Green098 said:
Actually the series did see growth from Tri to 4, doesn't matter if wasn't the overall highest selling game. And it wasn't me who brought up. |
Of course it did. Handheld iterations sell more than console iterations. The game was popularized and designed around playing next to your friends. My point was that the series has been in an overall decline as no entry is going to come close to MHP3 again.
Green098 said:
Sort of-ish but also not really, it depends how you look at it. Due to Monster Hunter 4 not releasing worldwide and with Tri it also included a Wii version in 2009 and a 3DS version in 2011 which is such a big release date difference which was sure to bring in double dippers. If you do add in the Tri and 4 Ultimate versions (which was the first time 4 hit the west in any form) it saw an increase. Anyways Japan numbers only (which is where I was talking about for the decline for Monster Hunter Worlds sales) which is where 4 only released, it still saw an increase, not a decline. EDIT: Never mind my bad it didn't decline in any way. Monster Hunter 4 includes 4 Ultimate, which was just an expansion on the 4th gen game, those too added together make up 7.38 million. While all the Monster Tri series games; Monster Hunter Tri (Wii), Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate (3DS) and Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate (Wii U) make up for a total of 6.35. Even just looking at both base Monster Hunter Tri and 4 versions, 4 has higher sales of 3.44 million than Monster Hunter Tri's 2.22 million |
That's not how any of this works. For sales comparisons, we don't combine their expanded or G versions together.
If that were the case, then Monster Hunter Portable 2 would be the best selling game in the series (2.57m from base game and another 5.48m from 2G).
