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MH4 Lifetime Japan Sales...

Over 6mil 29 30.21%
 
5.5mil-6.0mil 10 10.42%
 
5.0mil-5.5mil 16 16.67%
 
4.5mil-5.0mil 9 9.38%
 
4.0mil-4.5mil 17 17.71%
 
Under 4mil 14 14.58%
 
Total:95
tbone51 on 26 September 2013


With MH4 everybody FW predictions (at least 95% of all of us) thought it would sell 1mil-1.5mil and be impossible to outsell the monstrous MHP3, it broke expectations and is selling close to MHP3 #s despite not being a holiday launch!

Question I ask everybody now that thought it would sell 3.0mil-3.5mil or 3.5mil-4.0mil or maybe higher/lower.... Can MH4 be the best selling MH in the Franchise? (Japan)



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Salnax on 26 September 2013

I think it can replace MH3P as the best selling 3rd party game of all time in Japan.



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tbone51 on 26 September 2013
Salnax said:
I think it can replace MH3P as the best selling 3rd party game of all time in Japan.



its the 10th highest selling game, its going to be knock off anyway by pokemon XY, i hope AC makes it there as well!



Pavolink on 26 September 2013

It will depend on digital sales. We need the numbers.



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DietSoap on 26 September 2013

It's already 392k behind P3rd aligned according to Media Create Sales, which ties into my expectations that this would be the biggest launch in the series, but with weaker legs than P3rd and Unite (though the launch might still take it over Unite in LTD) for a variety of reasons, Pokemon in a month and Nintendo having a vested interest in personally hyping the launch bigger than ever (making things more frontloaded) being the biggest two.

Christmas launch for P3rd aside, I see 3.9 million to 4.3 million Japanese lifetime, and I don't see this one hitting 4 million in 10 weeks like P3rd either.

Digital sales may bring it closer, but really that'll likely be impossible to tell since we don't have digital sale numbers available for Unite and P3rd to compare them to.



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tbone51 on 26 September 2013
DietSoap said:

It's already 392k behind P3rd aligned according to Media Create Sales, which ties into my expectations that this would be the biggest launch in the series, but with weaker legs than P3rd and Unite (though the launch might still take it over Unite in LTD) for a variety of reasons, Pokemon in a month and Nintendo having a vested interest in personally hyping the launch bigger than ever (making things more frontloaded) being the biggest two.

Christmas launch for P3rd aside, I see 3.9 million to 4.3 million Japanese lifetime, and I don't see this one hitting 4 million in 10 weeks like P3rd either.

Digital sales may bring it closer, but really that'll likely be impossible to tell since we don't have digital sale numbers available for Unite and P3rd to compare them to.



add 255k from digital downloads+ cards from the fw (confirmed) the gap is much much smaller, also it doesn't include digital for 2nd week so the gap could be even more less!

DietSoap on 26 September 2013
tbone51 said:
DietSoap said:

It's already 392k behind P3rd aligned according to Media Create Sales, which ties into my expectations that this would be the biggest launch in the series, but with weaker legs than P3rd and Unite (though the launch might still take it over Unite in LTD) for a variety of reasons, Pokemon in a month and Nintendo having a vested interest in personally hyping the launch bigger than ever (making things more frontloaded) being the biggest two.

Christmas launch for P3rd aside, I see 3.9 million to 4.3 million Japanese lifetime, and I don't see this one hitting 4 million in 10 weeks like P3rd either.

Digital sales may bring it closer, but really that'll likely be impossible to tell since we don't have digital sale numbers available for Unite and P3rd to compare them to.


add 255k from digital downloads+ cards from the fw (confirmed) the gap is much much smaller, also it doesn't include digital for 2nd week so the gap could be even more less!

The problem is we don't know the P3rd digital numbers, and while I'm sure digital is bigger today than it was in 2010, I doubt 0 digital copies were sold at launch.



tbone51 on 26 September 2013
DietSoap said:
tbone51 said:
DietSoap said:

It's already 392k behind P3rd aligned according to Media Create Sales, which ties into my expectations that this would be the biggest launch in the series, but with weaker legs than P3rd and Unite (though the launch might still take it over Unite in LTD) for a variety of reasons, Pokemon in a month and Nintendo having a vested interest in personally hyping the launch bigger than ever (making things more frontloaded) being the biggest two.

