| SxyxS said: if there was no market for the vita nintendo would have never paid 100 mio + plus to capcom to prevent psp's most important game to be released on its successor.Nintendo underestimated the psp and monopolised the gamechanging game to prevent another success. |
It's not that the Vita itself was always "doomed". There is a market for the Vita, or at least for what the Vita could have been: a PSP2. But just as Nintendo's audience is more price sensitive and thus more susceptible to mobile, Sony's audience is more game sensitive and Monster Hunter jumping ship struck Sony's handheld weak spot for massive damage.
I doubt Nintendo had to pay anything of the sort to get Monster Hunter. They're not really known for moneyhats, and although it wouldn't surprise me if they were willing to splash out some money to get Mario + Pokemon + Dragon Quest + Monster Hunter all under one roof to keep Japan on lockdown permanently, I can just as easily see Capcom wanting to keep PSP level graphics for another generation and possibly reach a larger and more mainstream audience than they had on the PSP. So it may not have taken them much convincing. And let's not forget that Monster Hunter had already jumped from PS3 to Wii.
