Japan up

[Immortal]

Yakuzaice said:

Immortal said:

Chibi.V.29 said:

...i think u need glasses or something :P if you reduce the sales from america and europe then MHP3 is almost past the highest selling one in its first 7 weeks.

Yes, but it was, given this week's numbers, ridiculously frontloaded. It may be nearly there in no time, but it's not going to pass it by much, or at least as much as previous MH titles have their predecessors, at all.

We don't really know what effect the PSP shortage is having on its legs.  7 weeks after 2G, the PSP was selling ~82k.

Also 2G sold about 500k just last year, and you think MHP3 won't even do that much more lifetime?  When it hasn't even received a budget release that accounted for ~1.7 million of 2G's sales.

I don't see why the PSP shortages should have any major effect on this game at all - games with massive first weeks only tend to attract new audiences early on and later sell to the base.
I disregarded the budget release though. I didn't realize that there was one - that could make sales increase substantially.