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silverlunar777 on 26 January 2010
jarrod said:
silverlunar777 said:
I would buy a 360 if it was a Dino Crisis revival.

I though it might be something big/new, what a disappointment!

Between Monster Hunter and Lost Planet, I just don't see much room for a modern Dino Crisis.  Basara similarly seems to have killed Onimusha.

Speaking of Basara, I'm a little surprised Microsoft didn't secure a Basara 3 port while they were shopping at Capcom?

I missed shooting dinos :( It would have been so awsome...but your answer is logical.

 

lol at "shopping at Capcom"



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jarrod on 26 January 2010
quarashi said:
I like all the people talking about it's just a port to an unsuccessful PC game. I guess when we look at the dominant PC market in Japan it's easy to say this was a bomb...It's hard to overlook all of those lan centers around Japan which PC games prosper so well.

And to everyone calling it an MMO, it's just like any other MH game in Japan, there's a subscription fee. If we go by the logic, any game you pay a subscription for = MMO, than yea I can agree it's an MMO. But It's hardly that, just another MH.

I'm not sure where the idea that Frontier's unsuccessful came from?  The game has had 1.5m unique registered Hunters in Japan+Korea, it's more successful than FFXI even.  If the 360 release can tempt even half of that, you're looking at a possible subscriber base bigger than the audience for MGS4, Yakuza 3, Mingol 5, RE5, Vesperia, etc.  Not that it will, but Frontier was HUGE for a Japanese PC game and it's ubiquitous in PC Bangs.

 

Also, the game is more like a MMO-ish MH2.  There's no single player, hunts can accomodate up to 8 players and there's even versus hunts for clans.  Also, the city's massively expanded to accommodate more simultaneous players than the console versions.



naznatips on 26 January 2010
jarrod said:
quarashi said:
I like all the people talking about it's just a port to an unsuccessful PC game. I guess when we look at the dominant PC market in Japan it's easy to say this was a bomb...It's hard to overlook all of those lan centers around Japan which PC games prosper so well.

And to everyone calling it an MMO, it's just like any other MH game in Japan, there's a subscription fee. If we go by the logic, any game you pay a subscription for = MMO, than yea I can agree it's an MMO. But It's hardly that, just another MH.

I'm not sure where the idea that Frontier's unsuccessful came from?  The game has had 1.5m unique registered Hunters in Japan+Korea, it's more successful than FFXI even.  If the 360 release can tempt even half of that, you're looking at a possible subscriber base bigger than the audience for MGS4, Yakuza 3, Mingol 5, RE5, Vesperia, etc.  Not that it will, but Frontier was HUGE for a Japanese PC game and it's ubiquitous in PC Bangs.

 

Also, the game is more like a MMO-ish MH2.  There's no single player, hunts can accomodate up to 8 players and there's even versus hunts for clans.  Also, the city's massively expanded to accommodate more simultaneous players than the console versions.

Source on the 1.5 million registered? Even if that were true that would be the lifetime figure, not simultaneous, and did the 360 version of FFXI (which wasn't as late as this port is) draw in half of that game's lifetime susbscription base? No, it drew in about 10%...



zzamaro on 26 January 2010
Hisiru said:
zzamaro said:
Nightwish224 said:
It will help in Japan if this is fully confirmed.


Yes, it will help but just for a short time...remember Star Ocean the last hope 2 years ago? It helped 360 in Japan but just a little. Now that SO last hope is coming, no suprise Japanese will prefer to wait to see it coming for either Wii or PS3 since that game made it to the PS3.

Monster Hunter is a much stronger brand than Star Ocean in Japan (nowadays).


Yes, but it will be just a port from a 2007 game and you'll have to pay twice to be able to play the game and I doubt it will help the 360...

No doubt most of the Japane have already played it for  PC...



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Hisiru on 26 January 2010
zzamaro said:
Hisiru said:
zzamaro said:
Nightwish224 said:
It will help in Japan if this is fully confirmed.


Yes, it will help but just for a short time...remember Star Ocean the last hope 2 years ago? It helped 360 in Japan but just a little. Now that SO last hope is coming, no suprise Japanese will prefer to wait to see it coming for either Wii or PS3 since that game made it to the PS3.

Monster Hunter is a much stronger brand than Star Ocean in Japan (nowadays).


Yes, but it will be just a port from a 2007 game and you'll have to pay twice to be able to play the game and I doubt it will help the 360...

No doubt most of the Japane have already played it for  PC...

Not really:

"Microsoft is giving away free Xbox Live Gold with every Monster Hunter Frontier Online subscription. Expect to see a lot more Japanese Xbox 360 owners logging on to live this summer."

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/01/26/monster-hunter-frontier-online-fees-include-xbox-live-gold-membership/

It's an old PC game but it's very updated.



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gurglesletch on 26 January 2010
Sol said:
gurglesletch said:
Next MH flop after the wii confirmed?


Do you really want to go there? Soon we will have people bringing in lists of best-selling third-party console games in Japan, pretty sure MH Wii is in the top 5 might even be in the top three.

I remember it failing but since many say it didn't i will retract my statement about the wii.




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jarrod on 26 January 2010
naznatips said:
jarrod said:
quarashi said:
I like all the people talking about it's just a port to an unsuccessful PC game. I guess when we look at the dominant PC market in Japan it's easy to say this was a bomb...It's hard to overlook all of those lan centers around Japan which PC games prosper so well.

