Why didn't Big 3rd Parties give Vita the B.O.T.D.?

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eFKac said:

I disagree. I mean we didn't get a 1 million selling week for the 3DS when MonHun released. I don't see such a week for the Vita if MonHun released exclusively on it. I don't think it would have sales of the first couple of months even comparable to those we have now. It may crawl to those levels in time, but it would be a way worse deal for Capcom, not to mention the moneyhat $$$.

Of course you have a undeniable point that if MonHun 4 would be exclusive to the Vita the baselines for both handhelds would most probably be different, more favorable for the Vita, less for the 3DS. But has been trying hard to get the hunter genre fanbase on the Vita anyway, and I think a lot of them have the system, and as I said MonHun 4 going by hardware sales sold mostly to the existing 3DS userbase, whether it's the monster hunter, or hunting genre userbase in general (don't know whether there are any other hunting games on the 3DS) they have not jumped on the 3DS the day MonHun 4 released, they were there earlier. So to conclude, I think it was easily the better deal for Capcom to release the game on the 3DS, Vita wouldn't sell the game as well in the opening weeks at least and no additional money from Nintendo.

Chicken or the Egg dilemma....

Third Parties are hesitant to put efforts on Vita because its not selling faster.

or

Vita isn't selling as much because 3rd Parties haven't released their big games for it(MonHun).

I think its the latter. This is why I think MH4 could have potentially done just as well(minus moneyhatt) on Vita. There are 3 big obstacles in Vita's way.

1. Lack of Big 3rd Party Support

2. Price Barrier to get Vita.

3. Lack of good Advertising.

2 and 3 are in Sony's court and over the last year and a half they have been working at that.  They can only do so much without 1 tho. In the future Sony definitely should want to built their own arsenal of games to put on future Vita iterations. Their console series are a duh, but also things like Gravity Rush. Sony will need to make games that you always know will be there. Like Pokemon is for 3DS. This would save them from being completely 3rd party dependent as they are now for the handheld.