badgenome said:
We're talking about a specific series that has shown very steady sales despite a platform change. So whatever fans it might have lost (and I doubt it lost many) from the jump to Nintendo, it made up for with new fans. It hasn't brought a whole new audience to the franchise or shown some kind of tremendous growth. It's being bought by largely the same people who bought it on the PSP. So what is the argument that it would have performed markedly worse if it had been released on the Vita instead? "Because the Vita is selling so poorly" seems to be the argument, but that is overly simplistic thinking. The Vita is largely fucked because it lost the PSP's biggest franchise, but the PSP's biggest franchise wouldn't have been fucked if it had actually shown up on the Vita. |
Well first off, you can't accurately call it steady sales, not until next week.
It sold shipped 2 million in four days.... which Monster Hunter 3 had sure. It won't be until 3-4 weeks until you know if the sales are steady or not and what is related to supply. You'll want to see if it's within ~60,000 within 600,000 or so before you judge that, etc.
They predicted 2.8 Million by March interestingly... so one would assume Capcom expected it to sell less then the PSP MH.
Secondly, Vita was fucked and never going to be the PSP Long before it lost Monster Hunter. Unless it pulled out some X-factor. As can be seen by the fact that Vita isn't hitting PSP numbers like it did before Monster Hunter became a big thing.
That alone shows it would of shaved off at least SOME Monster Hunter base.
