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curl-6 on 12 August 2012
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Kenology said:
curl-6 said:
Kenology said:
curl-6 said:

I still think that MH's power in Japan is such that  a new MH game on Vita (Portable 4th of 4G most likely) would be enough to massively boost sales, even if there is an alternative. 3DS may have MH4, but if the Vita has an exclusive  MH game, people will buy a Vita for it in droves.

A pricecut and Assassin's Creed/COD should keep its sales healthy; a cut before the holidays could turn this corpse into a competitor.


I thought the Vita would get an MH game eventually and MHP4th sounded like a great candidate but I don't know if the Vita market is healthy enough to warrant Capcom putting out an AAA Monster Hunter game on the system.  If it where coming, it would have to come really soon, which it won't.  Also, it still wouldn't put it at any competitive advantage over the 3DS, since the 3DS would already have TWO full-fledge Monster Hunter games.  It would make Vita numbers respectable but then what would happen after?  Sony would have to release games to keep the momentum.  Considering they haven't released any games to build initial interest, that may be hard to do. 

One MH game can push momentum for a long time; see the 3DS and PSP releases. 

Also, Playstation Allstars could help the Vita.

PSP got a lot of software after MH that continued to ride that wave and kept hardware sales at a respectable level.  It wasn't MH alone.  And that notion that it was MH that pushed 3DS alone while ignoring the other two games of the trinity (Mario Kart 7 & Super Mario 3D Land) is short-sighted.  Playstation Allstars isn't going to do anything.  You're just wishful thinking now.

I didn't mean MH alone as in "no other games" but as in "only one MH game."

And Allstars could have an effect if it rides the success of Smash. Obviously it won't be even close to as big as Smash, but by offering a worthwhile alternative it could be successful.