Monster Hunter 3 first week numbers and Wii sales

[samus aran rules]

swanie said:

samus aran rules said:
Great sales! For comparison according to Famitsu:

With two days of sales MH3 583 k
Lifetime sales of MH2 (excluding best of release) 576 k

So MH3 is already the best selling console MH game and this with just two days of sale! Now it´s gonna be exciting to see what kind of legs the game will have and to what degree hardware will keep up. Will MH3 reach millionselling status? I think so but only time will tell.

One thing is for sure though, let´s hope that the annoying talk about thirdparties not being able to sell on Wii will stop. It´s been proven wrong once and for all. With a big title, good marketing and genuine work put behind a game, a title like this sells very well for Wii, possibly better than it would have been able to sell on PS3.

to be fair the PSP versions of MH probably increased the appeal of the franchise.

Yep you´re absolutely right about that and I still don´t think that MH3 will match the PSP versions since Japan is very much into portables at the moment and MH seems to fit portables better than consoles when it comes to sales but I wanted to compare the console MH´s because of two reasons, first to show that thirdparties can sell on Wii (which many has claimed was not the case) and secondly that MH3 easily beat the earlier consoleversions (again something which some refused to believe would happen).

If MH3 reaches one million in sales I will view the game as a huge hit since it´s very hard for consolegames these days to reach half a million in sales never mind a million.