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Wait... does it really matter?
Isn't moneyhatting almost part of being in retail?



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NintendoPie said:
Wait... does it really matter?
Isn't moneyhatting almost part of being in retail?

It depends how it's done really.



Its common sense that Nintendo didnt do it........because its always been Nintendo policy to NOT moneyhat



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I find funny how people think the Vita is the same as the PSP.

Newsflash: It isnt. This whole talk of  how a userbase is beeing left out, really isnt the case. 800k Vita owners are not the same as 3 million + PSP users that bought Monster hunter. Monhun fans moved on to the 3DS, unless they were stuck on their rear end.
Whats beeing said makes sense to the PSP, but not for the Vita. I would find likely for MH3G and MH4 to be released on the PSP aswell in japan. I dont see any sense on them beeing released on the Vita. The market is pathetically small. Heck an HD version of the games for the PS3 would be alot more likely.



^Thank you Nem, that guy that keeps saying the one the 3DS is getting is different from the one the Vita is getting. You would think Sony would have announced Portable 4 to keep the fanbase from shifting lol. He's just in denial and can't except the Vita is a failure point, blank, period.



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sales2099 said:
Its common sense that Nintendo didnt do it........because its always been Nintendo policy to NOT moneyhat

When did they say that?



phenom08 said:
^Thank you Nem, that guy that keeps saying the one the 3DS is getting is different from the one the Vita is getting. You would think Sony would have announced Portable 4 to keep the fanbase from shifting lol. He's just in denial and can't except the Vita is a failure point, blank, period.

SONY can't control CAPCOM's decisions. Also, the PS Vita isn't a failure, it hasn't even had its first holiday period yet, save the obsessive hating for next year.



damn this phenom guy keeps getting banned. WTH?



BlkPaladin said:

The thing is Nintendo doesn't "moneyhat" in the tradition sense of the word. They were burned the last time they spent a lot of money on a third party developer after that they shied away from giving any developer money instead started to lend out its licenses as an exchange for titles. So if they did do something like that we would see other games made by Capcom with Nintendo's license. Also they have been giving real nice incentives in the form of lower fees to make games on their console much like Sony did with the PSX.

For those who don't know the company was Square after Final Fantasy V, Nintendo sunk millions of dollars in the developer and hundreds of man hours to train their developers, they did receive VI and the Super Mario RPG from the exchange but Square midway into developing VI-2 left Nintendo development and went on to make VII for the PSX.


Final Fantasy VI-2? A sequel to FFVI?!



Degausser said:
Monster Hunter 4 is part of the generally console series which appeared on PS2, and then Wii. The fact MH3 was a Wii-exclusive already meant the series was on Nintendo consoles,, 3DS is the natural next console really, as doing a full HD type production on PS3 or Wii-U isn't gonna happen for a Japanese centric franchise.

The Monster Hunter Portable () of which all 3 versions released on the PSP - and the series which skyrocketed it to juggernaut status in Japan imo will remain on Playstation and be a Vita exclusive. It's a few years off and whatever, but the reality is the 3DS MH is a sequel to a Wii game, not a PSP game, and when they make the PSP sequel it'll be on Vita (Albeit exclusivity isn't guarenteed I guess).

The problem is people on here don't actually play or have an interest in the series, so they think the 3DS game is like, the sequel to the PSP one, when it isn't. It's still a big deal though, but not as big as deal as people think.

I doubt very much that we'll see a Monster Hunter for any of the Sony platforms anytime soon. The Vita hasn't even sold over a million in a single territory and by the time the PS4 arrives (even if you don't take into consideration its inevitable higher retail pricepoint) the U will have an installed userbase of anywhere between 10 and 15m assuming that the PS4 is released a year later.

Capcom canned the PS3 exclusive and switched to a Wii exclusive because the PS3 was a complete failure in terms of hardware sales at the time. Christ on a fucking bike, the GBA even outsold it for a few months!!!

I'm personally expecting an announcement from Capcom before the U launches that they're bringing the Monster Hunter franchise to the U. It's a no-brainer. The console is going to fly off shelves over there thanks to Nintendo securing Dragon Quest X, which is the only franchise over there more popular than the Monster Hunter franchise.

Lol, if Nintendo also manage to get an exclusive Final Fantasy title over there for the U then both Sony and Microsoft might as well not bother releasing their next gen consoles over there. ;oP