Wrong.
Are those figures console only? Because on Steam alone DS1 sold 3m, DS2 sold 2.5m and DS3 sold 2m.
Why do they need the mobile market exactly? Would you call any company that doesn't do mobile games "doomed"?
And if they don't step up as demanded by the investors, their equity value will be punished for it. No choice but to play along with the market, I think.
This is a point that I see brought up a lot, but I'm not sure how realistic a goal this is when the Monster Hunter fan base in the US has only grown and grown, leading me to believe that the only people that care about the QOL improvements are already fans of the series. How many people do you really think have been put off by the series are going to come back because you have a tracker for materials or can access an in-game Wiki for damage zones?
What? The other threads came off more like "fuck we gotta scramble to put out more games" than "we ain't gonna bother with Switch"
But that's my point: what "crowd" have they lost in the first place? MH1 sold so poorly in the west that they didn't localize the second game, and from what we saw in the past for NPD numbers back when our cups were runneth over, the sales of the PSP titles weren't remarkably better than that. Even if you stick to just Nintendo hardware, the series has only grown and grown with each entry. Who have they really lost that they need to bring back?
Why wouldn't I? It's outdated as all hell now, but back then, the only point of comparison it had was PSO and had the market all to itself as far as the west and the PS2 was concerned, as PSU wasn't even a glimmer in someone's eye at that point. Capcom even went as far as giving the western release more content than the original Japanese release, including the dual blades. It's not like they didn't make a serious effort to try to appeal to the mainstream even back then.
I find it a little funny since atm it's essentially just history repeating itself. There was the same sort of talk when MH went from PSP to 3DS
Given there are going to be ~80m PS4s sold in by the end of March that seems a little bit silly. There's a lot of room for Japanese pubs to succeed on PS4 and Switch, in fact that should become the standard release strategy going forwards. I think a lot of publishers were caught unawares by the success of the Switch. You can't blame them after the Wii U and the Switch was a similar enough concept to make them wary, western publishers certainly took the same attitude.
They're not giving a target for MHW. The wagons are already circling.
5m would still be a decline from Gen 4 which debuted with 5.6m globally (4.1m MH4 Japan + 1.5m MH4U west).
But they have been doing fine so far and I don't think it's fair to call their games failures just because they don't reach their forcasts, underperform? Yes, but as I've said in the other thread, they always aim for the sky with their forcasts, they should try to be reasonable with them.
You think the PS4 is going to barely outsell the PS3 when all is said and done?
At the end of the day, the seamless zones, larger lobbies and better interactions between multiple monsters are window dressing for the gameplay flow, which remains unchanged on a fundamental level. All the QOL changes in the world will mean jack shit if they can't hook people with that, and that can't be denied.
If someone doesn't want to keep running the same monster multiple times to get what they need for their next set, what feature is going to overcome that objection? That's the game right there.
how did you get scammed? We knew months before release how the game would be.
You're looking at the WW sales of Japanese software right? Because in that case I wholeheartedly agree with you.
Well you have to look at the WW picture, anyone who doesn't is excluding 90% of the market. In Japan the story is different, but Japanese publishers who only look at the Japanese market are probably investing in mobile more than anything else, dedicated consoles are facing an increasingly tough uphill battle. The reason Capcom have gone down the route they have with MHW is that they can't take a massive punt on the Japanese market and completely ignore RoW consumers. It's a gamble, but probably about the same as betting on Japan alone is as well.
