Monster Hunter 2 did nothing for long term PSP sales in Japan.

[kingofwale]

Gnizmo said:

kingofwale said:

It's fine to praise someone when the credit is due, but yet your diagram is one dimensional and does not reveal way too many factors.

How many of the sales are due to High seller games, redesign, consumer confidence?? And how many of the sales are lost due to lost of exclusives? weaken economy? demographical movement?

And frankly, how can any of those being tracked?

I can start a thread stating GTAIV has permantly boosted Wii's number and that could be 'viewed' as truth, as my data (as well as yours) are so very limited.

Your conclusion based on purely weekly sales chart is by no mean "conclusive" by any means.

 

 

 

Weakened economy is addressed above. The video game market seems to thrive regardless of the economic state of the country. The high seller games are clearly demonstrated with the weekly sales analysis. The exact same thing happens everytime. There is a spike followed by a taperign off until it returns to normal sales. The fact is the sales of the PSP were stable at 60k a week for months before the second Monster Hunter game was released on the platform. Are you seriously arguing that the sales of the PSP would have gone down but Monster Hunter magically managed to sustain them at the exact same rate as they were before?

Oh, absolutely, you can't prove against it either, since there's no way you can distinguish between "redesign sales boost" with "prolong software boost"

I can quote Halo 3 effect. which thrust xbox into a new hardware high, and the effect can even be felt (arguable) even today. And why I put Halo 3 in the same sentence as MH??? Because if you can name another game from PSP that is still selling top 20 after 14 weeks. Let me know.

Base on that, MH is doing to PSP what Halo did to 360.