https://finalweapon.net/2023/02/07/bayonetta-3-surpasses-1-04-million-copies-sold/
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Bayonetta 3 has sold a million copies
https://finalweapon.net/2023/02/07/bayonetta-3-surpasses-1-04-million-copies-sold/
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That seems surprisingly low, I know it's a Switch exclusive and all but I figured 1.5 - 2 mil at least.
If you want excuses:
>long wait time killed the hype, especially since they announced it early after already a long time of silence and still took a while to release it
>meh story. They literally just shoehorned in a Multiverse plot since the first two games alone make up a complete story.
>bad word of mouth after the controversial ending and new characters which didn’t resonate as hard as the main cast
>it’s also essentially a soft reboot.
I bet the new Cereza game has a better reputation on passion alone.
it's only been out for like 3 months
a million copies is pretty good
surely people will gush about it and lead to more sales
it deserves success
most nintendo fans are under 18 and can't play bayonetta
>sonic
you expect bayonetta to be as popular as sonic?
>surely people will gush about it and lead to more sales it deserves success
No, 3 is the new black sheep of the franchise, most people who have bothered to finish it hate the way the story was treated. Beyond that, most diehards will just go back to replaying Bayo 1 instead of 3 due to the inconsistent package of gameplay (over-emphasis on using demon slaves to do any damage to bosses, crap ton of level gimmicks compared to 1 etc).
Sadly that's the closest thing to a commercial success the series ever had.
For Bayonetta, that's actually pretty good. The last Bayo game to sell 1 million was the original Bayonetta but that was ONLY if you added up both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. For Platinum and for a niche series, this is a huge success.
>The last Bayo game to sell 1 million was the original Bayonetta but that was ONLY if you added up both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game
And only after it was put in bargain bins.
I thought bayo 1 sold 2 million
After several years.
>multiple platform
>constant discount on steam
Are you really comparing several years of sales on several platforms with a few months of sales in a single console? An extremely successfull one, ok, but still...
Didn't 2 sell a million?
Yes. More like 1.3-1.4 Million between Switch and Wii U, but we do know that the Switch version sold 1 Million. 3 is, however, the fastest this series has had a million seller, and it's not even close.
Bayo3 is also boring as frick with abysmal pacing.
That is relatively the best sale it has in the series.
Bayonetta is very niche.
Pretty low for a Nintendo game. Probably the last time they bother with it.
>110+ Million consoles sold
>Only sells 1 million
lol
Bodes well for that leaked PC port, can't wait.
>3 moronic posts immediately
Im still waiting for a sale.
Apologize.
>ruins your IPs status and goodwill with a single twitter post
>makes jap phil fish delete his twitter out of pure anal devastation
>doesnt elaborate
>leaves
absolutly based queen
>doesnt elaborate
But she did
The only thing she ruined was her voice acting "career". There's probably a lot of people who don't trust her at all anymore even at her other gigs.
When playing this I thought I would be more annoyed by the voice actor change, but after seeing like 30 million people die at the beginning of the game and Bayonetta seemingly not really giving a frick I stopped liking the character anyway. The Enzo bullying stuff was fun in Bayonetta 1 and 2 but when he's crying in corner because his children are dead and the bullying still continues that was when I checked out fully.
Thanks Kamiya
They also fumble her relationships with Jeanne and Luka. The only one that has any semblance of depth is the one with Viola and it's only 10% of the way to where it should've been.
She did not give a shit about angels nuking Vigrid or blowing up skyscrapers either. She was never a superhero
That's fair but Vigrid isn't a real place and it's entirely possible all of those sky scrapers are empty. I know it's daft but when it's literally New York, a population I can google and know with 100% certainty all of those skyscrapers are populated to the brim with people, then it's different.
Also Vigrid people were dehumanized by them all being angel worshipping scum and they are usually saved from harm by the fighting happening on a different plane of existence as opposed to Bayonetta 3 where they are all just fricked.
It's fine, she knew the damage caused by the Homunculi would be magically undone at the end. :^)
She was born in Vigrid
She also has no memories of her childhood?
Can somebody explain to me why she did it?
