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Forums - Sales Discussion - Monster Hunter World Ships 5mil!

Mnementh on 29 January 2018
Hiku said:
Mnementh said:

Yeah. Capcom would be fools if they invest that much but expect low sales. Sales on the level of previous entries was the lower bound of useful expectations. I felt at first like it would sell low, but realized my error in thought.

Well there are other ways to have games be profitable these days aside from the initial purchase transaction. Microstransactions can transcend the former. And the fact that PS4/XBO games retail at $60 instead of 3DS $40 are factors to consider for the first few months of shipments, as well as the lower costs of manufacturing discs vs cartridges, etc. But the fact that it sold so well week 1 is just a major plus to all of that.

vivster said:
I wonder if there is a chance that Capcom completely overshipped.

I expect 4,999,999 copies to sit on shelves until the price drops to $19.

Mnementh said:

Hiku is a salty Switch-fan and Ryng_Tolu a big Nintendo hater then?

Well to be honest that post was a bit sarcastic with the intent of having people @ing me, but no one did.
Though there was some truth to it in that this was what I expected the game to do at worst, which I went over in a previous thread.

Has MonHun World Microtransactions or paid DLC? I'm not aware of any of that, but maybe I missed that news.

Oh, and I didn't realize your post was sarcastic, sorry. My general feeling was that Nintendo- and Sony-fans alike lowballed the expectations, your post was just the first I stumbled upon as proof.

Also I have no idea what @ing means.



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Poweranimals on 29 January 2018
JRPGfan said:
oniyide said:
The year is starting off right! It's a good game, having more fun with it than I thought I would

Digital Foundry is calling "Shadow of the Colossus" (ps4) the Greatest Console Remake Ever!

So yeah 2018 is off to a great start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMkcZ6z1Ww

Not if you're a Switch owner.



pxrocks on 29 January 2018

Well deserved.a game like MH should be played on big screen not on a faded tiny screen.



tbone51 on 29 January 2018
Poweranimals said:
JRPGfan said:

Digital Foundry is calling "Shadow of the Colossus" (ps4) the Greatest Console Remake Ever!

So yeah 2018 is off to a great start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faMkcZ6z1Ww

Not if you're a Switch owner.

We have Bayonetta 1+2 so off to a great start indeed



Poweranimals on 29 January 2018
tbone51 said:
Poweranimals said:

Not if you're a Switch owner.

We have Bayonetta 1+2 so off to a great start indeed

 I'm not a Bayonetta fan but even if I was I'd already have it on the Wii U. 



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DonFerrari on 29 January 2018
Poweranimals said:
tbone51 said:

We have Bayonetta 1+2 so off to a great start indeed

 I'm not a Bayonetta fan but even if I was I'd already have it on the Wii U. 

Do you think Switch will have a bad year? I have no reason to think it will.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

vivster on 29 January 2018
Mnementh said:
vivster said:

Supply issues can arise if you ship 4 of that 5M to Uganda.

So, you think that's what happened?

Just an example. Could've just as easily been Zimbabwe.



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tbone51 on 29 January 2018
Poweranimals said:
tbone51 said:

We have Bayonetta 1+2 so off to a great start indeed

 I'm not a Bayonetta fan but even if I was I'd already have it on the Wii U. 

We have KIRBY!



Dr.Vita on 29 January 2018

It was the perfect move from Capcom to put this game on the right consoles!!!
LMAO at all the people who thought that Monster Hunter would be dead on consoles that are not Nintendo handhelds... XD




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Poweranimals on 29 January 2018
DonFerrari said:
Poweranimals said:

 I'm not a Bayonetta fan but even if I was I'd already have it on the Wii U. 

Do you think Switch will have a bad year? I have no reason to think it will.

I hope not but so far it's starting to look that way. I'm looking forward to Yoshi. That's really about it. I'll probably buy Mario Tennis but I can't imagine getting too excited for that. 

tbone51 said: 
Poweranimals said: 

 I'm not a Bayonetta fan but even if I was I'd already have it on the Wii U. 

We have KIRBY!

That's out?