{"id":18627,"date":"2018-04-27T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/the_switch_port_of_bayonetta_2_has_outsold_its_sister_version_on_wii_u"},"modified":"2018-04-27T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:50:00","slug":"the-switch-port-of-bayonetta-2-has-outsold-its-sister-version-on-wii-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/27\/the-switch-port-of-bayonetta-2-has-outsold-its-sister-version-on-wii-u\/","title":{"rendered":"The Switch Port Of Bayonetta 2 Has Outsold Its Sister Version On Wii U"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/the_switch_port_of_bayonetta_2_has_outsold_its_sister_version_on_wii_u\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/the_switch_port_of_bayonetta_2_has_outsold_its_sister_version_on_wii_u\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news5.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/the_switch_port_of_bayonetta_2_has_outsold_its_sister_version_on_wii_u\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/the_switch_port_of_bayonetta_2_has_outsold_its_sister_version_on_wii_u\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news5.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>While it may have struggled to keep a place in the charts, that doesn&#8217;t mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/bayonetta_2\"><strong>Bayonetta 2<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s much-welcomed Nintendo Switch port hasn&#8217;t performed in terms of sales during the first nine weeks of release &#8211; especially so when you compare it to sales of the original Wii U version over the same period.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/the_switch_port_of_bayonetta_2_has_outsold_its_sister_version_on_wii_u\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/the_switch_port_of_bayonetta_2_has_outsold_its_sister_version_on_wii_u\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\" alt=\"news5-1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2018\/180427_2e.pdf\">A report released by Nintendo in the wake of its most recent fiscal results<\/a> shows just how well the Bayonetta sequel fared during its February release. According to the sell-through figures, the Switch port shifted almost 400K units, while the Wii U version didn&#8217;t even break 300K back in 2014. Both figures combine stats from North America, Europe and Japan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Let us know what you make of these intriguing figures from the big Nintendo financial results. Are you still playing Bayonetta 2? Let us know below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it may have struggled to keep a place in the charts, that doesn&#8217;t mean Bayonetta 2&#8216;s much-welcomed Nintendo Switch port hasn&#8217;t performed in terms of sales during the first nine weeks of release &#8211; especially so when you compare it to sales of the original Wii U version over the same period. A report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}