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okr on 28 June 2010
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Soriku said:
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.

For the first two months Conduit sold 230k and grew to 420k. Madworld went from 200k to 510k. Capcom's expectations are 500k for the fisical yea rand it's going to hit that mark way before that. The game has a shot at 700k or more lifetime. Also, Conduit and Madworld had good marketing.

We will never know the marketing budgets of Conduit and MadWorld, but I assume they paled in comparison to MHT. Let's not forget MHT got a classic controller bundle as well to push the game (and I remember some VGC members saying they'll give the franchise a try just for the added controller). Capcom and Nintendo marketed this game very well imo and I'd never claim that MHT was or will be a flop (you're probably right that it even has a shot at 700.000 LT, we will see). Maybe I was expecting too much, but I still think it can't be called a success. I'd call the sales good if the game wasn't marketed so heavily, now I call them just okay.