Well hopefully with the success the Switch is having lately, Capcom will reconsider and wisen up! They would be fools not to do so.
It is a port of MHXX which only released in Japan. It is not a port of MH4U which came in the West.
MHXX is an expanded version of Monster Hunter Generations, which came out in the West on 3DS
He is comparing switch to xb1 in which case x1 has higher install base
Yet, outside of MHW, Capcom still releases their XB1 games in Japan.
he's surprised the gap isn't bigger.
Eh... Define "really well"
I actually agree, I would just drop the /s...
Capcom mainly went to Sony to get SFV out sooner. Now that Capcom is in a much better place financially & cross-play is fair game, I don't see why SFVI wouldn't be PS5/Scarlett/PC.
Ultra Street Figher and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 all sold 500k in a few months. Capcom mentionned that the Street Fighter Collection sold well too.
Yeh generally - as in looking at all the third party fighting games released on the system - I'd say they did well, not "really well".
For that, they would need to release day and date. Frankly USFII had no right to sell that well.
I ain't removing the /s because you can't ignore that TW3 running on Switch hardware isn't exactly buttery smooth. It's miracle work.
TW3 running on Switch may not be buttery smooth, but my reasoning for removing the /s is that Witcher 3 was far more difficult to port than whatever Capcom had (had they wanted to).
Two out three of those are on Gamepass.
Fair enough. I can't argue with that. The Witcher 3 is a huge ass open world game that even runs iffy at times on base ps4.
Yeah I don't know what on earth Capcom is thinking. I honestly can't imagine looking at this data and not thinking something is fundamentally wrong with their strategy here. What even do they release physically on the switch during this period. The results are absurd.
They didn't get on the gamepass day 1 though? The fan base just doesn't like to buy these games it seems.
Well I think Capcom will wisen up eventually. The Switch is still selling like hotcakes.
These sales numbers are up to March 31st 2019, when no game pass announcement had been made yet (unless I missed it when looking it up) for either game.
non of those were day 1(month 1 or month 3 even) on gamepass where most of the sales come from. xbox install base are mainly not interested in Japanese made games that much
Well based speculation you mean. It's just based on the sales data we have:
Capcom said:
No, I'm referring to MHW's second fiscal year.
You're suggesting that the game sold close to 0 in over a year on 2 platforms, does that seriously sound reasonable to you? Nothing in the data above helps with that.
I'd hardly say 1.95M is scraps. They get way more than reasonably should be expected from the limited retail effort they put in.
Unless I misinterpreted, your argument is that Capcom just didn't release it on XB1 since it wouldn't be worth the effort. And while you'd probably be correct in any other instance, Capcom's support of the system in Japan for other games lends more credence towards Sony having a deal in place for exclusivity in Asia.
What I mean is that the difference in global installed base can help explain the figures we see.
That's assuming they can keep this up when even the Japanese market is becoming less responsive to these ports. If that's also true worldwide they're collectively turning off a revenue source from their output.
Obviously it has sold more than 0 in this timeframe but sales are undoubtedly low. The only region we have granular data for is Japan but it only sold around 73k there on PS4/XBO after global PC launch.
