Monster Hunter 3 Getting a Big Push in the West

[trangentspree]

Demotruk said:

trangentspree said:

Demotruk said:

bmmb1 said:

Demotruk said:
Of course it's strong sales, but it was also extremely front loaded, indicating that it didn't quite live up to the hype. If more people were satisfied by it and spreading their enthusiasm we'd see a longer tail.

Punch Out! was also heavily pushed by Nintendo the same time last year, but that didn't manage great numbers.

Umm... I wouldn't call 560k first week (beginning August 2009) and then going on to sell 1 million as "extremely front loaded". 5 months later and it's still selling regularly around 3k per week, which is more than most games in Japan do after a few weeks.

I would:

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Monster+Hunter+Tri+-+Wii[26681]&reg2=All&game2=&reg3=All&game3=&weeks=40

Ok, it's not Final Fantasy XIII frontloaded, but it's damn frontloaded by normal standards, and certainly by Monster Hunter standards.

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Monster+Hunter+Tri+-+Wii[26681]&reg2=All&game2=Monster+Hunter+2+-+PS2[3835]&reg3=All&game3=Monster+Hunter+-+PS2[1407]&weeks=40

What standards are you talking about?

These:

http://vgchartz.com/swlaunch.php?reg1=All&game1=Monster+Hunter+Tri+-+Wii[26681]&reg2=All&game2=Monster+Hunter+Freedom+-+PSP[3836]&reg3=All&game3=Monster+Hunter+Freedom+Unite+-+PSP[18542]&weeks=40

Even in your graph the only one with a worse curve than MH Tri is MH2. So Tri is the second most fronloaded of the series.

Which is what I thought.

You're basing your opinion on a handheld to home console comparison, which isn't fair. As the PS2 graph shows, it's a reasonably front loaded series that has seen by far the most success on the Wii console. Also there is a visibly (if marginal) stronger upward movement for MH3 than its predecessors.

And I certainly don't see how one example (Monster Hunter Freedom Unite PSP) constitutes the 'standard performance' when the other titles show differently.