Monster Hunter 3 first week numbers and Wii sales

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johnsobas said:

Zuhyc said:

johnsobas said:

Zlejedi said:

Lolcislaw said:
WOw these are some sexy numbers! And it sold so much only in 2 days, it will easily crack a million, and who knows maybe the game will become such hit as the PSP versions. It will be interesting to see what will be the second week drop. Soo... hardcore games can sell on the Wii?

Nice sales for the Wii as well, hopefully MH and WSR can sustain some nice numbers in Japan.

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=30098&region=All

Previous one so far haven't even doubled it's first week sales.

We will see if MH3 with a paid for online gameplay can mantain legs like PSP version.

1) previous ones had 4 days in first week, MH3 had 2.

2) MH wasn't as popular back then

3) controller bundles appear to have sold out

Munster Hunter wasn't popular 15 weeks ago?

I know what you're getting at but back when MH2 came out the game was far less popular, and didn't have the casual following the series does now on the PSP, it was mostly built on hardcore followers hence being so frontloaded. The question is whether some of those more casual players will see MH3 and jump over or not. That would determine whether the game has legs or not. Obviously it isn't gonna sell nearly as much as the PSP version but some of the success with casuals should carry over.

I don't think the japanese know what your talking about with that casual bs. I think japan is above the use of stereotypes and media branding/manipulation to sell violent games to teenagers, if they like a game they buy even if its got non HD graphics.

The rest of us are Uri Gellars spoons, bent to the whim of MS and Sony executives trying to keep any market share they still have.