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Soundwave on 31 August 2017
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tbone51 said:
Soundwave said:

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. 

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

Console only MH's are not the same thing as the portable ones. Even on the PS2 and Wii ... two consoles that were far more successful than the PS4 in Japan, no console MH sold much more than a million. And if memory serves, even MH Tri on Wii had to be heavily discounted to hit 1 million. 

It's a portable centric franchise there ... that's the whole part of the appeal is being able to play locally alongside your buddies in Japan, that's how it took off (much like Pokemon and the public trading of monsters). Take out the portability and you basically cut the balls off the franchise.