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Soundwave on 14 June 2017
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Teeqoz said:
sc94597 said:

But they also cost more to develop if attempting to compete with AAA titles (which is what Capcom must do to be relevant in the West on home consoles/PC's.) Any gains from retail price, likely will be eaten up by development costs. The game probably would've retained an AA budget expectation on Switch where the competition isn't so AAA dependent. If Capcom tries to make an AAA game on an AA budget they are going to fail to get the Western sales growth they hope for. 

One other thing to consider is that Nintendo heavily subsidized marketing and localization costs for the 3DS titles. Sony might be doing something similar, but it remains to be seen, especially when we consider that it is a multiplat. 

I know, which is why I wrote "This can go a long way in recuperating extra development costs" and that it has to cross a certain unit sales barrier for it to pay off (exactly what that unit sales barrier is depends on the development cost of the game, and what Sony pays versus what Nintendo might've payed, so it's hard to say anything definitive about how high that barrier is). I don't however think this title is doomed to fail as many people have implied.

It won't fail. It will be a large decline in sales though. 

PS2 and Wii, two hugely successful consoles have had Monster Hunter too ... all the top selling MH games are mobile. In the West people do not understand the appeal of MH in Japan is mainly the portable aspect. That's what made it a 3-4 million selling franchise there.

Take that away and you are going to kill a large portion of the franchise.

That said, Capcom has already killed Megaman and Street Fighter, Resident Evil looks like it's well on its way to death, so Monster Hunter will just be another one to add to the pile for them.