The action adventure hack 'n' slash game from publisher Nintendo and developer Platinum Games - Bayonetta 2 - sold 186,189 units first week at retail on the Nintendo Switch, according to VGChartz estimates.
nothing would be huge on xbox... They even had to spin pubg numbers by telling us how many players they had instead of sales. pubg is a huge game, 33 million copies sold on pc already while xbox has had 3 million players (many got the game free, others are probably multiple accounts). I know pc had a head start, but the game only came out to early access at the end of march last year.
@phantom they turned it down because it ran like crap at least on ps3, which is kinda understandable given its unique system but they didnt want to fund it partly because of that
No way around that sales would be bigger if it were on Xbox and ps4 and switch. Game could also run at higher res on pro and x. win for everyone. we don't know if ms and Sony turned them down, just that Nintendo was the choice to publish
The first game didn't sell amazing well on either system. It did decent enough on each system, and overall, but it wasn't something that lit up the charts, nor were that many people clamoring for a sequel. Given what both systems had going for them last gen at the time, I can see why they may have passed. It sucks for players on those systems, but Nintendo took a chance when it could have bombed, and have been doing well with the franchise. Nintendo at least did market the 2nd game well, and throwing in B1 on disc originally was pretty cool to get both games at once.
I think a lot of people, like me, bought part 1 and didn't buy part 2 until they finished the first one a week or two later. I'd expect part 2 sales increased in the weeks after.
Also the install base of the Switch is 15 million, 186 thousand is really good for first week sales. The game will easily do 700k to 1million, which is around how much Bayo 1 did on PS3/360
To be fair, it did well on WiiU, but people aren't given a discount let alone a choice to buy for much cheaper if they owned it previously. I don't like Nintendo's idea of charging full price for recent ports.
I want to see Platinum Games succeed but I am not sure 186K in unit sales first week worldwide is to be considered a great success like some have been saying. Frankly that is a rather poor showing out of the gate and sales likely are just going to decline from here. Will be interesting to see if this game can manage a million in sales lifetime at this point on Switch.
I guess the real measuring stick will be how well Bayonetta 3 sells on Switch since that will be a new game.
They wouldn't be making Bayonetta 3 if they weren't already happy with sales of Bayonetta 2 on Wii U and now Switch. Bayonetta didn't sell 5 million on PS3 and Xbox 360 so some comments in here are simply confused to how this game sells.
It's amazing how many games find success on Switch. I can imagine nice first week sales for Bayonetta 3. :)
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Didn't this game release in February? Why is it April 9th and we are just getting the first week sales? This game has probably already hit 500K.