| TheLastStarFighter said: 3DS will most likely dominate everything. Vita is kind of independent of that. If Vita gets a price cut and some interesting games it could become respectible. With MH4 launching on 3DS, Vita could also become completely insignificant and fade away. I'm not sure which will happen yet, but either way wouldn't surprise me. |
Why is everybody so caught up that Monster Hunter is the ultimate system seller? Don't get me wrong, it will sell millions in Japan, but in the rest of the world? Honestly I'll be surprised if it breaches million in US and EU combined.
Anyway I selected "3DS will Dominate it this Year". It's a matter of price and "brand recognition". It's a cheaper console and for a parent that is buying something for his kid, he would probably go with something that has Mario on it.
I don't own 3DS, and with current big titles that are out or in works, i don't feel compelled in owning one. But I do own Vita, and love both the hardware and software available on it. It's a matter of taste I guess. I did grew up on Mario, Zelda, Wario, Kirby... but at same time I did grew out of them too.
Monster Hunter 4 on 3DS is significant because it was a major reason for people to buy PSP, especially in Japan. It's the number 2 and 3 game in lifetime sales on PSP. It's the Japanese equivalent to Call of Duty announcing it's going exclusive on WiiU for next gen. People buy Nintendo systems for the 1st party games, but Sony and MS systems are generally pushed by 3rd party games. If the 3rd party games were to switch to Nintendo exclusively, there would be little movivation for most people to buy Sony or MS systems.
MH games are the only 4 games to be million sellers on PSP in Japan. There is nothing else. The PSV is effectively dead in Japan without a miracle. In the west it gets 3rd party support like AC and CoD which have bouyed it a little, but MH is an absolutely catastrophic loss in Japan. That's why people talk about it.
