| IcaroRibeiro said:
The facts is: Non PS4 Monster Hunter World sold over 7 million If it was a PS4-only game it would sell a bit over 8.5 million copies Meaning all Capcom's effort would be useless if they choose to make it exclusive for whatever reason you may think Remove a platform and the sales are halved unless people start buying a system to play a specific game which is NOT the case for a niche franchise like Dragon Quest is in West. Why is so much denial about benefits of being multiplatform is beyond me |
Rise alone will possibly outsell both the PS4 and X1 versions of World combined highlighting the number of platforms released isn't necessarily what leads to higher mainstream success, the combined total of X1 and PS4 units is over 160m double that of the Switch at the moment. Rise is selling like it is because of the effort put into even on one platform alone it is looking to sell a comparable amount to that of a game on three platforms this alone shows it is simply not down to the metrics you say.
It sold 7m on PC because they put effort into selling it on the platform not because a version exists otherwise Frontier would have sold 7m long before it I would bet a good number of sales are also people who double dipped.
DQXI is on 5 platforms and hit 6.5m with not only differing costs of each version but the break down of each platform is nothing to write home about as each version has to justify the cost of existing and ultimately most of the sales are still in Japan where a Switch version of DQXII alone will likely outsell all the versions of DQXI in the region combined. No one is saying a PS5 or PC version can't be made but such a version will not magically pull a MH like you think because that requires the same type of effort from SE and even DQ would have to be a completely different type of game to find mainstream success.
It's more likely DQXII will have a PS4 version than PS5 at the moment and tbh it's likely to be a Switch game ported up after all they simply ported over DQXI:DE from Switch with no changes to other platforms.
Last edited by Wyrdness - on 01 June 2021
