Bayonetta 2 Drops Out Of The UK Charts Top Ten As Mario Bounces Back

Not really suprised, all the people who wanted Bayonetta (has never played it before or is major fan boy) bought it on release. Everyone else waiting for the price to come down as they already have them on Wii U or happy not to get it again.

It's as expected. Bayonetta is a niche franchise, it'll likely be gone from the charts the week after next.

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Just checked the eShop and Bayo 1 is in first and Bayo 2 is in fifth place.
So not bad.
Physical charts in the UK are always a challenge to Nintendo.

@tourjeff Digital sales are a fraction of physical sales. I don't know why people always quote the eShop to make things sound better than they are. Well, actually I've just said why.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE My point was to show that on the Nintendo sales universe, the games are still relevant and in this case I'd say they are probably selling more than the physical copies because people have the option to buy the games separated.
Therefore, people that have one game (or played one of them) might want to purchase only the other one and vice versa.
Anyway, in the UK, apart from big Nintendo releases, it is hard to see games that stick for a long time on the top of the charts and considering that Bayonetta is only a port with not extras, that was supposed to be expected.

I do want bayonetta but only if i can find the physical versions of both.

I know 3 people and myself that got both digitally. I sold my Wii U version to upgrade it to switch. Rather have it loaded right on my switch.

Mario Odyssey is a fantastic game but I really doubt the Luigi's Balloon update is the reason for it being back in the top 10

Anyone who'd held of buying it waiting for that particular update will be very disappointed

@Donutman Yes, but don't you see the irony? You sold your physical Wii U copy, now you've gone down a one-way digital street. You won't be selling this version or lending it to friends this time around. Not to mention Bayonetta on Wii U is physical also.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE that’s fine with me. Digital is the future. I typically only buy physical now if I plan on reselling it.

Fifa 18 on Switch actually climbs another three places to number 6 on the Individual Format Top 40 chart. Zelda, Splatoon 2, 1-2 Switch and Mario & Rabbids all climb too, nice.

The Irish troll obviously forgot to mention that Bayonetta 2 was completely gone from the top 40 on its second week on the Wii U. Yet the concept of digital ownership still escapes him.

Payday 2: Switch Edition is number 9 on the Switch only Top 20 (physical). eShop sales may not match physical sales yet but digital revenue continues to climb and is certainly not insignificant, far from it. Profit margin on a digital copy is much greater than a physical copy.

@Donutman You never know what you'll do in 4 years time or way down the road. You don't have those options now. You've likely got some digital code saved on an SD card that could easily corrupt and when the servers go down, you'll have nothing.

Games companies want us to go digital and want us to think it's the future. It's better for them, it eliminates the secondhand market for starters. I want to own games physically every single time where possible. In a digital only world, it means too that they can keep a digital game at €60 for as long as they like and not have to worry about retailers selling new physical versions of the game for dirt cheap.

@Donutman

Unfortunately you are right, digital is the future. It’s also a big ripoff.
I can buy games £10 or more cheaper than the digital prices in the typical eShop from Amazon.
I have friends and relatives that own the Switch and we all more or less agree to buy physical.

We have copied Nintendos slogan. “Share the joy”.

Please do not think I am telling or even suggesting to you how to spend your money.

@jswhitfield8 don't think Nintendo will go heavy in pushing Bayo 3.

Personally think it would be a waste of money. It's a niche series which will never be a huge mainstream title.

Nintendo knows this though. having bayonetta on a nintendo console is more important for Nintendo.

For a country that voted for Brexit just for the sake of switching things up, why are the top three titles always the same three franchises? C'mon, UK...

FIFA 18 Switch had a massive price drop. As for that witch, I'm not sorry to see a rerelease drop out of the chart.

I think the problem is this being on a Nintendo system. I'm not complaining that Nintendo do own Bayonetta, but there were a lot of people unhappy it didn't get a Xbox One / PS4 release and were not interested in getting a Wii U. The same people most likely don't own a Switch ether.

I'm more looking forward to Bayonetta 3!

I wonder if Bayonetta 1 is number 1 on the eshop charts partly because it’s a free download for those like me who bought 2 physically. Or if only paid sales are being counted.

Bayo games will be more popular if the witch starts wearing contact lenses.

@radioshadow. Those gamers are biased. There are a lot of games that are on other platforms and not on a Nintendo system.

Not surprising about Bayonetta. I am glad to see MH doing well though.

@ekwcll I think RadioShadow was just stating that more people would have bought it if the game was multiplatform. As it stands, people who want that game specifically may not go as far as to buy a new console to play it on. No bias, just maths. Unless, I misunderstood (perfectly possible).

FIFA 18 outsold Xbox one version for 2nd week running.

Number 2 in french eshop charts. Definitely will hit 500,000 - 1 million worldwide.

For a port that doesn't add a lot it's done well.

