Well its pretty evident that advertising, and effort, have actually played a part in MH3's debut.
Anyone who disputes this is both mad and a fanboy. Just compare it to any other 3rd party release in the last 2 years and its clear.
Ill be buying this in two days. Ill wait for Red Steel 2.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.