I feel the need to clarify something...

[Innsmouth]

I highly doubt Bayonetta was discounted that soon as 3 months. And if you want to bring DmC in, I bought my copy 2 months after release for 23€. Ninja Theory was payed by Capcom so basically they made win, independent from game success. Capcom still swings in red and looses money month after month. So let's not swing into hypothesis direction.

 

[Demi-fiend]

I never really felt Vergil's sword was much of a katana in DmC. That mostly goes to how the tsuba is so small, the blade itself not looking as a finely tempered sword, and the kisaki being pretty much a slant through then curved. The tsuka is definitely reminicent of a katana's proper handle but it has a strange circular outline near the kashira along with there being no menuki on the kashira. The sheath doesn't properly shift past the habaki and as such I always feel like it'll slip right out of it. That and the sheath is really thick for a sword that slim.

Then what would you classify it as? I thought it was a tachi, but after reading your description, I don't know what to really call it -- officially, I mean. Unofficially, I'm still calling it a tachi.

 

[TWOxACROSS]

I highly doubt Bayonetta was discounted that soon as 3 months. And if you want to bring DmC in, I bought my copy 2 months after release for 23€. Ninja Theory was payed by Capcom so basically they made win, independent from game success. Capcom still swings in red and looses money month after month. So let's not swing into hypothesis direction.

Back at my store, Bayo was dropping in price rather rapidly. I didn't see DmC hit the $30 mark for about a yearish. Keep in mind, these are new prices, and those are set by the publishers, so Sega could have already been jumping ship on it :/ However, these games also debuted in a time when used game sales became more and more prevalent, and DmC had a PC release, which means downloading it was always an option too. There's a lot of factors that completely jigger sales numbers.

I always say though, that Stylish Action Games never have incredible out-of-the-gate sales, they always trickle in because more people see how awesome they are through word-of-mouth and combo videos.

But then again, sales aren't indicative of quality anyway, so bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh~

 

[Innsmouth]

Back at my store, Bayo was dropping in price rather rapidly. I didn't see DmC hit the $30 mark for about a yearish. Keep in mind, these are new prices, and those are set by the publishers, so Sega could have already been jumping ship on it :/ However, these games also debuted in a time when used game sales became more and more prevalent, and DmC had a PC release, which means downloading it was always an option too. There's a lot of factors that completely jigger sales numbers.

I always say though, that Stylish Action Games never have incredible out-of-the-gate sales, they always trickle in because more people see how awesome they are through word-of-mouth and combo videos.

But then again, sales aren't indicative of quality anyway, so bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh~

I dunno where you live but DmC dropped in price after 1,5 month here in germany. Believe it or not. In 1,5 month it hit 40€ and after 4 or so month it swung around 30. HnS will never be fast-selling genre, but while quality has nothing to do with price, it has to do with decision for sequels, like it happened to Bayonetta when Sega scrammed sequel, because of their knee-jerk reaction to bayo and just like they attempted to stop releasing Yakuza overseas, because of the same thing.

 

[Sunaka Marién]

I dunno where you live but DmC dropped in price after 1,5 month here in germany. Believe it or not. In 1,5 month it hit 40€ and after 4 or so month it swung around 30.

That's not how I remember it. I'm not sure when exactly it dropped to the 40€ mark, but DEFINITELY not after only 1.5 month. That's ridiculous. If memory serves me right, it was at least 6 months until it dropped to that price. And it wasn't down to 30 until 'bout a year after the release.

 

[Innsmouth]

That's not how I remember it. I'm not sure when exactly it dropped to the 40€ mark, but DEFINITELY not after only 1.5 month. That's ridiculous. If memory serves me right, it was at least 6 months until it dropped to that price. And it wasn't down to 30 until 'bout a year after the release.

Just what? I bought it for 23€ online. I dunno if you talking about shops, but I only know online prices. I saw it on amazon after 1,5 months for 40 but decided to wait, since I though it's to much for it, so I ended up buying it about 4 months later, when I found it under 25 €

 

[TWOxACROSS]

Online prices aren't exactly 100% price-protected.

Eithet way, who caaaaaaaaaaaaaares. Let's talk about somethin' else.

 

[Elijah Guerrero]

Another Subject, if Dante (or Vergil) would get a glaive type-devil or angel arm in the sequel (DmC2, here is hoping), should it function a bit like how the Insect Glaive in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate move/combo-wise(with or without the Kinsect)?

 

[TWOxACROSS]

Possibly. In DmC each weapon had a specific reach and purpose to open up Dante's "threat range" in different ways - a glaive would be good for a lot of narrow, far-reaching attacks, possibly a bit anti-air with vertical sweeps.

Fun fact: In my DmC -Stairway to Heaven- story, Dante gets a kusarigama that acts much in that same fashion, narrow far-reaching attacks and anti-air.