| zgamer5 said:
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MH was pretty popular on PS2. That's why MH2 sold 600k in Japan on it, which also came out after the series had moved to PSP and started really taking off.
Now, the series had obviously grown by the time MH3 came out, but it's not like sales remained flat on Wii either, they grew substantially as well (from 600k to 1m). Plus, the ancient barebones port of MHG on Wii sold exactly the same as it did when it was originally new on PS2 (about 250k), which is something that I don't has ever happened in Japan.
The thing to really remember with MH3 sales though, is to keep in mind that this is fundamentally a multiplayer game, but also a game which required a $15 monthly subscription to even have multiplayer. And it still sold a million units, far outsurpassing any other subscription based game in Japan ever (even PC games). FFXI only did about a quarter of that in Japan on PS2 (and MH2 outsold that game too actually). Nothing else subscription based though (Biohazard Outbreak, PSO/U, FFXI, Nobunga Online, Mingol Online, MH1-2/Frontier, etc, etc) has even come close. Even XBL Gold in Japan probably hasn't hit a million subscribers.
