Chris Buffa (Modojo): Earlier this month, Capcom made the bold decision to bring Monster Hunter 4 to Nintendo's 3DS instead of Sony's PlayStation Vita. This, despite the company's success on PSP, with well over ten million portable Monster Hunter games sold.
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate has been discounted to $16.33 on 3DS and $19.79 on Wii U. Also on sale are Monster Hunter 4 ($28.99) as well as the upcoming Monster Hunter Generations ($31.99 for Amazon Prime members).
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Monster Hunter X sold 1,542,104 units within its first two days of sale in Japan, according to a Famitsu report. The number includes retail copies, download cards, and the Monster Hunter X Special Pack. (It does not, however, include sales of the download version through the eShop.)
Additionally, 3DS hardware (including 3DS LL, New 3DS, and New 3DS LL) moved a total 133,628 units, compared to the previous week’s 33,203 units.
Here’s Monster Hunter X‘s launch numbers compared to previous big 3DS titles:
(Note: These are all according to Famitsu sales numbers.)
Pokemon X and Y – 2,096,050
Monster Hunter 4 – 1,875,115
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – 1,617,949
Monster Hunter X – 1,542,104
When Monster Hunter gets made for a non-Nintendo console I'll be more interested. I'd be much happier with a PS4/Xbone version with fully integrated online play.
they are going to who ever gives them the most money and that was nintendo paying
Even though I enjoyed playing monster hunter on the psp.
Sony does not need a MH to succeed with the vita!
Sony just need to cater each market, though monster hunter would make that easy for them in japan. I feel all they really need is a good variety of rpgs and other types of games.
Then out in the west, just have a good portion of action games,sports and shooters and they should be fine.
Europe seems attracted to racing games and puzzle games among other types.
So again all they really need is to simply cater to each market and they will be fine with or without monster hunter.
I fully agree, Sony was successful with PS1 and PS2 without the help of MH, even if PSP never had MH, PSP still have a good library of games, besides MH is only great for japanese gamers.
And it's not like Vita will not be getting games like MH, Vita will already be having Ragnarok Odyssey and The game from Square.
Crapcom is going the same stupid route Bamco did with Tales of Vesperia and Tales of Graces by putting Monster Hunter on 3DS.
If they think for 1 second that the MH fans is gonna leave their comfort zone which is the PSP and go buy a 3DS and it's horrible excuse for a 2nd analog stick of a contraption which does not even comes with the MH game. They're terribly wrong. They'll be in for a nightmarish awakening when they see their game flop and is being widely ignored by the casual dominant demographic of the 3DS.