tbone51 said:
What were expectations for the game? Is it really bad considering its in a console first 6-7months of launch, and importantly its a game thats a port of a port of a spin off entry that was stealth announced after 3ds version was released. On top of that released not that far after and on top of a new mainlinr MH game announced?
Yeah flop for who? Its a quick cashgrab that capcom makes a nice profit for. Its not as bad as people make it. Its disappointing considering the brand name sure no doubt but again its not as bad as a "flop"
Flop/bomba are used too loosely in sales forums. This is another case of it |
Most expectations for when it was announced was ~200-250k FW, and only that low because of the series fatigue. How long the Switch has been out is irrelevant because it's a very popular console and in extremely high demand in Japan. A Monster Hunter title with a nice bundle should have done 6 figures. The game barely sold through half of its shipment FW, and I don't see how you can call it anything other than a flop at this point. Maybe it'll do well as the Switch continues to sell (wouldn't surprise me), but at the moment, it's absolutely a flop. I don't think it means that a MH World Portable wouldn't do well on Switch, but this still sold worse than anyone expected.
For a series like Monster Hunter, you have different standards for what you expect these later versions to do. I don't see how it can be spinned into anything else. I think the only reason why expectations were tempered so much is because we knew that it was doing horribly from COMG and other preorder numbers.
