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

[BaldrSkies]

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.)

The Monster Hunter "boom" didn't really start until MHP2G in March 2008. By then the PSP had already sold 8.5 million units in Japan. Monster Hunter did not make the system. It simply boosted what was already successful in its own right, this is not something to attribute to Capcom. If you look at PSP sales after each big MH release (MHP2G and MHP3), it gets a hardware boost but that boost dries up pretty quickly. You're really overestimating the momentum this one series generated for the PSP itself.