gamrReview's Stephen C Barrett: "The first game developed by Platinum Games for Wii U, The Wonderful 101, was a brand new intellectual property that received very poor sales largely due to a profound lack of marketing and customer awareness. Nintendo cannot let Bayonetta 2’s Wii U debut follow the same fate."
Bayonetta's character design and abilities have changed a lot since the series debuted in 2009, with new costumes and dark arts in every title.
Many fans have been expressing their disappointment with Bayonetta 3. Here's why the recently released game is a clear step down from Bayonetta 2.
I thought they focused on big kaiju like fights which felt gimmicky and thy brought this new character in to try and get away from the leading star
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I mean they pretty much killed 3 big characters. They killed Jeanne, Luka and Bayonetta herself and it's not the fact they died it's how they died, we've seen Jeanne and Bayonetta survive countless things yet they go out by the lamest ways possible.
Nintendo has updated Bayonetta 2 to version 1.2.0 and they have also shared the patch notes for this update on the Nintendo Switch.
I'll use a Bayonetta 2 picture as my pic if it even sells 750K units. I can't see this selling 1M when it's only on one platform, the platform that is selling the weakest and doesn't really have the fanbase for a game like this.
After all the marketing it's gotten from gaming websites doing previews and the huge presence it's had at other conventions and at E3, I'm confident that there aren't many gamers out there that don't know how awesome it's going to be.
That along with fan movements like Operation Platinum being supported by people inside Platinum games[one guy from Platinum said, on twitter, he'd find a shirt with #Operation Platinum's logo on it to wear to an event, amongst other gestures], gives me confidence that it can easily hit the 1M mark before its first 6 months are past on the market.
It's looking to be that much of an improvement over the original, after all, and the fact that it comes with an improved version of the original is just icing on the cake.
It's not niche anymore; it's gone from that to being the most anticipated action title of the rest of this year.
If Nintendo really wants to push it over the edge, though, then prime-time TV advertisements are what they need.
Sadly, I'm certain Nintendo of America is going to do a terrible job of marketing this. They can't even market the Wii U right.
They seems anti-Japanese games some times. They are responsible for the big 3 RPGs that came out on the Wii U arriving so late.
Your comments about The Walking Dead ads are spot on. I see them all the time. Yet, nothing from Nintendo. That just shows NOA ad reps aren't as tuned in to what's going as they should be. Don't advertise a Zombie game on a Zombie show which happens to be the number one show on television, just don't.
I don't watch a ton of TV but when kids are over and the kids channels are on that is the only time I see ads for Nintendo.
Hopefully they will get a clue with B2.