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sc94597 on 23 January 2018
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JRPGfan said:
Medisti said:
Breaking 5 million is a tall order, but it's possible, especially since it's a multiplat. That said, I don't think it will get that high. 2-3 million is my estimate.

Hirokazu Hamamura, President of Enterbrain, the publisher of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, believes it "could" do 10m lifetime sales.

 

"Hamamura-san predicted that the new entry in the celebrated Monster Hunter series has enough clout to give sales of PlayStation hardware a big boost on the console's home turf. He says that there are many players who have been waiting for a new home console Monster Hunter game, and we all know how popular the franchise is in Japan.

He also says the game itself has the potential to sell 10 million copies during its lifetime, citing the volume of players who enjoyed the beta tests, and its sheer popularity in the Land of the Rising Sun. Pre-orders for the title are apparently way above expectations, too."

So he is predicting a level of success on the order of games like Uncharted 4, Destiny, etc and well beyond peer-titles like Dark Souls?  

Yeah that's not delusional.... 

His prediction is based on many speculative "if's": if it "gives sales of PlayStation hardware a big boost on the console's home turf", and if "many players [in Japan] have been waiting for a new home console Monster Hunter game." 

Yet, the COMG will likely end with less than half the points of the last mainline Monster Hunter title (1600+ for MHW vs. 3872 for MH4.) So it doesn't look like these assumptions are holding.