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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
DietSoap on 26 September 2013
tbone51 said:
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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

Interesting, I wonder when digital day one became the norm.



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tbone51 on 26 September 2013
DietSoap said:
tbone51 said:
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

Interesting, I wonder when digital day one became the norm.



its crazy, not sure if you kno but mh4 is suffering from retail supply, capcom next shippment isn't intill the 29th! This means 4th week might be higher than 3rd week! Even 3ds has supply issues apparently!

ListerOfSmeg on 26 September 2013

Wow that is crazy. Don't get me wrong I enjoyed playing MH U so I can see the appeal but didn't think it was going to be that big of a game.
I wonder what it would have done for Wii U or Vita in Japan.



noname2200 on 26 September 2013

No, because it's on the wrong system. Sorry.



kitler53 on 26 September 2013

given the current data it seems very likely to be the best selling MH game in the franchise.



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F0X on 27 September 2013

Can it be? Yes.
Will it be? I'd say so. I expect *ahem* a monstrous holiday season.



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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 27 September 2013

I never understood why people like Monster Hunter... Than again, I can never understand Japan in General... Perhaps thats why I love them so much, they always do the unexpected



                  

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Dr.EisDrachenJaeger on 27 September 2013

MH4 had the highest series debut with 4 million less of an install base, 2 days vs 5 days with MP3rd and in September vs Holiday peak for P3rd. This game will be the best selling MH at 5.5 mil lifetime in Japan.

Why?

Gaist Crusher, gonna get dem kiddies playing MH



sethnintendo on 27 September 2013
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

I never understood why people like Monster Hunter... Than again, I can never understand Japan in General... Perhaps thats why I love them so much, they always do the unexpected


Have you ever played MH?



sethnintendo on 27 September 2013
noname2200 said:
No, because it's on the wrong system. Sorry.

Just think... If it was on the Vita it would have increased total systems sold by over 50%.