OrbitalBeard
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Bayonetta 2 off to a slow start in Japan [Update: Week 2 sales]
- Thread starter SomewhatGroovy
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Hey port beggars need something to feel good about.
Infernal Monkey
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They probably should have advertised the Nintendo character costumes on the cover for Japan to give a shit.
Just under 2 million. More than there were 360 owners when Bayo 1 launched.
That's a bunch of posters that will no longer trot out the 'just 2 days!' thing, so it's a benefit to everyone.
Various Artists
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This news makes me incredibly sad. I wish this game would sell better.
Smiles and Cries
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well someone had to do it, good work?
HeartlessNobody213
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Major drop in the 2nd week. Guessing WW LTD will be 400k at least and at most 450k?
Acquiescence
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Can you not at least wait until the tenth week of sales before you write it off entirely as a flop? Geez, you're a premature bunch.
metalslimer
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The point is that hopefully people never bring up this 2 day crap again.
Nintendom might have to stuff the channels a good amount to ship that much.
theprodigy
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yeah, I'll port beg for some platforms I don't even own.....wait
AstroNut325
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Crow for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
ninjablade
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opticalmace
Member
Where did he/she port beg?
Dave, it's only been two weeks!
metalslimer
Member
I believe his point was that many people brought the 2 day argument but it the end things weren't that different.
Yes, for core oriented titles, the object lesson here is that they're incredibly front loaded unless they're very notably supply constrained.
theprodigy
Member
western retailers can return over-shipped inventory, so that probably wouldn't even work (unless they pull a Jedi mind trick and make Japanese retailers take a bunch of them)
Dave, it's only been two weeks!
*9 days
edit: I promise being on the top of the page was not intentional
Smiles and Cries
Member
To anybody who said this guy made some good points.
that only 1 day or sales vs 4 days of sale was a strong point of his talk, second week blew him out of the water so I want to see his next talk or video addressing this news
OrbitalBeard
Member
I understand that but I don't see the need to call people out over it, when the Media Create numbers clearly speak for themselves. Whatever though.
It was always going to happen. I don't know why and would really like an answer, but nobody seems to know. Just enjoy a great game. Forget about sales.
metalslimer
Member
They clearly don't when we've seen this happen time and time again for games and people still buy into it.
I think it has been answered numerous times over by now.
ninjablade
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It was 2 days of sales, and anybody who visits MC threads regularly could see this coming from a mile away.
I knew it wasn't exactly going to do massive numbers, but that's damn rough.
Sammy Samusu
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Last edited by Nirolak.
Get that hit thread.
Get that hit thread.
lmao....
It won't chart next week, or any other week after that.
<insert Vince Carter It's Over gif>
Kinda. Thats what you get for not reading the thread and then acting smug about it. How frustrated do you think sales gaf were?
TheGreatMightyPoo
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This sounds eerily reminiscent of another Bayonetta 2 topic.
theprodigy
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....I'm pretty sure he's trolling, 10 weeks is pretty over the top
Um, everybody knows why it bombed.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Why then???
Sure why not as a matter of fact why not give it a year.
Mama Robotnik would be proud
tauroxd
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It's a Wii U exclusive. I love my WIi U, but I can't deny that that was the reason for the bomba. But I at least I'm happy that it bombed instead of it not existing at all.
Oh, this is a much better way to put it.
why would you even waste time doing this? It just seems like you care more about "forum ownage" than actually having discussions. lame.
I'm not talking about it being on the Wii U. I'm talking about the franchise as a whole. Even if the game came out on other systems I doubt it would have met expectations. The first game didn't sell at all.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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How are PS4 games selling in Japan???
What is lame is people not reading the thread and making ignorant posts.
Repeatedly.
Don't they generally outperform the PS3 versions?
Jimmyfenix
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Well Destiny on PS4 in Japan has out sold Bayo 2
Also i think if you take bundle sales out of Destiny it still sold more than Bayo 2.
AntiFacebook
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I guess it wasn't such a good idea to release it a single week after Nintendo's second best selling franchise(even though it's on a different system).
metalslimer
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Better than this and Bayonetta 2 would have sold better, but that's not relevant anyway as the game was scheduled for PS3
It's actually sold over double what Bayonetta 2 has. I didn't bring it up because big western games have been getting bigger, but PS4 software sales considering the hardware userbase are not terrible. The amount of software releases is terrible.
HeartlessNobody213
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Yeah, after really thinking about it, I definitely overestimated. Still, this was expected though and at least the game exist.
I highly doubt it (especially on a similarly tanking console). Wii u software sales blow chunks but this game wouldn't have done good numbers anywhere. Which is why it's a Wii u exclusive in the first place.
You can choose to see it exclusively in that light, but in reality there were a lot of illogical posts in blind desperation to make the numbers seem less bad in spite of evidence to the contrary. Pure ignorance and it's a sales thread you know?
metalslimer
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I don't see how it is hard to imagine this game doing better than this on the PS4. It also would have done decent numbers on the PS3. The game is on the Wii U is because decent Japanese sales wouldn't save the game from how bad it's going to bomb in the west which is why Sega dropped it and no one else picked it up. Thankfully, Nintendo did.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Why did the game's sales get all that attention though when most people expected it to sell very poorly???