Now that's just speculating. Both sets of data together make sense, so it's the best we got.

I think it's really hard to judge this game's performance. On one hand it's Monster Hunter so everyone expected it to sell great. On the other hand it's a port of a port (not even Monster Hunter has had a successful port-port) and Monster Hunter World was announced before its release. I wonder whether Capcom is disappointed or kicking themselves in the butt right now.

Yeah you're right. It's the best we got. Thanks for clarifying. Just to be clear, my intent was not to be malicious or rude, I genuinely wanted to see your perspective. I feel like my comments sound a lot more angry then they are meant to be(the username doesn't help ). You are most likely right that the digital sales on this  thing are pretty good. All things considered though, I still think it isn't that good for the franchise.

Which is entirely the fault of Capcom and not Switch owners. Expecting people to buy a port of a 2nd edition of a remix 2015 game is ridiculous. This being the 3rd iteration of a game that already re-used old levels, this was obviously going to do worse than the other games. I guess for what it is ... it's doing ... ok. But I think in the entire perspective of the franchise, it's not doing very well, even with digital sales. The fact that it's sold as much as it has just proves to me that the market is there, but Capcom need to step up to the plate and make something new and fresh.  I don't think adding digital sales really changes much of what I said though, it's still going to take about 5 weeks to sell through initial stock if it sells 20k a week physically, or about 8 weeks if it dips to 10k a week physically. But you're right that this is doing a bit better and physical doesn't tell the whole story.

So thank you   . 

S'all good

It's definitely bad numbers for a MH game, but all things considered Capcom should be fine with those kinds of number (300k total). The question is how much higher can it go before MHW releases. Like I said a few posts ago, it's MH on a portable, so I think it'll be good at the end of the road.

I don't understand how people consider this game a flop. It's a port of a port. It did better than other Monster Hunter ports on Wii/PS3/360.

I think the best comparison is MH3U on the Wii U, which did almost 110k FW, and 222k lifetime (on Japan. I doubt we have any "official" numbers from Asia or even the West).

So 3DS Version + Switch Version = 1mil?

3DS version has already sold over 1m by itself, it's sold around 1.6m at retail.

So Switch has probably passed another "test" (Capcom internal estimates for this game was about 300k lifetime I think?) - when are they going to give the system real support?

Oh nice. Capcom should be happy with that and Switch sales too