Talk:Bayonetta 2/@comment-24540535-20140312092433/@comment-1661895-20140313000144

You'll need to keep in mind that Amazon and other online companies always put dates in a year that are unspecified as 31st December of a given year. For example, since the game is touted as being 2014, they have put the release date as the last day of the year since nothing has been announced. The same thing applies to all sorts of pre-orders with unspecified dates besides a year.

Since the Japanese Nintendo Direct said the game would be released there in Summer of this year, it's most likely the release for the game will actually be in the Fall. Don't trust any sources like that until Nintendo or Platinum issue a date.