Capcom announces Monster Hunter Stories for 3DS

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Acevil said:

Nuvendil said:

True.  But let's not forget this is Capcom.  Intelligent decision making isn't really their usual shtick.  I mean, MH as a franchise makes more sense on home consoles for the west but that hasn't gotten through to them yet either :p

However taking away 4 million plus sales of the 3DS is a hard move. So I think they are smarter than you think, at least with Monster Hunter. Low cost games making 4 million plus Nintendo handling pubslishing versus higher cost and not proven western sales. 

Add: Also lets not forget, Nintendo most likely does have some monetary deal in place, so they most likely cover a lot of normal costs with that as well. 

Nobody is saying to ignore the 3DS. By all means, release the game on 3DS, just make a port for Vita, that would probably sell an extra 600k - 1mil. They could even do something like this. Release MH4 on 3DS, then MH4U on 3DS and Vita + Wii U, using the same assets for the last two consoles. And when it comes to Stories - just release it on both consoles.