Monster Hunter Portable 3rd to get a U.S. release,finally,on the PSVITA!? - Page 2

I'm sceptical. Why do they still call it Portable rather than the US variant; Freedom?

Also, why no mention by Capcom earlier?

I'd love a new instalment.

*bleep* YEAH !!!!

I hope so man, I dunno how people would react to yet another Portable 3^rd/Tri copy.
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I hope the information in that information is true because I can't wait to get a MH game for the Vita, that would just be amazing. Such an amazing series, the Vita needs it if it wants good sales in Japan.

It's bizarre, right? I mean, Monster Hunter is actually popular in the Western world, and it being on the Vita platform would allay any reasonable fears of piracy that Capcom would have.

I wonder, would they change the controls so the second analogue stick is a true free camera? Instead of the Y-Axis just changing the camera height in leaps, it could rotate properly. Maybe even some touch-screen based minigames and such.

I'd pick up a copy if it showed up, there might even be an infrastructure mode for once. Adhoc Party can only take you so far.... Even if it didn't have Infrastructure, everybody'd play it on Adhoc Party anyway and Capcom would still win.
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SGD it's not as popular on this side as it is in Japan.Portable 3rd sold millions in Japan, if it was localized I doubt it would even get over a million, even if you combined the rest of the world's sales into it.

But that's still a decent sized figure to warrant a release for everywhere else right?

The thing is just the difference between the amount of psp's in each region (in this case japan and the rest of the world)and the number of MH games sold.

There are more psp's in the rest of the world than there are in Japan (couldn't find seperated sales statistics but in total more than 70 million psp's were sold). If you take into account that in Japan there are less psp's than in the rest of the world, but Monster hunter still sold about four times more in Japan than in the rest of the world, you could conclude that Monster hunter really isn't all that popular in the rest of the world. There is a fanbase offcourse and they are very fond of the game but the base is just too small.

I think that Capcom said that since MHF 2 (probably since ever, but MHF wasn't really promoted where I live) sales have been really disappointing in the west and always much less than in Japan itself.

Think about the costs that come with bringing those products worldwide. If the sales of that product in the entire world don't even come close to the amount of sales in one country, I would also be less inclined to keep internationalizing that product.

I don't know how much profit they make (if any profit) on the MH games that are released to the west and yes people can say "well is profit all that matters?" etc... but it's not the first time they tried it and if they wouldn't make profit of it, it's really not the best strategic move to take from a businessman's point of view.

I know it sucks but I hope this time for the Vita it'll be at least different, if anything they could just translate the japanese version and make that available on the PS online store so ppl could download it, that would result in much fewer costs for them.