I haven't really been following along.
Greed and stupidity
She had a good thing going voicing Bayo but she fricked it up
She pulled some crazy figures about the value of the franchise out of her ass and demanded to be paid a fortune to reprise her role.
Woman moment.
the most moronic part is that she didn't even have to fricking lie and people would mostly agree with her lol
Didn't someone say that she's married to a rich guy?
Yeah, she's not even a professional VA. She just got greedy and caught lying. As if a VA makes 6 figures for a videogame.
>she's married to a rich guy
>Yeah, she's not even a professional VA
Are you fricking kidding me? so the whole fiasco was just an ego trip for her? she wanted to make 6 figures to buy handbags or something?
considering there's like what? 90 million switches floating around and this only sold 1 million that seems awful lmao
that's surprisingly low
Sonic Frontiers hit like 3 million copies in a month despite being derided by journos and randoms.
Bayo 3 had a presence at the Game Awards too as a contender for GOTY iirc too
>being derided by journos and randoms
no it wasn't
Only 1 million? Why is it gamers only care to buy the same old shit all the time?
most gamers are young teenage boys whose minds are already occupied with tik tok and fortnite
anything else is white noise
>implying Bayonetta 3 isn't the same old shit
Somehow it looks even worse than the previous game
it's a niche game in a niche genre that is significantly different from prior games in the series you insufferable fricking moron. nothing about it is the same by any non-moronic definition.
>it's a niche game in a niche genre
You mean unpopular series.
DMC5 was released 11 years after previous mainline game and is sitting at 6.5 million, blowing every other game in the series.
to be completely fair to bayonetta making the graphics realistic in DMCV made it much more approachable to people that weren't familiar with the genre. much like if you tell people to go back and play 1, 3 or 4 they will talk about how dated they look
>Which picture should we use for the article?
>I know, let's put a smug V
Based Stephanie
>smug V
She fricking knew what she was doing
Bayonetta is not call of duty, fortnite, apex legends or the mountain of other FPS shit. Nor is it league of legends or whatever other goyslop gamers play today. It is a niche genre and series.
Bayonetta is in fricking Smash. It has a reputation.
arms is in smash too
>nooo our propagandaaaa noooo damn japs and their heterosexualityyyy!
Fricking kek.
>nooooo my headcanon
>noooooooo I ship them
Do bayogays really?
Likely an attempt to paint the series as progressive so playing it wouldn't go against their far left politics where "sexy lady = evil", but "sexy lesbians = virtuous". It's her saving Jeanne in the second game that made all the yurigays go wild, even though B1 makes it pretty apparent Luka is the love interest.
It's as successful as Astral Chain, but Ganker will pretend that's a bad thing now.
>as successful as a game nobody has ever heard of
more successful actually, AC only sold 500k in the same amount of time iirc. genuinely no idea why several posts i this thread are suggesting this is low unless they're vastly overestimating how popular Bayo as a franchise is
Frick you, I liked it
Kino
These sections were really unfun and had had sluggish controls but were just designed to be a cool looking spectacle. Basically just so you point at the screen and clap. Makes me really hesitant about Project GG
It was kino but why did you pick the worst fight and scene in the game you might actually convince someone otherwise
This was the only time throughout the entire Bayonetta franchise that I actually got a boner. I don't even like GTS.
GET FRICKING REKT bayotrannies.
>5 years in development
>1 million sales
>"t-that's actually good"
Only someone unfamiliar with the series or Platinum's sales history in general would suggest it isn't.
But enough about MGR
>Bayonetta is such a trash series 1 million units sold is an achievement
For Bayonetta, this is a really good result.
Bayonetta 2 sold like 400k on the Wii U for Nintendo to push for a sequel. Bayonetta 4 is a no brainer at this point.
I'm still not sure why Bayo even got in Smash.
Because she's a solid Nintendo character.
The real puzzler is why 80% of the DLC for Ultimate is full of literal who's
This is why no one likes you Bayogays. You constantly make it seem like the series is bigger than it actually is
>Bayonetta 3 sold as much as Valkyria Chronicles 1
Fascinating
holy shit it made ANOTHER half a billion?
