Japan sales: Famitsu & Media create

[Viper1]

outlawauron said:

Viper1 said:

VGKing said:

I'm not mad bro, but Sony should be.
Capcom wouldn't do it willingly, Nintendo must be paying them. Maybe there's some form of next-gen timed-exclusive sort of thing? I just don't see why Capcom would willingly abandon a platform or company which made their IP such a phenomenon.

There should have at least been some Monster Hunter port from the PSP for the Vita....what the hell happened? I just don't think Sony will let Nintendo dominate. They have something up their sleeve to save the Vita in Japan.(I'm betting its a Monster Hunter)

You mean like how Monster Hunter Tri showed up on the Wii instead of the PS3?

Maybe it's the Nintendo dominating Japan sales factor.  

 

And are you implying that Sony will at some point pay off Capcom to get the MH franchise back on a Sony platform?  More specifically, how exactly do you see Sony convincing Capcom to jump ship from a 9 million install base (and growing rapidly) to a 1 million install base (growing slower than the Dreamcast)?

A real, new MH will do fantastic regardless of the platform its released on.

Only somewhat true.   A console sales driver can increase it's potential sales base higher than a game that doesn't drive hardware   But not the point that a 9:1 sales gap can be ignored.  And you can be certain the money people at Capcom sure as hell aren't ignoring it.

outlawauron said:

NoCtiS_NoX said:

Just like all the resident evils that was exclusive to gamecube.  

After a few months, with no annoucement, RE4 suddenly appeared on the PS2?! It's as if they had some timed exclusivity agreement!

Hey, looks liek those money guys at Capcom sure as hell didn't ignore the huge sales discrepency of the GC and PS2.

And no, it wasn't intended to be just a timed GC exclusive.  It was part of a 5 game deal with Nintendo that was inked not long after GC launched and was born out of the great relationship Capcom and Nintendo had from Resident Evil remake and the Zelda IP use..  The poor sales of the GC made the execs at Capcom push for PS2 ports of several of the 5 games and the cancelation of one of the 5 altogether.   Shinji Mikami himself cited their reversal of the deal with Nintendo as one of his reasons for leaving Capcom.  Mikami stated he'd commit Harikari if Capcom ported RE4 to another console.  Capcom later made fun of him by including "Mikami's Head" in God Hand.