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Forums - Sony - Will Monster Hunter World be a Mult Million Seller in Japan? (2mil+)

Alkibiádēs on 22 January 2018
KazumaKiryu said:
The facts are like this:
The biggest and most impressive Monster Hunter game ever (previews).
The most beautiful MH graphic of the entire series.
Many new monsters and an incredible numbers of PS4 pre-orders.

One thing is certain: it wants to have the best sales in the series, worldwide. In Japan, two million+ are possible (retail & digital).

You can say that about just any sequel lol.



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Boutros on 22 January 2018
Alkibiádēs said:
KazumaKiryu said:
The facts are like this:
The biggest and most impressive Monster Hunter game ever (previews).
The most beautiful MH graphic of the entire series.
Many new monsters and an incredible numbers of PS4 pre-orders.

One thing is certain: it wants to have the best sales in the series, worldwide. In Japan, two million+ are possible (retail & digital).

You can say that about just any sequel lol.

But Monster Hunter: World is the first time a Monster Hunter game hasn't looked like a PS2 game.



Aura7541 on 22 January 2018

I think it's possible for MHW to hit 2 million with digital. Retail-only? Probably not.



Alkibiádēs on 22 January 2018
Boutros said:
Alkibiádēs said:

You can say that about just any sequel lol.

But Monster Hunter: World is the first time a Monster Hunter game hasn't looked like a PS2 game.

The same would have been true if it was on Switch. In other words, it was going to happen regardless because the 3DS has ran its course.



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Metroid33slayer on 22 January 2018

Being on a non portable system will work against it, don't expect it to reach the success of the 3ds and psp games.



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Azelover on 22 January 2018
Metroid33slayer said:
Being on a non portable system will work against it, don't expect it to reach the success of the 3ds and psp games.

I really also thought that initially..

But, if you take a look at exactly what's been happening, it's gonna be different this time.

I still don't know if worlwide, it will be as big as they wanted. BUT, in Japan..wow. The energy is enormous. It's gonna take a black swan event, to impede the popularity there.



Azelover on 22 January 2018

double post, sorry.



Mnementh on 29 January 2018

Hmm, shipped and digitall 5M worldwide. Should be a success in japan too. I am relieved and this should show the negative nancies here.



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Mnementh on 31 January 2018
Signalstar said:
IMO 1 millions is passable. 1.5 million is a success. Everything after that is gravy. Mmmm...gravy.
Farsala said:
With digital it has a high chance imo, but if sales drop like a rock after FW like some games do then it might not.

1.8m+ would be a pretty good result.

1.35M physical first week, 2 million including digital.

 

Kyuu said:

But to call 3 million in Japan alone "okay" is pretty silly.

And how do you see it now? 3 million should be in the cards, don't you think. With digital it'll blow past that in any case.



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Farsala on 31 January 2018
Mnementh said:
Signalstar said:
IMO 1 millions is passable. 1.5 million is a success. Everything after that is gravy. Mmmm...gravy.
Farsala said:
With digital it has a high chance imo, but if sales drop like a rock after FW like some games do then it might not.

1.8m+ would be a pretty good result.

1.35M physical first week, 2 million including digital.

 

Kyuu said:

But to call 3 million in Japan alone "okay" is pretty silly.

And how do you see it now? 3 million should be in the cards, don't you think. With digital it'll blow past that in any case.

Already explaining away in the other thread. 2m with digital is currently unofficial.