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MDMAlliance on 18 September 2013
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Shinobi-san said:
MDMAlliance said:
Shinobi-san said:

Yep porting the game to PSV would cost money. Possibly tens of of millions. However the franchise is a multi million seller and those costs will be easily recovered.

That completely assumes that the 3DS maintains its current numbers and that the Vita version also does 1m+ copies, which I HIGHLY doubt would have happened.  Especially since doing both versions would also take more time as well, which would in turn make it cost even MORE money for BOTH versions.  There's no guarantee that making a PS Vita version would have optimized profits.  It may as well have hindered it, because having both versions the PS Vita version would either have sold 500k or less, or the 3DS version would have decreased sales (which in turn still can account for worse profits for Capcom).  I'm not saying it isn't possible for it to have "optimized" profits, but it's conjecture... and bad one at that.

Dev costs for handheld games have never really been very high. It would be relatively easy to recover those costs. It wouldnt even need to sell millions really or even a million.

@bolded if you feel going multiplat was more likely going to hurt sales then we have a fundamental difference in opinion. I base my opinion on how games sell on home consoles and just in general. More platforms means more sales ( i cant think of a case where this wasnt the truth). And i think MH is a pretty strong franchise in Japan that can easily sell millions on both the 3DS and PSV.

Please, dont mistake me for some disgruntled PSV fanboy. I dont own the system and probably never will. But to suggest that the best option for Capcom was to go with 3DS exclusivity to maximise profits, revenue and brand growth...? Especially when they have an established fan base on the competeting console's predecesor. I think thats plain wrong. But anyways il leave it at that. I was just surprised by the amount of people arguing against Ryuzaaki (hes point about the game being paid for by Nintendo, not the part about it being inferior etc.).


I think you misunderstand.  I don't think multiplat will hurt sales.  I think that it doesn't guarantee more profits due to higher costs for not just development, but advertisement as well.  There's really nothing saying that the increased number of buyers for it being multiplat would be all that large in any way.  The most likely situation is that between the PS V and 3DS (if it were on both release date) would be only about 100k units more.  I'm not saying the PS V version would get 100k sales, but that the chances are that the 3DS version would have less and the PS V version would only bring in probably 100k new users in that first week.  That is not maximizing profits.  That's taking a risk and also taking the risk of releasing it in 2014 rather than 2013.

Also, I didn't say anything about brand growth.