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curl-6 on 15 September 2012
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the_dengle said:
curl-6 said:
the_dengle said:

The Wii game sold over a million units in Japan. Who knows what cross-play will do? Maybe to a Japanese gamer the only thing better than Monster Hunter on the go is being able to play your "on the go" Monster Hunter game on your tv in HD when you want to.

Tri on Wii didn't have to compete with a PSP multiplat of the same game at the same time though.

This obviously isn't about competition. 3G HD is a port for a console that hasn't been released yet of a game that came out last year on a console that now has a Japanese install base nearly on par with the PS3's. If they're "competing," the HD version has already lost. Hard.

But it's not competing. It's feeding off the 3DS version. The ONLY reasons to buy 3G HD (so far) are the upgraded graphics and the cross-play with 3DS. Neither of those functions are affected by a PSP port. People are either going to buy 3G HD or they aren't -- maybe some people who already have the 3DS version will buy it for the cross-play. Maybe some people who weren't interested in the 3DS version will be more interested in this console version. Just be sure that this game will sell something. Maybe not a million. But even Portable 3rd HD sold 500k, and I see no reason for this not to sell similarly.

Did it give the PS3 anything more than a small, brief hardware sales bump though?