Kyuu said:
You're not making any sense then. It could very well sell zero copies form now on, and that would still be a big success all things considered lol. |
I'm actually a bit confused by the high digital number. I don't exactly know how to compare. If we assume around 10% digital for MH4, then MHW sold first week pretty much the same as MH4. Which would I count as stable and therefore what to expect more or less and with the explosion of the sales in the west clearly a success.
If we look on physical alone it looks like a shrinking userbase. Which I would still consider fine. It still beats the ridiculous low estimate of 1.5M lifetime which I was initially reacting to.
What I say is, that these low expectations beforehand were lowballing it. You can't estimate one copy and say the game was a success if it sells ten copies. As the next mainline entry a stable userbase is to be expected, a growing userbase is a success, a shrinking one a failure. Because of the digital I'm not entirely sure which category we fall in. In Japan though, worldwide the userbase clearly is growing.