For a port of a last gen niche game i still think it did well. I'm more curious how Bayonetta 3 will performs.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE video games are just behind the times when compared to other media. Since 2001, I’ve been using iTunes and MP3 players for music. I had hundreds of cds I purchased in high school. But when I learned you could have all of them loaded on iPod, why do I need cds. Today, I still have all those cds, but I haven’t bought one in years. I just buy my music digitally. I get a new iPod, pc, iPhone, music is already ready to be loaded on my new device. I could say the same thing about DVD’s. Now when you buy a dvd, you get a digital version as well. Video games will be like this someday. And if Nintendo switch is really starting at 0, like Nintendo said, and digital is really the future, I can see that 10 or even 20 years from now that I am still playing games on switch.
And guess what all my cds and DVD’s I owned all these years are worth? Nothing. Yes, I used to trade a lot of games over the years, but really, getting $5 for something after spending $60 on it. I’d rather have the convience of having the games I really want, loaded on my system.

@JoeDiddley I'd imagine any download will count towards it's eShop chart position, whether it's a redeemable code or genuine purchase.

@Grawlog Thanks for reminding me, I meant to post some figures about Japanese Switch software sales. And Japan is bigger in to digital sales than much of the West. A couple of examples:

Splatoon 2's digital sales are 178,101. Remember, Splatoon 2 recently passed 2 million physical sales in Japan alone, that's well under 10% of its sales digitally. Percentage wise, it's even less for the next few games listed.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild again on Switch has sold well over 870,000+ physical units, versus 64,738 digital.

Super Mario Odyssey, 111,394 digital versus 1,614,506 physical.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, 89,042 digital versus 1,346,387 physical.

And on and on it goes.

Bayonetta 2 didn't do anything for the WiiU - no idea why anyone thought a port would do much for the Switch. This will start to sell once it gets a price drop.

Another new game for the PS4 on the top 10. Same old stuff for the Switch. It is a Snooze fest on the Switch right now.

Can we talk about how low Metal Gear Survive debuted. This is a Metal Gear game and it doesn't even debut in the top 5 let alone number one.

Serves Konami right after their poor treatment of Kojima and trying to slap the Metal Gear name on what seems to be a boring survival game.

@MartyFlanMJFan so we probably can’t get too excited about being top of the eshop charts either then

Isn’t the big news here that FIFA18 is really picking up steam on the Switch in UK? Implying the casuals are getting onboard and hopefully more big third party titles will make an appearance on Switch.

@JoeDiddley it ain't money in my pocket so I'm not going to be overly excited either way lol. But it's good for visibility I suppose, people initially uninterested or unaware will see those two titles riding high in the eShop and check them out.

Bayonetta 2 on Wii U fell out of the Top 40 during its 2nd week, so it's nice to see the Switch version sustain decent legs.

BTW Bayonetta 2 sold 10,000 copies at launch in Spain, which means the game sold more in Spain than in the UK. Mind you that the Switch has sold ~350,000 units in Spain vs ~720,000 units in the UK.

It's pretty clear that you cannot judge the success of a game based on its sales in the UK and Japan alone.

@beazlen1 well if they want to sell their AAA games at fire sale price of £22. This is retailers/EA killing off old inventory. It is even more discounted that the PS4 version.

Bayonetta 2 is just a great game to play on the Switch. Playing a game of that magnitude anywhere you want is so much fun. If you don't own the game for the Wii U I would highly recommend this game. It doesn't sell boatloads or is very mainstream series but it has very high reviews everywhere you look (scored 90 on metacritic). I love how everything in the game is just over the top craziness. I admit unless you are a huge fan of the series like me there isn't much reason to double dip, but if you never have or have been thinking about playing this series and you own a Switch then now is definitely the time.

@Agramonte Fifa 18 has been and will continue to be discounted many times on the other consoles, and packed in with them, getting it into people's homes. This is no different.

@MartyFlanMJFan good point, hopefully

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Japan's digital sales are far lower than the west's digital sales. Please dont spread misinformation.

"Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, 89,042 digital versus 1,346,387 physical."

In the US, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 90,000 digital copies in its first 2 days.

@MartyFlanMJFan It sold millions of copies on the other consoles at full price at launch - it bombed on the Switch. Sure there is a difference to the publisher - it is called profit.

I basically went in blind with Bayonetta 2. I'm glad I did. I even got my brother in on it. He watches me play just for the zany, over-the-top story that even has a lot of heart. I'm definitely buying Bayonetta 3 when that rolls out.

(I bought a physical copy. I'm in the US.)

Considering the amount of games that are out there, I'm at least glad it placed somewhere. I wasn't expecting much for a game that was basically unknown to the Grand Theft Auto-buying masses.

