We are coming up on some anniversities.
Next month will mark the seven year anniversity of Capcom announcing the switch from PS3 to Wii for Monster Hunter Tri and this week marks the 3 year anniversity of Nintendo's deal to offer Monster Hunter Tri and 4 (and 4G) exclusive to its handheld. Both events were considered big blows to Sony in Japan where the game was a staple on the PS2 and PSP. You only have to do a search here at vgchartz to get some interesting prespectives on how the two events unfolded.
Fast forward to today and it seems that, at least in the past seven years, Sony is in a somewhat good position to get Monster Hunter back to at least one of its consoles (Home). Recently Sony announced a new Dragon Quest musou game that, while not a main line DQ game, does represent a return of the series after close to a 10 year absense. Whatever Sony did to get that game greenl ighted they need to do with Monster Hunter. It doesn't have to be main line game but a game to transition the fans back to Playstation.
While the Japanese market has been extremely soft for consoles sales this generation, western sales have been on fire and this is where Sony can leverage their ability to get a game.
Sony's road to get the game back will be without its difficulties and preconceptions, What other ideas can Sony throw to get the franchise back?