Christmas launch for P3rd aside, I see 3.9 million to 4.3 million Japanese lifetime, and I don't see this one hitting 4 million in 10 weeks like P3rd either.

Digital sales may bring it closer, but really that'll likely be impossible to tell since we don't have digital sale numbers available for Unite and P3rd to compare them to.


add 255k from digital downloads+ cards from the fw (confirmed) the gap is much much smaller, also it doesn't include digital for 2nd week so the gap could be even more less!

The problem is we don't know the P3rd digital numbers, and while I'm sure digital is bigger today than it was in 2010, I doubt 0 digital copies were sold at launch.



it was 0 lol, it didn't have digital sales intill 6 months after launch. Also Capcom stated i think around 300k digital wen it was released

DietSoap on 26 September 2013
tbone51 said:
DietSoap said:
tbone51 said:
DietSoap said:

It's already 392k behind P3rd aligned according to Media Create Sales, which ties into my expectations that this would be the biggest launch in the series, but with weaker legs than P3rd and Unite (though the launch might still take it over Unite in LTD) for a variety of reasons, Pokemon in a month and Nintendo having a vested interest in personally hyping the launch bigger than ever (making things more frontloaded) being the biggest two.

Christmas launch for P3rd aside, I see 3.9 million to 4.3 million Japanese lifetime, and I don't see this one hitting 4 million in 10 weeks like P3rd either.

Digital sales may bring it closer, but really that'll likely be impossible to tell since we don't have digital sale numbers available for Unite and P3rd to compare them to.


add 255k from digital downloads+ cards from the fw (confirmed) the gap is much much smaller, also it doesn't include digital for 2nd week so the gap could be even more less!

The problem is we don't know the P3rd digital numbers, and while I'm sure digital is bigger today than it was in 2010, I doubt 0 digital copies were sold at launch.


it was 0 lol, it didn't have digital sales intill 6 months after launch. Also Capcom stated i think around 300k digital wen it was released

Could I get a source on both of those? They seem to be talking about ot a month before launch here: http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/38854/t1593100-should-buy-monster-hunter-freedom-unite-wait-3-more-weeks-get-portable-3rd/



tbone51 on 26 September 2013
DietSoap said:
tbone51 said:
DietSoap said:
tbone51 said:
DietSoap said:

It's already 392k behind P3rd aligned according to Media Create Sales, which ties into my expectations that this would be the biggest launch in the series, but with weaker legs than P3rd and Unite (though the launch might still take it over Unite in LTD) for a variety of reasons, Pokemon in a month and Nintendo having a vested interest in personally hyping the launch bigger than ever (making things more frontloaded) being the biggest two.

Christmas launch for P3rd aside, I see 3.9 million to 4.3 million Japanese lifetime, and I don't see this one hitting 4 million in 10 weeks like P3rd either.

Digital sales may bring it closer, but really that'll likely be impossible to tell since we don't have digital sale numbers available for Unite and P3rd to compare them to.


add 255k from digital downloads+ cards from the fw (confirmed) the gap is much much smaller, also it doesn't include digital for 2nd week so the gap could be even more less!

The problem is we don't know the P3rd digital numbers, and while I'm sure digital is bigger today than it was in 2010, I doubt 0 digital copies were sold at launch.


it was 0 lol, it didn't have digital sales intill 6 months after launch. Also Capcom stated i think around 300k digital wen it was released

Could I get a source on both of those? They seem to be talking about ot a month before launch here: http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/38854/t1593100-should-buy-monster-hunter-freedom-unite-wait-3-more-weeks-get-portable-3rd/



http://monsterhunternews.com/2011/07/playstation-store-japan-getting-mhp3rd-digital-version/ remember mhp3 came out dec of 2010, this means the digital version came out over 7 months later