@Agramonte you think they made no profit on FIFA 18 on Switch? It'll be a million seller on Switch, no doubt, and it sold it's initial shipment, it was impossible to get from the likes of Amazon physically at launch. Whatever expectations they had for it, its exceeded them. My brother picked up FIFA 13 on Wii U a number of years ago for £4.99 from Argos, that's a fire sale, & it didn't suddenly appear in the charts at that price either. FIFA 18 on Switch is the sixth biggest selling individual game in the UK for last week, up from number 9, and that's a positive, whatever way you choose to look at it.

@MartyFlanMJFan absolutely no doubt FIFA has done the numbers EA expected. People have short memories have forgot just how bad FIFA sold on Wii U.

Good thing is that the development team should get a bigger budget and more time for FIFA 19 on switch.

@kobashi100 exactly. Nobody, least of all EA, were expecting the sort of numbers it's guaranteed on the other platforms. Fifa 18 has been a success on Nintendo Switch I don't care what anyone says, and that's good going forward.

The Switch has sold 1 million units in France, making it the fastest selling console ever in France.

@MartyFlanMJFan A million seller at $20. it was 3% of sale in the UK - it was already in the news - it failed. This is selling because it is $20 , These are eShop Indie prices at retail.

@Agramonte Keep telling yourself that if it pleases you, but even when it wasn't in the Individual Format Top 40 unit sellers, it remained in the Individual Format Value chart, so it was generating revenue, which is the important thing, and in that particular chart it's currently number 13, up one place from last week. They sold plenty at full price, and at a full price that was generally HIGHER than on other platforms, despite not having the development costs of the other versions.

@MartyFlanMJFan I wouldn't waste your time dude. Plenty of people were quick to shout out loud that FIFA 18 was a failure on switch and EA wouldn't be back for FIFA 19. Them people will be proven wrong again!

An old ported game at a new game price, won't have a long shelf life.

@DiscoDriver44 Well, the fact the game charges $10 for a new save slot (Which I hope does not catch on) and a developer left a hidden message calling Konami and several others on their BS probably did not help a game that already people don't care that much for...

@zool While GTA V is still going nowhere, and even longer if a Switch port does happen....

@RadioShadow Can't be the problem since 1 didn't sell that well on the PS3/360. Which lead the franchise to Nintendo in the first place.

@RadioShadow "Same people most likely don't own a Switch ether."

I'm sure that Nintendo doesn't intend to sell Switch games to people who don't own a Switch and have no intention to buy a Switch. Bayonetta has never sold very well, by the way. It sold about 400K copies on Steam.

@SethNintendo nonsense. So because you have a couple niche games, then the rest of the world should just keep buying physical. You sound like someone who still buy records because the sound quality is so much better. Yea, those people are keeping the music industry alive.
And yes, I know that records are making a come back, for collectors who want to pay $40 for one instead of $10 off iTunes. Heck, even Best Buy is stopping selling cds because they know it’s bad business to bother stocking them. Just like Bob Dylan sang, “the times they are a changing.”

8 of my friends have a switch and we all own both Bayonetta 1 and 2 digitally.

@SethNintendo. Also thought I’d point out that this particular article is a good example of what we talking about. A niche series like batonetta is not keeping the gaming world alive. I am also going to sat that bayonetta 2 is one of the best games in the genre. As I commented earlier, I sold my Wii U version so I could go digital with both on switch.

Bayonetta is evidently doing great in the US. It's still like #30 in the Amazon Top 100 Sellers list for all video game related items, and has completely locked down the eShop with the #1 and #2 spots since it launched. Which I can understand the first game because there were digital codes included but the second game is right there next to it.

They should have marketed the game more though- because truthfully it's one of the best video games to release in years. I think it scored more perfect 10/10's than any other game that year. It's the absolute very best Platinum Games has ever produced, and it's one of the best games you can buy on the Nintendo Switch. Right up there with Zelda BotW, Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade 2, DOOM with motion controls or Mario Kingdom Battle (the list of incredible, must-own games is getting pretty big)

Nintendo will have printed modest bayonetta cartridges for first run of bayonetta.

They know it's not not gonna be massive seller. Just needs to make profit

yes! mario is number one!

Couldn’t buy it, NONE of the supermarkets/game stored near me even stocked it. They just didn’t get any in.

Still waiting for it to show up in store so I can purchase it but until then, it hasn’t been ‘released’ to me

They need to drop the price. At this point a port with virtually no noticable upgrades should be cheaper than when first released. Look at Shadow of the Colossus. It was completely Remade from the ground up for PS4 making it one of the best remakes ever released. Not just a straight port. Yet it's priced at a reasonable 39.99.

The thing is, I have Bayonetta 1 & 2 on Wii U. And the Wii U versions are excellent. I’m not made of money and I don’t need them on my Switch. But if you haven’t played them, I would highly recommend both of them, I actually preferred Bayonetta 2!

I’ll be getting Bayonetta 3 though, I’m looking forward to it!