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Sega: Bayonetta Won't Suffer The Same Sales Fate As MadWorld

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From its inception, Platinum Games declared its games were being engineered with worldwide appeal. MadWorld struggled to find an audience earlier this year for reasons Sega hasn't yet figured out, according to recently appointed Sega president and COO Mike Hayes.

But Hayes doesn't believe Platinum Games' next release, the hyperkinetic Bayonetta from Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya, will face the problems at release.

"I think there are clearly development differences between the two," said Hayes in a phone interview with me earlier this week. "On MadWorld itself, we're researching it as we speak to try and identify some of the causes behind that. I think Bayonetta comes from a background and a genre that's been already proven to be popular. I think with MadWorld we were trying to be so many different things probably all at once that maybe we pushed the envelope a bit too far."
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If they dont want the same fate of Madworld, maybe they shouldn't be releasing the game a day after Bioshock 2......just my 2 cents.
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cheapndirty - 95 days 7 hours ago
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Like Wii owners buy gamers that dont have 'mario,zelda, or Fit" in the title.
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MegaPowa - 95 days 5 hours ago
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Oh so that's why people bought smash bros,metroid prime,cod:waw,punch out and alot of other titles
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taliesin - 95 days 7 hours ago
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that might be the problem right there, Madworld was a gamers game and as such probably missed 75% of wii owners who tend to use it as a family fun system, not a games console....i know thats exactly what we use ours for, i have a ps3 for gaming
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Samus HD - 95 days 6 hours ago
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if it was in Wii, maybe it sells more than madworld,.';/
but it isnt ,. than no chance
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GFahim - 95 days 6 hours ago
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since the game will surely be LONGER than Madworld
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PirateThom - 95 days 5 hours ago
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It's on the right consoles to get the POTENTIAL sales anyway.

Say what you want, there are hardcore Wii owners, but when you take that user base, the people who like that genre of game and the people who actually thought MadWorld was worth picking up, it's not as big a number as the hardware sales suggest companies have to sell hardcore games to.
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Mahr - 95 days 3 hours ago
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"when you take that user base, the people who like that genre of game"

If there's anything the dissolution of Clover Studios taught us, it's that the number of people who like that genre of game isn't that big on any system.

Bayonetta should be fine since it looks to be more God of War than God Hand.
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