Soundwave said:
outlawauron said:
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.
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Capcom better get used to lower sales for the MH franchise in general. MHW on PS4 is doing 1.5 mill tops if they're lucky in Japan ... a far, far, far cry from the days of doing 4+ million on the PSP and 3DS.
Monster Hunter 5 on Switch is going to have to happen, the whole reason the franchise is so big in Japan to begin with is because the portability allowed kids/teenagers to play together during school breaks on the go, that's why it's never been nearly as big locked to a home console.
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Outlaw isnt arguing anything outside of MHXX its just this gamr we are talking about.
That said i think MHW can actually pull off 1.5mil+ in japan. Especially its exclusive and it has no other MH announced atm