Floppenetta
>most successful bayonetta to date
It's a W
What do you guys think the legs will be like? PG games seem fairly front loaded. AC hit 1.03 million and then only went to 1.08 million the following quarter. It took several years to climb to 1.21
B3's reception seemed a bit mixed, but there's also Origins coming soon to drum up interest in the series.
Word of mouth about Bayo 3 is mostly negative so who knows.
Nintendo are probably fine either way as they know this game won't sell gangbusters, but it does round out their library.
>Word of mouth about Bayo 3 is mostly negative so who knows.
Finally. I’ve been shouting from the rooftops for years that Platinum isn’t the company people think they are but it took until now for people to finally realize that.
>Word of mouth about Bayo 3 is mostly negative so who knows.
talking with yourself is not word of mouth schizo
For the people that actually buy and play these kinds of games instead of just shitpost about them for consolecuck wars it wasn’t very good.
Nah that was the trannies and lesbos crying about the ending.
Game is fine otherwise, people's main complaint is about Viola.
She's introduced and not really used outside like 4 levels, never really has a chance to shine, but I know people didn't like her parry mechanic.
>game is fine
>just ignore the combat being the worst in the series
>and the minigame distractions being the worst in the series
>and the new character being laughably shit
>$60 + tax + tip please
But enough about Bayo1
>combat being worst in the series
homie what?
Yes the demon companion stuff was bombastic and took some getting used to, but you're a fricking moron.
>minigames the worst
Get good at Elevator Action homosexual.
>new character shit
Viola is fine, she showed up for 4 levels, you didn't even begin to use her.
Please go back to /r trans
>it’s fine that they ruined the combat because it’s le heckin epic bro!
>it’s fine that Kamiya can’t help himself with dogshit minigames, just get good bro!
>it’s fine that Viola is the worst action game character in recent memory (even worse than V), you don’t play her that much bro!
Just keep shoveling that slop in your mouth anon
Ain't nothing as salty as you are Black person.
Please return to your dilation station.
>you’re a troony if you don’t like the game where Bayonetta looks like a troony
how convenient
She's a woman where as you'll never be
>worst action game character in recent memory (even worse than V)
You can't actually believe this. If you actually do you need to go back and play the V levels with his starting kit. It's a literal non-game.
Eh, fair. I guess to me I can at least respect attempting to do something different with V even if it sucked ass, whereas Viola’s move set is so painfully generic that I wonder how they ever justified her inclusion in the game
>but I know people didn't like her parry mechanic.
The fact that the timing is drastically different to Bayo's usual Witch Time mechanic made it so that her levels didn't really click when jumping from one to the next. I've heard there's been a patch that changes the timing issue, though. May go back to try her levels again and Pure Platinum them if the fix actually made the awkwardness go away.
Parrying window is bigger, parrying no longer drops combo and she got a bat within equivalent
People who don't know Bayonetta 3 will mostly hear about it from the controversy over the voice actor and the controversy over the ending.They're not hearing about how hype Baal is, they're hearing how fricking shit Viola is.
Also i think you're the schizo, look at your own posts.
>Word of mouth
at r/trans?
>bought Bayo3 on release date
>still haven't finished it
Ha ha, maybe one day
nintendo kids don"t a give about games like bayoneta 🙂
This console is full of children, they are waiting for children's games
God I just can’t get over how ugly she looks in 3
This is legit good but you just know if it was a PlayStation exclusive all of Ganker would never stop bringing up how the game “only” sold 1 million as if that’s a bad thing for this niche genre on a single platform. Never forget how some homosexuals on Ganker still claim Bloodborne is a flop despite selling over 2 million in less than a year back when the PS4 had under 40 million consoles sold
I know Forspoken sucked anon there’s no need to bring up snoy in an unrelated thread
Just pointing out the bias here. Forespoken is shit, no one’s arguing otherwise.
Yeah it's a bias, but when sony considered days gone a flop when it sold millions you know where that mentality comes from
Get het go broke
>THE GAME IS LE HECKIN 9/11 FOR GAYS
Bayo 3 was a disappointment but it was all worth it for the seethe it caused to the schizophrenic shippers who made up entire headcanon about Bayo being some lesbo icon.
