bayonetta 3 is the number one main reason I bought my Switch, now that being said, I'd be much happier and more thankful if I could play them on PC, and not through emulation and torrents... Ah, Bayonetta 2 and 3 with Steam achievements and trading cards. Sounds like a dream.