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(12-09-2017, 02:25 AM)Invader Wrote: I actually am curious who owns the Bayonetta IP. Is it Sega or Platinum? Sega published the first game and for some reason got their name on the second game's intro despite not doing anything to help development at all. If I remember correctly anyway.

Platinum owns the IP. The first game didn't sell as much as predicted, and Sega refused to fund a second game. If it wasn't for Nintendo picking up publishing, Bayonetta 2 would not exist! And it made a lot of sense since Nintendo was starving for 3rd party content on the Wii U, and it fit with them wanting more mature games at the time.

As more evidence that Platinum own the IP, in April of 2017 Sega was willing to work with them again later for the PC re-release of Bayonetta 1. They published it there! Nintendo certainly wouldn't have gone for that. ...and it kind of makes sense for Sega to have been ok with it since it was a digital only release of an already developed game so there was like, zero risk and essentially just free money.