| curl-6 said: Oh please, were you even on this site in 2009 when MH3 launched? It moved plenty of hardware. As for TP, you only have to look at the hype for it among the gamers who dismissed WW. |
Yet WW still sold 4.6m on the GCN. Hype is nothing but a crowd cheer in cases like that. TP sold because of motion controls during the dawn of the Wii, not because it was "gritty." A WW lookalike would have done the same.
When Wii got a resounding 100K boost that dropped back to below the Wii's base line two weeks later when Tri launched in Japan, it's most successful area. So basically 100-150K extra japanese people bought a Wii for Monster Hunter Tri. When it came out in the west, the Wii numbers dropped when Tri came out for the next two weeks. The Wii sold less with MHT.
100K WW for a console that went on to sell over 100m is not "plenty of hardware." Don't get excitable.
