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DMeisterJ on 04 April 2008
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.:Dark Prince:. said:
DMeisterJ said:
dsoverpsp said:
hmm.. i say LT sales of 3 million

Let's be realistic. The PSP versioon of the game hasn't even done that.


B-b-bu.. piracy?

All PSP fans have been SCREAMING about piracy being THE issue with PSP.
If a game can sell 2 million in a console with horrible software sales and sky-high level of piracy, it can sell 3 million on a console with solid (if not great) software sales.

Also, you say that because MH on PS2 sales sucked it will suck on Wii too? Sorry, but no.
[As many before me have said] The series has  become one of the biggest franchises in Japan.
Last but not least, it sold badly on the PS2 because it had no online mode (or if it had, PS2's online was almost non-existent).

It's like taking multiplayer from Mario Party and expect it to sell, not gonna happen.

/thread. 


So your basis for saying it's going to sell is that the popularity is growing.

It is!.... on the PSP.

Monster Hunter 2 did have online play, and it sucked... Much like online right now on the Wii does.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Monster Hunter Series, and I could see myself owning a Wii, solely for this game, but to believe that the game will sell well, because the PSP ones have sold well is very incorrect.  

Monster Hunter 2 launched in Japan after Monster Hunter Freedom launched on the PSP.  MHF launched in Dec of 05, and MH2 launched in February of 06.  Guess which one had the longer legs?  Monster Hunter Freedom.  So how has the series become "more popular", but a game came out after the "popular" MHF and sold less on PS2 than it did on PSP.  

Face it, the game is going to sell marginally better than Monster Hunter 2, but expecting anything close to PSP numbers, or above PSP numbers, especially with the Wii's install base, is very incorrect.

I put Monster hunter 3 at 1 million tops.  If it does anything more than that, I'll be very surprised, and eat crow, but my prediction is off of factual numbers, not saying "it will sell more, since the series is popular".

So again I ask, how do you predict the sales of a sequel if you don't use the past games as an indication?