Let's hope so *keeping fingers crossed*.

Monster Hunter G is going to be coming out soon, and I can't wait to see how it sells. Will have to see how well it stacks up versus the PSP versions.

Don't you mean PS2 version?

Let's wait for Monster Hunter 3 to see how it stacks up versus the PSP games.

No. Monster Hunter Freedom is, more or less, a port of Monster Hunter G to the PSP.

So essentially, it's a valid comparison.

Sure, let's compare an old PS2 port to the massively popular PSP version. They should sell about equally, don't you think?

Nope. I think they'll somewhere in between. I would hope that MHG can at least sell 400k. 500k+ would show that its the series that is growing rather than it just being better on the PSP than on consoles.

And note, the original MHF didn't sell that much. Just over 1 million I think.

Again, let's wait for Monster Hunter 3 before making such statements. I know you want to have things decided as fast as possible, we all do, but a little patience goes a long way.

Why wouldn't MHG be a good indicator? I think MH3 would have to do much more than double that number.

Because everyone had every chance to play the game already. It isn't a new game, it's a port of an old game.

You can't port Doom 1 to the PS3 and say "hmm, it didn't sell 500k, looks like Doom doesn't have a good future on the PS3". You'll have to wait for the new Doom to arrive to be able to say something meaningful about the fanbase of Doom on the system.

I'd actually compare the first Monster Hunter on each console for an accurate representation.

PSP didn't have a problem shifting a good amount of units of the first MH even though it was the first game on the platform. So MHG Wii should be able to shift a lot of units even though it is the first game of the series on the platform. That's a perfectly valid comparison. I'm probably going to find the installed bases of each of the systems at launch, and first week sales in order to compare all three, but yeah, I'm not waiting to MH3 to compare to MHF and MH on PS2. It makes no sense to compare MH3 when there is nothing to compare it too.

It'd be unfair to compare MH3 to MHF because it'd be the second game on the platform, and userbase may have grown. It's fair to compare MH3 to MHP2 (not 2G) because it's the second on the PSP.

It's going to be nice to see if the crowd translates over to the Wii to play, or if the PSP version sells better. AFAIK the PSP ones aren't pay-to-play online, and they offer ad-hoc play with anyone else who has the game, while the console version doesn't... But we shall see...