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Green098 on 14 July 2017
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Boutros said:
Green098 said:

I think it means that I don't see Monster Hunter World selling 3.5 million in just japan alone like the previous mainline installment Monster Hunter 4 (over 6 if you want to include the expansion 4 ultimate, but I wouldn't directly unless Worlds gets an expansion although to be fair it did only release a year afterwards so I'm sure it did cut off some of it's legs). Anyways this means instead of growth from the franchise and instead we could see a decline at least in Japan which is bad news for Capcom since that's where Monster Hunter is the biggest. We can hope the three platforms it's releasing on in the west can make for it.

But was Monster Hunter Tri a decline for the franchise?

Sort of-ish but also not really, it depends how you look at it. Due to Monster Hunter 4 not releasing worldwide and with Tri it also included a Wii version in 2009 and a 3DS version in 2011 which is such a big release date difference which was sure to bring in double dippers. If you do add in the Tri and 4 Ultimate versions (which was the first time 4 hit the west in any form) it saw an increase.

Anyways Japan numbers only (which is where I was talking about for the decline for Monster Hunter Worlds sales) which is where 4 only released, it still saw an increase, not a decline.

EDIT: Never mind my bad it didn't decline in any way. Monster Hunter 4 includes 4 Ultimate, which was just an expansion on the 4th gen game, those too added together make up 7.38 million. While all the Monster Tri series  games; Monster Hunter Tri (Wii), Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate (3DS) and Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate (Wii U) make up for a total of 6.35. Even just looking at both base Monster Hunter Tri and 4 versions, 4 has higher sales of 3.44 million than Monster Hunter Tri's 2.22 million