If there's ANY game that Nintendo Switch owners and prospective Switch owners want
MOST the easy answer would have to be Pokemon Switch, myself included.
& is that really a surprise?
People have been pleading with Nintendo and Game Freak to bring this longtime dream to
life.
Them finally coming through on it is pretty big, buuuut, I'd argue Bayonetta is bigger…
YEAH I KNOW SHUT UP AND BARE WITH ME FOR A SECOND!
Here's why.
For the people that don't understand the concept of "the set up" let me spell this
out for you a bit a little earlier than I typically would.
This video isn't to say that Bayonetta 3 will outsell Pokemon on Switch, it's not
to say it'll necessarily REVIEW better than Pokemon Switch (although, let's be real.
JUST LOOK at these metacritic numbers!
EDITOR NATE!
SHOW THESE PEOPLE THE METACRITIC TOTALS OF THE LAST FEW POKEMON GAMES!
Ok…
Now…
Bayonetta…
Now a funny cat gif…
Ok…
I'm done.)
ANYWAY, no, that isn't what I'm getting at when I say Bayonetta will be a "bigger
deal" what I AM getting at is the potential that Nintendo has to have a literal groundbreaking
success with Bayonetta 3.
Not in sheer sales numbers, not immediately, at least, but in future opportunities for
that game's franchise and other games like it.
The thing about Pokemon is it's a known quantity, Nintendo has had the Pokemon audience
before, and they have had no noticeable effect on the sales of other games outside of the
known quantities.
Switch will grow by millions of new users, but, those users likely won't buy into a
lot of the games that will come to the platform, if they didn't bite for Zelda or Mario chances
are they'll come for the Pokemon, stay for the Pokemon, and little else.
Of course that's not a universal truth, but, if you look at the best selling Pokemon
games and compare how sales change for software overall for the platforms they're available
on you'll notice Pokemon doesn't really have an effect on the sales of other games
or vice versa, really like you'd expect from a system seller of it's caliber.
Pokemon fans will buy Pokemon and the system it runs on.
That's pretty much all you're guarantee.
Overall games sales may vary.
Up until VERY recently, Nintendo has been hesitant to allow games that are tailored
to more *ahem* "mature" audiences.
(Hey….. editor Nate, edit in a small child playing call of duty.
don't tell nobody I told you to.
Edit this out….)
Bayonetta is the trifecta of "mature" content.
Obscene violence, excessive sexuality, and strong language.
This game is a HARD M.
My proposal is that with Bayonetta, Nintendo will be attracting a new fanbase that's
into a different kind of game from what Nintendo is used to making which will ultimately lead
to more games in the Bayonetta franchise being made AND it'll usher in developers that
want to make similar games on Switch.
Look at literally ANY successful trend on a platform, once one company hits it big with
a game type, every other company swoops in to gobble up the scraps.
Wii Sports was a major success, so we got a bunch of motion sports and weird carnival
attraction games, back in the olden days Pokemon was successful, so we got a bunch of Pokemon
wannabes.
Bayonetta's success on Switch WILL lead to more risqué titles from devs wanting to
capitalize on that new audience.
The fact that Nintendo wanted this game at all says a lot even if you know nothing of
how the game came to be.
The nitty gritty details say a HELL OF A LOT MORE about Nintendo's dedication to this
franchise and ultimately about their willingness to allow games like it to thrive on their
platform.
Allow me to give a summary of the franchise's development and how Nintendo got involved
up until now.
This will hopefully help you to understand why I believe Nintendo is willing to do everything
in this power to make this franchise a success.
Also, why that's weird, or, honestly, stupid, if that investment is solely for that isolated
success.
According to the franchise's head honcho Hideki Kamiya, aka that dude that probably
blocked you on Twitter.
Bayonetta would've never lived on past its initial release if not for Nintendo.
According to Kamiya, as a studio, Platinum Games doesn't prioritize owning I.P.
As such, the future of the games they work on are reliant on the rights holder's funding
and or cooperation.
Bayonetta in particular, required both, from 2 companies.
From day 1 Bayonetta was wholly owned by SEGA who initially greenlit and funded the original
Bayonetta game for Xbox 360, later decided on a PlayStation 3 port (likely because of
Xbox 360's awful performance in the Japanese market, and recently made a PC port via Steam.
Because of this, they own the rights to the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and eventual Steam
version.
