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Chrizum on 22 March 2011
DavidValbu said:
Chrizum said:

Isn't Monster Hunter 3G coming to the Wii? It's inevitable, right?


I am afraid it's gonna be a 3DS conversion... not Wii now.

I don't mean the Portable series, just the regular console series. Like Monster Hunter 1G on PS2 (and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G on PSP which is the Portable line).



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zgamer5 on 23 March 2011
irstupid said:
zgamer5 said:
Soriku said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
z101 said:

MH3 for PS3 has been canceled because of the high production costs. These have not changed.

Perhaps MH4 will go to Wii again, but most likely to the 3DS or both.


so then why did they bother making resident evil, lost planet, street fighter and all the other games they made for ps3?

none of them performed as well as monster hunter on ps3 would have.

infact lemme check the stats on MH psp, i think even that outsold capcoms ps3 games....

EDIT: monster hunter unite japan WW = 4.1 million.

thats more than street fighter super street fighter IV ps3 world wide (they come to 2.91)

thats more than resident evil 5 ps3 world wide (3.84 million)

thats more than lost planet 1& 2 on both xbox and ps3 (3.6m)

 

so even if development costs were high, it would have more than paid off and would have been one of the few ps3 games to pass 5m units. and when they say high im sure they dont mean as high as gran turismo or MGS4 because it doesnt require that level of R&D and technology....they wouldnt even have to market it, 1 youtube video would be good enough.


lol MH3 wouldn't have sold 5 mil on the PS3. MHFU sold as much as it did because it's a handheld MH.  Look at how MH3 on the Wii sold, that gives a better picture.

Also lol at one Youtube vid...with MH3 they wanted the series to be more popular over here. They advertised MH3 and it sold almost 800k in US/EU. Would've sold much less with crappy marketing.

Also is there any reason why people are saying PS3 when MH3 sold well? Assuming the game comes out this gen. In Japan the Wii still has no problem selling larger titles, and the connectivity factor isn't a big deal since the Wii can connect to the 3DS, if the 3DS got MHP4. Connectivity hasn't been important to the series anyway. So what's the reason?

look at jrpgs they sell better on the ps3. their are countless examples. i do think that mh3 would have sold better on ps3. also it would have sold better in the west on ps3. that is if it got good reviews. and with an easier online system it would have been very fun.

yes its not going to do 5 million. but it could do 3 if not more. unite didnt do bad on psp considering its one of the most pirated consoles of all time. second to the ps2.

when it comes to mh4 i want them on ps3/ps4 and the portable version on ngp because thats where i want to play them.(even though il be having a 3ds)

best look at all home console versions of monster hunter.

if i recal monster hunter tri sold the best out of all the home console monster hunters, and the prior ones were all one the PS2.

so no basis to say that it would have sold better on ps3.  historical data would suggest otherwise.

don't get why people can't distinguish between teh two versions.  when talking about zelda sales on consoles we ONLY bring up console sales if its a console game or handheld sales if its a handheld.  comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges.


yes because when mh released on ps2 it was very popular. its not like mh on wii released at the height of mhs popularity.



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jarrod on 23 March 2011
zgamer5 said:


yes because when mh released on ps2 it was very popular. its not like mh on wii released at the height of mhs popularity.

MH was pretty popular on PS2.  That's why MH2 sold 600k in Japan on it, which also came out after the series had moved to PSP and started really taking off.

Now, the series had obviously grown by the time MH3 came out, but it's not like sales remained flat on Wii either, they grew substantially as well (from 600k to 1m).  Plus, the ancient barebones port of MHG on Wii sold exactly the same as it did when it was originally new on PS2 (about 250k), which is something that I don't has ever happened in Japan.

The thing to really remember with MH3 sales though, is to keep in mind that this is fundamentally a multiplayer game, but also a game which required a $15 monthly subscription to even have multiplayer.  And it still sold a million units, far outsurpassing any other subscription based game in Japan ever (even PC games).  FFXI only did about a quarter of that in Japan on PS2 (and MH2 outsold that game too actually).  Nothing else subscription based though (Biohazard Outbreak, PSO/U, FFXI, Nobunga Online, Mingol Online, MH1-2/Frontier, etc, etc) has even come close.  Even XBL Gold in Japan probably hasn't hit a million subscribers.



fps_d0minat0r on 27 March 2011
Soriku said:
fps_d0minat0r said:


your assuming theres no difference between the games ps3 users like and the games wii users like.

how many complex games do you see on wii compared to ps3?

the target market for monster hunter simply isnt on nintendo systems so even though theres less ps3's theres more people that would buy monster hunter on ps3.

as for connectivity, co-op is much more important than SP in MH. people only play SP to practise and gather items and stuff but co-op is where the real fun is and it will sell a lot of 3g NGP's if monster hunter is a lunch title (maybe its the existing psp one, not a new one)

The target market for MH isn't on Nintendo consoles, yet MH3 sold very well (even Capcom agrees) and is the best selling console MH? I don't follow.


yes because monster hunter ps3 has sold 0 because its not released!!!! the ps2 versions didnt sell well because it was still fairly new. wii only benefited off the popularity of the psp monster hunters. having load screens on a home system was still a disappointment and it wasnt the huge improvement fans were hoping for.

and 1.83m units is poor considering how other games on wii sell and the large install base it has.

monster hunter ps3 would probably do 1.83m in japan alone because more sony fans like monster hunter than wii fans. all wii fans care about is mario and zelda, as they have done for the past few decades. their used to right button and jump button....they dont know how to use fully manual attacks and chain combo's and evade attacks and memorise a list of attacks each monster does.



DavidValbu on 28 March 2011
fps_d0minat0r said:
Soriku said:
fps_d0minat0r said:


your assuming theres no difference between the games ps3 users like and the games wii users like.

how many complex games do you see on wii compared to ps3?

the target market for monster hunter simply isnt on nintendo systems so even though theres less ps3's theres more people that would buy monster hunter on ps3.

as for connectivity, co-op is much more important than SP in MH. people only play SP to practise and gather items and stuff but co-op is where the real fun is and it will sell a lot of 3g NGP's if monster hunter is a lunch title (maybe its the existing psp one, not a new one)

The target market for MH isn't on Nintendo consoles, yet MH3 sold very well (even Capcom agrees) and is the best selling console MH? I don't follow.


yes because monster hunter ps3 has sold 0 because its not released!!!! the ps2 versions didnt sell well because it was still fairly new. wii only benefited off the popularity of the psp monster hunters. having load screens on a home system was still a disappointment and it wasnt the huge improvement fans were hoping for.

and 1.83m units is poor considering how other games on wii sell and the large install base it has.

monster hunter ps3 would probably do 1.83m in japan alone because more sony fans like monster hunter than wii fans. all wii fans care about is mario and zelda, as they have done for the past few decades. their used to right button and jump button....they dont know how to use fully manual attacks and chain combo's and evade attacks and memorise a list of attacks each monster does.

Ey man, Monster Hunter Tri is the second best seller 3rd party game in Japan this generation in homeconsoles, did you know it? Outside of Japan, it has never been so popular...NEVER. Even PSP versions.