Capcom: “We’ve Got no Plans for a PS Vita Monster Hunter at the Moment”

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ECM said:

BaldrSkies said:
It's kind of a myth that Monster Hunter made the PSP a success in Japan. It added maybe a few million sales, but given that the hardware sales is nearly 20 million (that's well beyond even the Wii) a few million from MH wouldn't make or break the system.

You he no idea how this works, do you? It's called *momentum*. The PSP derived almost all of the momentum that 'made' the platform from Monster Hunter--take that away, and it wouldn't have sold anywhere near the number of units it did. 

(It is *not* about absolute numbers, or you could say that COD had no beneficial effect on 360 since it 'only' sells 12-million units a year in a userbase of 70-million--*if* single games in a franchise are selling to 20%+ of a systems' overall userbase, you can be damn sure that game is woth its weight in gold, and its effects are far more than just the sum of the sales of any one SKU.)

Agreed. People tend to forget or underestimate the significance of momentum. Even if people don't buy MH, their friends might get a psp for it and talk about it. This is what helps sales. iphone wasn't a success solely because of quality, but to a great extent becuase of hype and people talking about it. One of the many reasons vita is failing hd sales-wise is that it's not perceived as a hot product and thus not something cool to own no matter how good it is. I bought a psp in the first place before joining the army, only because of the word of mouth from friends who finished their military service. No single game was the reason.