| Kasz216 said: What does it matter that the Playstation brand was king? Less sales is still less sales that definitly would of effected it. As for it being what it is... If you ask me, based on the move, their focus on the west, and most importantly their predictions of BELOW past series. They were expecting it to drop on either the 3DS or the Vita, and figured the Vita was the better deal, espiecally with Nintendo Promotional help. |
Because if, say, a lot of people bought PSPs early on because "omg, playstation portable" and then lost interest and shoved it in a drawer or hacked it or whatever, they're not active buyers. The sheer size of the install base doesn't really mean much when it comes to established series, so I don't think we can assume that a series at its peak popularity would necessarily see a decline even if it was on a system that had declined over its predecessor.
And completely opposite to how they do everything else, Capcom always lowballs Monster Hunter projections. They "expected" MH3U to sell 1.2 million on 3DS. It sold about twice that much. There is no way they really expected MH4 to only do a little better than a port of an old game.
I don't really know what you mean by focus on the west. If they were focusing on the west, they'd put it on a home console.