And to everyone calling it an MMO, it's just like any other MH game in Japan, there's a subscription fee. If we go by the logic, any game you pay a subscription for = MMO, than yea I can agree it's an MMO. But It's hardly that, just another MH.

I'm not sure where the idea that Frontier's unsuccessful came from?  The game has had 1.5m unique registered Hunters in Japan+Korea, it's more successful than FFXI even.  If the 360 release can tempt even half of that, you're looking at a possible subscriber base bigger than the audience for MGS4, Yakuza 3, Mingol 5, RE5, Vesperia, etc.  Not that it will, but Frontier was HUGE for a Japanese PC game and it's ubiquitous in PC Bangs.

 

Also, the game is more like a MMO-ish MH2.  There's no single player, hunts can accomodate up to 8 players and there's even versus hunts for clans.  Also, the city's massively expanded to accommodate more simultaneous players than the console versions.

Source on the 1.5 million registered? Even if that were true that would be the lifetime figure, not simultaneous, and did the 360 version of FFXI (which wasn't as late as this port is) draw in half of that game's lifetime susbscription base? No, it drew in about 10%...

Looking for a quote on the hunter number.  All I can find right now are other froum/blog postings, the Frontier news today is making googling MHF a nightmare. :/

And yeah, the figure wouldn't be continuous subscribers, but total.  Still though, it's impressive considering the games only launched in Japan and (just recently) Korea.  It's pretty much replaced FFXI as the PC Bang go to in Japan.

As for this versus FFXI 360, it'll do MUCH better guaranteed.  I expect Microsoft will give it a decent ad push, it's the first console port (unlike FFXI), the 360 version's getting the lead on new (Season 8.5) content,  the subscription's the same price as the PC version (plus you get free XBL), 360's are cheap, most Japanese don't own PCs... honestly, it's not a bad deal for MHF fans and it may draw in some new Hunters.  I expect this to sell about as well as FFXI PS2 did (say 100-150k).  No that's not huge in general, but it's big for a MMO and big for a 360 game.



Aion on 26 January 2010

I hope it sells well....



 

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SonySoft on 27 January 2010
jarrod said:
naznatips said:
jarrod said:
quarashi said:
I like all the people talking about it's just a port to an unsuccessful PC game. I guess when we look at the dominant PC market in Japan it's easy to say this was a bomb...It's hard to overlook all of those lan centers around Japan which PC games prosper so well.

And to everyone calling it an MMO, it's just like any other MH game in Japan, there's a subscription fee. If we go by the logic, any game you pay a subscription for = MMO, than yea I can agree it's an MMO. But It's hardly that, just another MH.

I'm not sure where the idea that Frontier's unsuccessful came from?  The game has had 1.5m unique registered Hunters in Japan+Korea, it's more successful than FFXI even.  If the 360 release can tempt even half of that, you're looking at a possible subscriber base bigger than the audience for MGS4, Yakuza 3, Mingol 5, RE5, Vesperia, etc.  Not that it will, but Frontier was HUGE for a Japanese PC game and it's ubiquitous in PC Bangs.

 

Also, the game is more like a MMO-ish MH2.  There's no single player, hunts can accomodate up to 8 players and there's even versus hunts for clans.  Also, the city's massively expanded to accommodate more simultaneous players than the console versions.

Source on the 1.5 million registered? Even if that were true that would be the lifetime figure, not simultaneous, and did the 360 version of FFXI (which wasn't as late as this port is) draw in half of that game's lifetime susbscription base? No, it drew in about 10%...

Looking for a quote on the hunter number.  All I can find right now are other froum/blog postings, the Frontier news today is making googling MHF a nightmare. :/

And yeah, the figure wouldn't be continuous subscribers, but total.  Still though, it's impressive considering the games only launched in Japan and (just recently) Korea.  It's pretty much replaced FFXI as the PC Bang go to in Japan.

As for this versus FFXI 360, it'll do MUCH better guaranteed.  I expect Microsoft will give it a decent ad push, it's the first console port (unlike FFXI), the 360 version's getting the lead on new (Season 8.5) content,  the subscription's the same price as the PC version (plus you get free XBL), 360's are cheap, most Japanese don't own PCs... honestly, it's not a bad deal for MHF fans and it may draw in some new Hunters.  I expect this to sell about as well as FFXI PS2 did (say 100-150k).  No that's not huge in general, but it's big for a MMO and big for a 360 game.

Thats a big number for a 360 game, and given that FFXI could only do that much but to add to the mix, MHG did 250k

However, if it does indeed sell that well, you can expect a lot more active 360 users. As you say, MS are treating it like a big game, chances are, theyll put that much marketing behind it. Even if FFXI did 15k, thats a lot for a system that had only sold roughly 100-200k, but more interesting, the expansions  sold only slightly less we can guess theyre pretty hardcore about the game.



epicberserk on 27 January 2010

Well this microsoft and capcom collaboration I bet u when it released in the summer in japan microsoft prolly coin advertise the he'll out of this and prolly be a special bundle with a xbox360 just like every big title they release I wonder tho what the other two games r hmm kingdom hearts and final fantasy ???