| Cobretti2 said: does it matter at what price it sells at? like people said it aint exacty THAT much of a bargain. 800K in 4 weeks is pretty damn good. People these days have unrealistic expectations. What did you think it would reach 10million by now at full price? Hell alot of Wii games here in aus when they launch now come out under the $100AU mark, otherwise people don't buy them as most in times like this do not wish to spend $100 on a game but yet they will pay 70-90. |
It does matter for how much it sells and only really ignorant person wouldn't see that. You see, the retailers buy the games from the producer and pay for them but that isn't the end of the story. If retailers won't sell games or sell them under the price they bought them producer may or may not compensate retailers' loss (wheter it's happening with MH3 we dont know) but even if it doesn't the situation will without a doubt affect any other furhter deals between retailers and given producer. Every developer wants to keep his retailers happy about carrying his products and saying that Capcom "got their money" so it won't matter (as you stated in the next post) is really naive.
Also Capcom just shipped about 1 milion units of MH3 in Japan. That a nice number, there is no doubt about it. But it is still far away from Capcom goal of 2 milion units. And don't even start with Western sales, MH3 is a Japanese franchise and only a tiny amount of its sales come from the West.
