AzrealMaximillion said:
Soviet Heavy said:
AzrealMaximillion said:
Logically the fans of the original Bayonetta aren't going to buy a Wii U JUST to play the sequel. This is a shot in the foot of both Nintendo and Platinum Games.
*Cough*Mass Effect 2 PS3*Cough*
The original Mass Effect came out on PC as well making it multiplatform. Mass Effect 2 also was multiplatform.
Bayonetta 2 is not only exclusive, but also exclusive with a company that has never carried the franchise, which is why people are scratching their heads at the lack of logic.
What lack of logic? Buy the publishing rights to a popular franchise in order to sell them on a new game console? That seems pretty damn smart to me. But others in this thread have said that nobody who played on Nintendo Consoles would ever have a demand for Bayonetta, which I find a flimsy argument.[/quoute] How is it flimsy? We've seen Mature games on the Wii flop over and over and over again (MadWorld, No More Heroes 1&2, House of the Dead Overkill). We've seen more core titles that weren't Mature flop over and over and over again on the Wii(Marumasa, Zack and Wiki,etc) . Nintendo's reputation with 3rd party core games is hurt more than you think. Its the reason I sold my Wii. Its the reason most people I know who game consistently and bought their Wiis either let them collect dust in a closet with literally 2 games alongside it that they bought, or they sold them. No one's mad at Platinum Games for the choice they made, they wanted their game to come out in anyway and we can respect that, but there is a lack of logic in making a multiplatform series go exclusive with an unfamiliar console franchise. It'd be like if Tekken went Wii U exclusive.
PC Gamers never had a chance to play Dark Souls at first, but when given the opportunity, they pounced on it like a hungry dog.
Again, Dark Souls was a multiplatform game already, AND the second in a series. Not the same as Bayonetta starting off multiplatform and then going exclusive on a console that isn't a successor to the PS3 or 360.
PS3 Owners never had a chance to play Mass Effect at first, but when they got the chance, see where I'm going with this?
Yes and its an extreme straw man point. Because once again, Mass Effect was multiplatform in the beginning. That and it wasn't to hard for a PC to run so anyone who wanted to play Mass Effect could. Putting it on the PS3 along with the pre-game comic where you could make choices helped. Mass Effect 2 was a game that covered its bases.
Your choice of console does not predispose you to certain preferences in games.
That's arguable. But your choice in console does limit your choice of exclusives. People who play on the PS3 or 360 are more likely to buy the successor to those consoles for the franchises they like. For a person who owns either of those consoles there is very little incentive to buy a Wii U due to most of its launch titles being ports of games that have been released on the PS3 or 360 months to a year ago.
This was a smart move by nintendo, as it brings a respected franchise back from the dead, and offers an incentive to buy their console. And it most likely will work.
Its not the best way to offer an incentive though. I mean they let Eternal Darkness' sequel chance die, why not publish that? Like I said before, no one is going to buy a Wii U JUST because of Bayonetta 2. This isn't the "exclusives sell consoles" market anymore. This is the "franchise sells consoles" market, and switching consoles in between games can hurt a franchise. You seem so sure that this idea will work. What if it doesn't? Then we have a dead franchise. If this game sells poorly like games of its kind on the Wii have before, it could kill the franchise. Bayonetta didn't sell too too well to begin with. 1.35 million copies between the PS3 and 360 is good, but if this franchise was exclusive to begin with it would have been considered a poor sales run. Nintendo making Bayonetta 2 exclusive really is a gamble here. Trying to herd an already small fanbase to a console that they're not going to be the most likely to buy may hurt it in the long run.
Those who were already going to buy a Wii-U now have a strong game waiting for them, while it will also surely draw some other players over into buying the system.
Highly doubtful. If this were a new franchise it would be a stellar move by Nintendo, but their picking up a sequel to an almost niche game. This will be one to watch. I assure that at the very least, it will not be a massive success.
