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forest-spirit on 18 September 2013
| pokoko said: Anyone who thinks that Monster Hunter wouldn't have sold roughly as well on the Vita is completely misunderstanding Japan and the Monster Hunter franchise. The Vita hardware curve would have began moving upward from the moment the game was announced. The Japanese would probably buy a Vita just for Monster Hunter, to be honest, but Monster Hunter PLUS Toukiden, Soul Sacrifice, and God Eater 2? Yeah, it would have sold just as well. |
Except we really don't know if MH4 would had done as well on the Vita. It's not as simple as "MH did great on PSP so it should do great on the Vita as well.". That's a mistake many did when New Super Mario Bros. U launched. NSMB on Wii sold like crazy and helped HW quite a bit, so surely people would go out and buy Wii U's in droves because of that game? System-sellers are great but they rarely set the world on fire on their own. They are helped by momentum, the already existing library of games, other system-sellers and/or the already established userbase.
I'm not saying that MH4 on Vita performing as well as the 3DS game is an impossibility, we just don't have anything to back up such claims.
