Bayonetta Given Western Demo Date
Bayonetta has been receiving top scores across the board, becoming the 11th game ever to get a 10 out of 10 from Edge, and also earning full marks from Famitsu Magazine. Now, Sega has announced that the Western demo of Bayonetta will get a US and EU release next Wednesday for the PlayStation Network, as well as the Xbox Live Marketplace. Bayonetta, which will release on January 8th in the west, is the latest game from Devil May Cry creator Hideki Kamiya, who PlayStation LifeStyle recently interviewed.
The full Press release is available below.
SEGA of America Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. can today announce that a demo for the much anticipated third person action title BAYONETTA will be released on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network in the US and across Europe on December 3rd.
“Developer PlatinumGames has delivered a true masterpiece,” said Gary Knight, European Marketing Director of SEGA Europe. “The recent perfect review scores in such highly respected magazines as Weekly Famitsu and EDGE show the sheer quality of this title. We firmly believe that BAYONETTA will go on to become one of the all-time benchmarks in action gaming.”
BAYONETTA has achieved a perfect score of 10/10 in EDGE magazine in the UK, becoming only the 11th game to do so in the magazine’s history since its first issue in 1993.
BAYONETTA was also recently reviewed by Japan’s most respected games magazine Weekly Famitsu, achieving a perfect score of 40/40 for Xbox 360 and 38/40 for PlayStation 3, with both scores garnering a Platinum award. BAYONETTA is only the 12th game ever to receive a perfect score in the magazine’s history since its first issue in 1986.
BAYONETTA is set for release in the US on January 5th and across Europe on January 8th 2010 on Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. BAYONETTA was released in Japan on October 29th.
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November 24th, 2009 at 6:25 AM
so it confirms the PS3 version is inferior???
sad thing a company (Microsoft) is allowed to ask developers to develop inferior version for the competitor console
November 24th, 2009 at 8:41 AM
@ TheTenth – I don’t understand why developers agree to it… it just seems like bad business.
I’ve been keeping my eye on this one for a while now, it’ll be nice to finally try it out. Its one of those games that looked like it could be really really good, or really really bad. Seeing those scores has me really interested.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:19 PM
A friend of mine played the demo and he said the game is full of WTF moments and he had no clue what the hell was going on, he also said that made it all the more awesome and he couldn’t wait to buy it.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Hop over to the forums for more info on Bayonetta , some of our friends already have it and love it.
Despite Sega porting it.
November 24th, 2009 at 4:55 PM
l can’t wait to rent this game
November 26th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
2 points less for the ps3…. what.