Japan Sales - Media Create,Famitsu, & dengeki: week 37 ( Sept. 9- Sept.15 ) Monster Hunter 4 Unleashed!

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Shinobi-san said:
wait people actually believe that Nintendo didn't pay for Monster Hunter exclusivity?

How do you explain the game not releasing on PSV as well?

If the game had gone multiplat then yeah sure, that would make business sense from Capcom. But exclusive to a new platform that the game has never been on before? Uhm yeah.

That would be a very odd decision from Capcom.

But then again looking at the numbers this week....with 3DS having a huge % of the market...the decision to go exclusive doesn't look that bad. But still the game would have sold at least a million on the PSV in addition to 3DS sales. That's a lot of lost revenue.

I don't think its possible for anyone to reasonably argue that Nintendo didn't pay for it. It was a good move by Nintendo imo, I don't see why people are trying to make as if that didn't happen.

If we are to believe Capcom, it's really a matter of timing. MH4 began development right around the time 3DS was revealed, and there was a good amount of hype for the new handheld. Capcom already had plans to bring Street Fighter and Resident Evil to 3DS, so why not another major franchise? Heck, MH3 was even on Wii (though that's because it began development before the series exploded).

But any excuse for not having a single Monster Hunter game on Vita (don't care if it's MH4 or even a port of an older game), however, does not compute.