ACTUAL CAPCOM FINANCIAL QTR RESULTS, in their proper context -
"In this business segment, "Super Street Fighter IV" (for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360) and the online exclusive title "Monster Hunter Frontier Online" (for PC, Xbox 360) showed steady growth. However, overall sales remained stagnant due to weak performances of some titles: "Lost Planet 2" (for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360), one of our featured products, underperformed its projection substantially; "Monster Hunter Tri" (for Wii) grew at sluggish pace; newly-released "Ghost Trick" (for Nintendo DS) struggled"
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e100729b.html
So MH3 DID NOT underperform its projection substantially = good
MH3 DID NOT struggle = good
MH3 DID GROW at a sluggish pace = good. Typical of a Wii game, to grow slowly, but generally speaking its certainly not a case of Capcom blaming the Wii and MH3 for the quarters results. Weekly sales are two and a half times what LP2 is doing, and that released 3 weeks later in US/PAL.
Soooooooooooooooo in conclusion, wait for Sven's bullshit forum contribution for an accurate assessment of what Capcom Japan's Corporates actually think.
“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.