>110+ Million consoles sold
>Only sells 1 million
Bwahahahaha at this rate even Forspoken will outsell it
At least platinum made their money back
Forspoken? More like for tax write-off.
so where is the warehouse full of "sold" copies ?
Remider that Bayonetta 1 sold almost 3 million and Sega decided it was not worth to produce more sequels
2 million.
Not sure what the tail on this will be, but maybe it's reasonable to hope for about 1.3-1.5mill? Xenoblade 3 at 1.8mill, so that'll probably finish around 2mill and get similar numbers to 2.
Neither game was perfect, but both were ambitious and both were a lot of fun for me, so I'm happy to see my niche franchises doing well. I've heard similar things for SMT5 and Metroid:Dread, so really, it's happy days all around.
So it was about as successful as Astral Chain, I'm looking forward to that getting a sequel next
I was fully coping and defending this so much when it launched but now after several months, i genuinely regret it, and for paying $60 for the game too since i never fully enjoyed it.
I've only realized this after playing Hi-Fi Rush and seeing how fun and soulful that game is compared to Bayonetta 3, the game priced at only half that game really helps too.
please remember to subscribe to gamepass sirs
You know it's on Steam right? I didn't even touch gamepass
Yeah I kinda feel like a battered wife after playing Hi-Fi Rush.
Hi-Fi Rush has that peak 2000s Clover style but it also feels like a real refinement of character action pacing. Bayonetta 3 feels really clumsy and unwieldy in how it handles the mix of combat/exploration.
Hi-Fi Rush actually has a proper postgame too.
Elden Ring sold 20 million
Just started playing the first one on the Steam Deck. Still trying to get used to the combat, but it's fun.
1 million would be great if this was an indie game developed in a year and released on pc, it deserved flopping after going against yuri fans.
older games set your expectations and bayo 3 is the most successful bayo game
only ever played a bit of 1 back on the 360. currently playing 3 on yuzu. enjoying it
1's worth finishing if you've got the patience to go through it with a guide. Fun game, but some of the shit they expect you to do to get all the collectibles and find all the Verses is outright moronic.
when and why did Bayonetta become a nintendo franchise? weren't the first 2 games on xbox and PS3¿
Just the first 1. And when it came time to funding a sequel, Sega had a lot of their money tied up in Randy Pissford's abortion of a game Aliens: Colonial Marines, so it was shopped around to outsider companies for funding, and Nintendo was the one who said yes.
>Hack'n Slash No. 1000
Bayonetta 1,2,3 are the same boring game, nintendogays keep coping about the Sales but the game sucks
That's okay I guess, but I was hoping for 1.5.
I doubt it will reach 2 millions at this rate, and the spinoff is coming really too soon.
That's really higher than expected in such a short time frame, honestly. I remember Bayo 2 only sold half a million copies.
In 9 weeks, Bayo 2 sold around 700 thousand copies. (400k and 300k from Wii U and Switch)
The fact that bayo 3 get 1 million on a single platform is impressive compare its predecessor
aren't 1 and 2 getting a re-release for steam or did I imagine that
>2
Highly unlikely, Nintendo owns that shit. Not completely impossible after W101, but don't hold your breath on it.
1's already on Steam anon
1 million digitally? I find it hard to believe that it's only 1 million total when the game was getting to 3 spots on Amazon in several countries.
Only thing I remember from this game is the "controversy" where a bunch of twitter trannies got mad that the main character wasn't a dyke.
>here's your best action game of 2022 sir
holy SOVL
KINO
>big frog lady gets to sing and have a jolly old time
I'm thinking based
i love it
Can't stop listening to the Sinatra cover they did for 3. Debated it in my head for a while, but I think might even be better than Fly Me To The Moon or Moon River.
>a million copies
Oof, it's a niche game and her whole thing is being sexy. Not many people liked the new re-design and it looks like people didn't like her daughter either. I'm not surprised because it was a game held up by coomers. The only good Bayo game is 1.
But this is the fastest a Bayonetta title has ever sold a million copies.