Monster Hunter 4 outsold the Vita!

[Kasz216]

badgenome said:

the_dengle said:

That said, I don't think MH would have sold quite as well on the Vita. The MH faithful would have bought one, but it clearly has a larger market to attract on the 3DS.

I do think you can find that, sometimes, a game's target audience is resistant to buying a certain platform or a particular console's user base is more receptive to certain games. Certainly JRPGs didn't move the needle much for the 360, and there have been late Wii->PS3 ports that sold better than the original releases despite the much smaller user base.

You are missing the more obvious point though.

Most people won't buy a system for 1 game.

 

Software drives hardware sales, which drives other games software sales.  They both feed into each other.  It's not either or.