I am sure I will repost this in an hour, but a few thoughts on RISEGATE:
1- As Chris has posted, the typical opening for MH has been around 2M. Flat out. There is clearly a ceiling (but oh what a ceiling!)
2- World did incredibly/amazingly well first week and actually opened on par with previous games. (and to reiterate for literally the 30th time...you don't get much more wrong on something than I did on World). It did not show good legs though, which is where I would expect Rise to do much better.
3-Unless you're tbone, expecting anything more than a maximum of 2.2-2.3M FW was never realistic. So a 2M debut is...right in line with that. Was it undershipped? Sure. But its not like Capcom is waiting a month for restocks.
4-You can look at it the Oregano way..."OMG IT SOLD THE SAME AMOUNT AS WORLD IN JAPAN..THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE GREENLIT THIS GAME"..or, you can look at the worldwide shipment numbers and realize that a 50/50 split between Japan and the rest of the world, while still not as good as World, is still a massive improvement over PSP/3DS games and a very good sign.
1- As Chris has posted, the typical opening for MH has been around 2M. Flat out. There is clearly a ceiling (but oh what a ceiling!)
2- World did incredibly/amazingly well first week and actually opened on par with previous games. (and to reiterate for literally the 30th time...you don't get much more wrong on something than I did on World). It did not show good legs though, which is where I would expect Rise to do much better.
3-Unless you're tbone, expecting anything more than a maximum of 2.2-2.3M FW was never realistic. So a 2M debut is...right in line with that. Was it undershipped? Sure. But its not like Capcom is waiting a month for restocks.
4-You can look at it the Oregano way..."OMG IT SOLD THE SAME AMOUNT AS WORLD IN JAPAN..THEY NEVER SHOULD HAVE GREENLIT THIS GAME"..or, you can look at the worldwide shipment numbers and realize that a 50/50 split between Japan and the rest of the world, while still not as good as World, is still a massive improvement over PSP/3DS games and a very good sign.