thekin said:
pezus said:
Soundwave said:
Where exactly does the Vita benefit Capcom at all?
- Lower userbase (much lower)
- More expensive development cost
They can sell far more Monster Hunter games on the 3DS at a cheaper dev cost. Why even bother with the Vita. Capcom isn't supporting the platform at all anyway.
The real reason honestly Sony even got a whiff of Monster Hunter was because the DS wasn't that great at running polygonal graphics. Now that the 3DS can do an adequete job of it, Capcom simply doesn't need Sony.
Japan's biggest 3rd party franchise should be with Japanese biggest selling hardware. To the victor go the spoils, that's the way its always been, where people crying this much when the GameCube didn't get Final Fantasy X or MGS2?
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Or when PS3 didn't get all the 3rd party games...oh wait. MH games sell historically well on Playstation portables and they could've continued that tradition on Vita. PSP really took off in Japan because of MH. A MH on Vita would've done the same. You really think Capcom doesn't know that MH would sell well on Vita? The only reason they could be ignoring Vita exclusively is because Nintendo paid for it.
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"MH games sell historically well on Playstation portables"
This statement is flawed because MH had only been released exclusively on the PSP for that whole generation, so yes it would sell best, seeing that it was only released on that system. And the best selling MH was Monster Hunter Freedom Unite with 5.3m, now if MH4 on 3DS can’t sell up to that number then you can say that Capcom made a mistake.
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Not necessarily. MH has been growing as a franchise for a number of years. It is possible that it will sell better on 3ds not because it's a ninty console, but because of all the exposure it received by being released on every platform available. When it was released on psp, it was still growing as franchise. We will never know whether their decision was right or not or where it sells better.
