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Forums - Sales Discussion - Darksiders outsells Bayonetta on both HD consoles (more than twice)

gamefreak4ever on 14 January 2010
--OkeyDokey-- said:
A lot of people are turned off by Bayonetta's campy Japanese randomness while most Americans will see a dude with a massive sword riding a flaming horse and think "that's badass!".


That is true to an extent.  Some game with the ladies in it are good such as Mirror Edge...



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Torillian on 14 January 2010
disolitude said:
CrunkE4 said:
I think the main reason why darksiders sold more because I lot of people try games by buying it. If you wanted to try darksiders or play it you had to rent it or buy it. In bayonetta's case there's a demo for that :|.

Im on the oposite side of the fence. I didn't buy darksiders cause there was no demo.

What do you have to hide THQ? Too much QTE perhaps?

nope, all of the finishers are done with one button press.



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gamefreak4ever on 14 January 2010
Torillian said:
disolitude said:
CrunkE4 said:
I think the main reason why darksiders sold more because I lot of people try games by buying it. If you wanted to try darksiders or play it you had to rent it or buy it. In bayonetta's case there's a demo for that :|.

Im on the oposite side of the fence. I didn't buy darksiders cause there was no demo.

What do you have to hide THQ? Too much QTE perhaps?

nope, all of the finishers are done with one button press.


No demo won't stop me from buying it.  Actually it can stop me from wanting to buy it.  Then again I can be swayed by a review of the game.  If I had to choose it would be Darksiders.  Simply b/c Bayonetta didn't appeal to me even after playing the demo.



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Dioxinis on 14 January 2010

THATS because darksiders is amazing. but i am planning on getting bayonnetta later



disolitude on 14 January 2010
Torillian said:
disolitude said:
CrunkE4 said:
I think the main reason why darksiders sold more because I lot of people try games by buying it. If you wanted to try darksiders or play it you had to rent it or buy it. In bayonetta's case there's a demo for that :|.

Im on the oposite side of the fence. I didn't buy darksiders cause there was no demo.

What do you have to hide THQ? Too much QTE perhaps?

nope, all of the finishers are done with one button press.


Is this for darksiders or bayonetta. I know bayonetta is Y+B finisher for bosses on 360...



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Torillian on 14 January 2010
disolitude said:
Torillian said:
disolitude said:
CrunkE4 said:
I think the main reason why darksiders sold more because I lot of people try games by buying it. If you wanted to try darksiders or play it you had to rent it or buy it. In bayonetta's case there's a demo for that :|.

Im on the oposite side of the fence. I didn't buy darksiders cause there was no demo.

What do you have to hide THQ? Too much QTE perhaps?

nope, all of the finishers are done with one button press.


Is this for darksiders or bayonetta. I know bayonetta is Y+B finisher for bosses on 360...

That was for Darksiders. 



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Ail on 15 January 2010
Khuutra said:
Ail said:
Khuutra said:

I can't imagine that this works in every fight because some enemies will attack you from off-screen/will charge you from off-screen

But

Why would you play in such a cheesy way even if it worked 100% of the time? Such a cheesy, slow way?

I do that when rl low on health :p

Although I have started to use the Star of Dinara as an alternative...

That's fair. Usually I either just take the death (since checkpoints are nice and plentiful) or concoct myself a mega green lollipop.

Found an easier way to take out opponents that is quite safe and a lot faster...

Run around and PKP with the katana...( I learned that in Alfheims..).

I reached halfway to verse 2 in Lost Chapter thanks mostly to that technic...

That lost chapter is insane, it's like Bloody Palace in DMC4 except  harder ( although supposedly if you beat the hardest game mode you get a weapon that should help a lot for Lost Chapter). Right now it's beat 50 waves of enemies with no heals ( first 10 normal diff, next 20 hard difficulty, last 20 infinite climax difficulty,  wave 40 is hardest jeanne x3.........).

 



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

d21lewis on 16 January 2010

I was reading an issue of Game Informer and this is what the developer said: "But the character design and cutscenes and things may have been too edgy to be accepted by everybody. I think that's just the way that I make games, but maybe in the future I should consider dialing it back a little bit so that more people can enjoy them."

This interview was before Bayonetta was even released. I guess this explains why Viewtiful Joe, Godhand, Okami, and now, Bayonetta are critical successes but not commercial hits: Hideki Kamiya doesn't compromise.