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

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z101 said:

Shinobi-san said:

MS was huge on PSP and we already have a few games selling quite well on PSV in Japan...common sense says the game will sell very well on PSV (maybe not milions but definitely over a million). I also doubt that porting the 3DS vesion of the game or developing both versions at the same time will be overly costly. These are handhelds at the end of the day...not homes consoles with overly complicated architectures.

Obviously the MH-Fans has no brand loyalty to a handheld manufacturer. They bought the 3DS now as they once bought the PSP. A Vita version would not generate much more sales in addition, and would probably have a hard time to yield the port costs.

It was probably even easier for them to buy the 3DS now than the PSP back then, because the 3DS is obviously THE gaming device in Japan that gets all the games.

I don't understand this mindset at all. MH4 doesn't have a Vita version because of the agreement between Nintendo and Capcom. It's mutually beneficial.

Whatever profit (don't kid yourself thinking they would lose money on a Vita port) they get isn't near as lucrative as the agreement they were able to get.