Monster Hunter Tri - How did it do sales wise?

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okr said:

Soriku said:

okr said:

The Conduit sold 420.000
Madworld sold 510.000
These titles had very small marketing budgets compared to MHT.

Monster Hunter Tri sold 440.000 so far in the west.
It had a very large western marketing budget for a 3rd party Wii title, its marketing budget will probably only topped this gen on Wii by one game once it hits the west: Dragon Quest X.

Flop? No. Success? No. Mild disappointment? Probably.

You're comparing lifetime sales to 2 months...

I know, and I also chose only 3rd party games for my comparison which mainly sell to the "core" audience, just like MHT (I chose not deBlob for example which was a great success with nearly 800.000 copies sold without big marketing, but I'm sure deBlob sold to "casuals" and new gamers as well).

MHT will make it past 500.000, but not much more.

With my comparison I'm just saying: In my opinion the developers/publishers of The Conduit and MadWorld can be content with the sales of their games, but Capcom not really with MHT. I think they want to establish MH as a big franchise in the west, but MHT showed again that it only works to some extent.

while yes better comparisons in general still not the best to use.

1: monster hunter is not a new ip, though also in same sense it hasn't yet succeeded in west

2: totally different genre's as well

I mean this is going to be the best selling MH game in west, that seems like at least a "mission accomplished" to some extent.  Any game developer wants to sell more than prior game, and if you do that and are dissapointed then well your expectations were too high.  Also regarding the fact that it isn't a new IP, if prior sales were all around say 500k, then expecting a million this time makes me wonder "where is your reasoning behind that prediction"