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acdcste on 13 June 2013
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BasilZero said:
spurgeonryan said:


Last year there was nothing releasing early in the year. Capcom gave us Resident Evil on 3DS.

Resident Evil got older gamers interested in the Cube for a while.

Monster hunter pushed the 3DS in Japan, and is about to do it again.

Mega Man was a megaton at E3 this year.

They have helped Nintendo the most out of all the third party companies. Do you think the 3DS in Japan would be so big without Monster Hunter?


@Bolded Yes. Animal Crossing + Luigi's Mansion along with other nintendo first party titles proved it.

I wouldnt say RE got all the older players to get it, just a small minority of them. Pokemon X/Y will make RE and MH look like child's play when it is released worldwide this year.

Anyways RE did help I do admit but I wouldnt give Capcom full credit, there were other factors such as the price cut, the new model, first party hype and releases , other third party titles and those odd games that keep selling like hotcakes.

Anyways, Mega Man was OK I guess but Solid Snake + Sonic combo for Brawl was more megaton imo ;p.

Edit: Not saying Capcom didnt do anything , they were part of the process but Nintendo did most of the saving imo.


I think you are not giving enough credit to what monster hunter did for the 3ds in japan. You seem to forget that the 3ds was stagnant over there till it was announced that a monster hunter game was coming, not to mention the promise of monster hunter 4. Those announcements most definately helped push the 3ds over the edge in japan. Comparing luigi to monster hunter is silly as well, believe me monster hunter 4 will outsell that game by at least a ratio of 4:1. Yes nintendo releasing games like animal crossing would have helped eventually, but monster hunter coming out when it did made the big difference.