Later Sega began funding the production of a sequel for, and I quote, "multiple platforms"
unfortunately for non Wii U owners (aka most of the humans on this planet) they ended production
on the game due to and again, I quote, "circumstances at Sega."
As we all know Nintendo ultimately stepped in to see to it that Bayonetta 2 received
the funds necessary to reach completion and see the light of day, obviously, this led
to the other versions of the game being canceled and the work that went into the game folding
into the Wii U version.
This also means that Nintendo and SEGA co own the rights to Bayonetta, or, at least
the Wii U and switch versions of Bayo 1, and the whole of Bayo 2 and now 3.
Bayonetta on Wii U ultimately didn't sell THAT much.
Somewhere around 750,000 units, which, to be fair is pretty impressive when you take
in to account the meager Wii U sales.
750k units sold is in the ballpark of 10% of the install base which is decent.
Despite that, it surely doesn't come off as a big enough success to warrant Nintendo
deviating THIS far from their reputation and investing time and money into a franchise
like this AGAIN!
EVEN AFTER they saw that it didn't move the needle much for Wii U.
Keep in mind that Bayonetta's original release didn't sell to great either.
Not to mention the fact that whatever success they could've seen or potentially will see
with another sequel will have to be shared with SEGA.
All of this in conjunction says to me that Nintendo wants to do everything in their power
to ensure that this game is a success and it wants to do so for more than just that
game's sake.
To return to Pokemon for the sake of the comparison, clearly that game will be MORE of a priority
for them, it's already PROVEN to be a success, but, I think of it this way, and people with
younger siblings will understand this analogy so if you don't get it ask one of them to
explain in the comments….
unless they don't understand the whole sports ball thing.
In which case, Google is your friend.
Anyway, Baby's 1st Steps is a way more impressive feat to a parent than their older child getting
yet another 1st place prize in their track meet.
Pokemon is that child.
It's normal for it to wildly succeed at this point, because of its consistent successful
nature with little deviations in the upward direction, it's unlikely it'll attract
many NEW users, but, IF BAYONETTA 3 succeeds, THAT is another story entirely.
THAT will open NEW doors.
Pokemon is mostly old news.
Of course, as I've said, Bayonetta has by no means proven that it will demand a high
sell through rate.
Not if we're going solely off of quantifiable metrics at least at least.
EXCEPT the franchise's critical reception which, when taken into account alongside the
aforementioned low sales of Wii U, I think it's fair to say the franchise will have
a fair amount of latent hype or at the very least curiosity amongst new Switch owners
that skipped out on Wii U.
Franchises becoming massive successes through the slow burn of games prior being loved by
small passionate fanbases.
The most recent example would have to be the Fallout series.
Up until 4 the games have been modest successes but the hype cycle of all of the Fallout 4
confirmed meme hype helped propel that game to massive success of significantly more than
10 million units in the 1st week.
That was UNTHINKABLE for Fallout 3 or even New Vegas but the positive reception of those
games lead to people gaining interest in time for the next release.
This I feel is a trend that Bayonetta is primed to take full advantage of.
Pokemon on the other hand kinda already blew a similar chance at latent hype with Pokemon
Go.
Nothing short of a grand beautifully rendered gen 1+2 remake on Switch would generate anywhere
close to that amount of hype.
Anything short of that will go in most ears and out the other.
& don't take that as me saying Pokemon isn't important in its own right.
That isn't my aim.
In fact, I believe the exact opposite of that.
I still hold to my claim that Pokemon for Nintendo Switch will be the BEST selling Switch
game within a year of it's release.
But sales alone can't equal influence.
Or more accurately, new influence.
Developers know by now they can't necessarily benefit from or replicate the success of Pokemon.
They tried and most of them failed.
They haven't however taken advantage of a trend like this in its infancy for a new
platform.
Mature games on a popular Nintendo platform is new territory.
We've seen VERY little high profile games like it.
The amount with Nintendo's direct involvement has been nearly nonexistent.
This is them changing.
It will have a trickle down effect.
I am VERY sure about that.
So, if nothing else, expect something along the lines of a Devil May Cry announcement
within a few years of Bayo 3's release.
But those are MY thoughts.
What do YOU think?
Will Bayonetta 3 fall flat on its face?
Will it benefit from all of the latent hype and be one of the biggest games of the year
influencing dev's next step forward?
Somewhere in between?
Let me know what you think in the comments.
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That's it for me.
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