| Euphoria14 said: I still can't understand how Sony let Monster Hunter slip away... |
It's not too hard of a narrative to follow. High development costs for the PS3 were more daunting for Japanese developers earlier in the generation (rather than now, where PS3 has become the default platform for big 3rd party JP console games), that combined with some definite efforts at courtship on Nintendo's part brought Monster Hunter G and the bigger Monster Hunter Tri. Nintendo's efforts then at aggressively promoting Tri in the West (which seemed to be more successful than any PSP or PS2 mounted Monster Hunter) then led Capcom to believe this was a sweetheart deal. Add to this the fact that the 3DS initially held promise of being as big as the DS, and you could see that Capcom would want to try to sink their claws into the DS market, and with the 3DS strong enough to run Monster Hunter as we know it, it was an easy decision to make
Now why Sony hasn't fought viciously against this, i cannot say. Sony seems to have done a poor job of money-hatting and cross-promotion this generation, something that Microsoft and even fricking Nintendo have aggressively pursued, though one could say the tradeoff was worth it for those who like Sony's first-party properties, which have improved as Sony's moneyhats have trailed off. The problem then lies in the fact that Sony Computer Entertainment seems incapable of making real megahits anymore.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
