I mean, Capcom literally post a new MHW video's on new areas on the week where XX is going to come out lol.
Thats how great their marketing is for XX lol.^^
It can't be many 100s of thousands either, their messaging on it is a total mess with MHW commercials/videos coming out now of all times. Could have waited a week or two.
It takes a special kind of Apple-courage to advertise a different product on the eve of the launch of another in the same IP.
If memory serves me right, i remember Capcom doing a similar thing in the past:
Announcing the PS2 port of Resident Evil 4 even before the GC version was released. Which was totally unnecessary given that the port was more or less a year away. That costed both sales of consoles and the game.
MH:XX is no different. They make public the Switch port is coming months in advance possibly impacting the 3DS version sales. One up this by eclipsing the port itself, turning on the propaganda wheel for the latest main entry in the series before XX port is released.
Has Capcom made this in other cases or outside Nintendo platforms? Would really like if someone know the answer.
i do apologize since it seems i might be singling out Nintendo platforms but those are the examples i know of. Well those and the EA one... which again was for a Nintendo plafrom.
They announce PC ports in advance.
i don't think that's comparable to the above examples. But do you think in the cases you know of that it compromised sales for a given platform as much? Would be great if you mentioned concrete examples.
RE 4 was known as an exclusive up until that point. MH:XX was exclusive to the 3DS and most people expectations were for the series to continue on the 3DS succesor. And the EA case was really something else.