Monster Hunter Tri in NA - How do you think it'll do?

[DarkCronos]

IxisNaugus said:

DarkCronos said:

i have the feeling eu sales will disappoint once again, seriously, in europe piracy is becoming a really big issue.

I hear this. I'm sure you've all noticed that recent Wii releases in Others regions have had rather poor sales in comparison to Americas numbers. Honestly, i think it's feasable that we all drastically lower our expectations for european territories. Practically all of my close friends have no intention to "buy" this game aside from me, as i flat out refuse to pirate or abuse backups. In fact, i already have one friend who has pirated the US copy of the game which was dumped recently.

Piracy may not be the main issue here, but there has got to be some viable explanation for the utterly dreadful performance of recent Wii titles in Europe.

i believe it's a combination of piracy (remember that in europe usually the most sold console is the most pirated, i know a lot of people that during the last 2 generations chose their console only basing on which one was easier to play pirated games.), the effects of the economic crisis, a growing disinterst in the wii games (except for NSMBWii, Wii Fit and Just Dance), and last but not least, a general lack of awareness. to let you understand: two weeks ago i went to my local gamestop to preorder monster hunter tri. the gamespot guy didn'even know a game called monster hunter existed. i had to spell the name of the game twice and then go to help him find on the database... clearly i'm the only one who preorderd MH3 in my zone :(