Famitsu Sales: W50, 2019 (Dec 09 - Dec 15)

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outlawauron said:

Slownenberg said:

So true. What are the monster franchises outside of Nintendo first party? Monster Hunter and Dragon Quest?

While Nintendo-only monster franchises in Japan are: Splatoon, Mario Kart, Smash, Pokemon, and Animal Crossing. And maybe Mario as well.

And with Dragon Quest finally hitting the Switch and I can only assume being developed with Nintendo's systems first in mind from here on out, the only mega japanese selling franchise they are missing is Monster Hunter. It'll be interesting to see if Switch starts being the target for Monster Hunter or if Capcom sticks with wanting to sacrifice sales to make the most powerful game they can make.

How exactly would Capcom be sacrificing sales whenever their first PS4 Monster Hunter destroyed every sales record that the company has? Seems like continuing their current strategy would be the most logical option lol.

Dragon Quest XI also did very well on PS4 too. I don't doubt that the next DQ will also be multiplatform, but PS4 was much more successfully on software front in Japan than the PS3.

While I agree that building on World's success on Playstation is a no brainer, I don't think it makes logical sense for them not to also take advantage of Switch by tapping into that base as well. Ideal scenario from here on would be to move the World team onto World 2 for PS5 (they're probably already working on it) while getting the Generations team to whip up a new Switch MH. Best of both worlds.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 24 December 2019