| Soundwave said: 2.5 million. Then Capcom is going to cry about how they horribly missed their sales targets. The franchise is not magically going to have 3x more fans in the US, the MH game play just isn't that appealling to Western dudebros. Sorry Capcom but you're going to find out the hard way. The Japanese gamers like the game because of portable ad-hoc mode, without that MH has always been just a 700k-1 million seller in Japan (PS2 and Wii, so don't give me the "it has never been on a successful console before" bullshit) and even to hit 1 mill on Wii, MH Tri had to be heavily discounted.
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Capcom is so delusional about all of their franchises. Instead of focusing on making the best games they can in the most efficient way possible, they get obssessed about chasing the Western market as if it is a magical moneybank. The problem is that Capcom is too cheap and lacks the talent to make the type of games that they are seeing sell tens of millions. Capcom is a Japanese company trying to emulate Western games without doing the stuff that Western studios do, like spending many tens of millions on producing the games and advertising them.
For example, they complain about Monster Hunter not gaining success in the West, but in the past they've decided to not publish certain hit Monster Hunter games in the west, like MH3rd on PSP, the PS3 games, and probably now MHXX for Switch/3DS. How are you going to build an audience if you don't publish the games in the West? They think that if they just change the mechanics or simplify the game people will just start buying them as much as they'd buy, say -- Skyrim. That is so naive and sad.
Yet they keep doing the same exact thing, with every one of their franchises and it keeps backfiring. It is really insane, to be honest. And the worst part was that Monster Hunter games were starting to make some gains in the West. MH4U sold 1.31 million outside of Japan. That was impressive. Monster Hunter 5 probably could've done even better, World might if it retains what makes Monster Hunter good. But it isn't going to triple its Western sales or anything. They think that Monster Hunter is an 8 million selling series or something and therefore are never satisfied, what the hell are they smoking?
