Nintendo 3DS sales almost 400K a week without Pokémon.

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Kaizar said:

zorg1000 said:

SSJGohan3972 said:

zorg1000 said:

Kaizar said:

zorg1000 said:

Monster Hunetr 3 only being on the PS3 & Wii, and they really didn't want to port it to the Wii, but the PS3 sales at the time weren't that good, when they can make so much more money off the game by porting it.

 

Clearly the original intended console of choose for new Monster Hunter games was 1080p HD consoles, but something about playing these kinds of games in 240p 3D made them leave the HD ship for 3D, when it comes to Monster Hunter.

But if anyone has a more better theory about why no release on even the Wii U for Monster Hunter 4, then I would like to hear it.

U have no idea what ur talking about, Monster Hunter Tri was never on PS3, it was released on Wii in 2009 then ported to 3DS in 2011 then ported to Wii U in 2012. Mainline Monster Hunter has never been on an HD console outside of ports so there goes ur jumping ship argument.

To be fair he could be talking about Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. which came to PS3 last year I think - I thought that was kind of a port of Tri (but I've never played it so I'm not sure, I have the Wii, WiiU and 3DS versions).

 

Edit: still not PS3 before Wii and has nothing to do with why 3DS has MH4 though.

I believe Tri and Portable 3rd are seperate games. ya HD consoles have had Monster Hunter games but they have all been ports or non mainline entries.

My bad.

But my point still stands that Monster Hunter 3 was a Home Console only game, and now Monster Hunter 4 & up will be 3DS exclusives only. They ported 3 to the 3DS and made the Wii U version so you could play the game online with the 3DS version. But Monster Hunter 4 & up are just 3DS exclusives that already have online multiplayer on them.

Why would Capcom drop Home Console support and not port the new Monster Hunter games (4 & up) and not put It on the Vita.

If it was about Handhelds then the Vita would have gotten the Capcom game like so many other Capcom games like Street Fighter X Tekken, which never came to the 3DS.

 

As I said before, if you got a better theory about this game which was announced back in 2011 to be a 3DS exclusive, then please tell me a better theory.

Heres a theory, Nintendo payed for exclusivity.

In Japan handhelds are the preffered choice when It comes to gaming. DS/PSP sold over twice as much as Wii/PS3/360. Also PSP was the first strong competitor to Nintendos dominance of the handheld market and was able to get about 35-40% marketshare in Japan. Of the 4 PSP games to sell over a million units, all 4 were Monster Hunter games with 2 of them selling over 4 million. According to VGchartz, Monster Hunter accounted for 20% of PSP software sales in Japan. As a way to regain complete control of the handheld market in Japan, Nintendo payed for Capcom to release Monster Hunter 4 as a 3DS exclusive.