jarrod on 25 January 2010
| Demotruk said: I know it's part of a deal as well, but one reason I think Nintendo is strongly pushing this game is because it's pretty much the first and only AAA third party game that's been developed for Wii. In terms of industry perspective, it doesn't matter that Monster Hunter is a completely unknown franchise outside of Japan. They need it to sell in order to dispel the notion that developing an AAA title for Wii is 'too risky'. |
I'd go further than that and say the promised western push was probably one of the "carrots" Nintendo dangled to even get MH3 in the first place. Ditto for DQIX/X.
Sony actually did the same thing to secure FFVII way back.
