im amazed at the number of sales people thinking mh5 wont come to switch
of course capcom is going to say it is a mainline game for their big budget crack at the west
mh3 wii was also mainline, that didn't stop it from appearing on handhelds
ffxi and dq x was also mainline
do people really think capcom is just gonna drop the 3-4m handheld mh players for absolutely no reason at all? that userbase is certainly not going to all migrate to the ps4
if the game is good enough and sells well enough to be considered mh5, then switch will get a port eventually at the least, theres no chance they do nothing after mh:xx, it makes absolutely no sense
You mean less than IX? Yes, I do think so.
Before the opening of pre-orders, japanese blogs as Sinobi or the usual leaker blog predicted 1.2M FW for the 3DS version and 600k FW for the PS4 version.
But with the current pre-order information, the 3DS seems been underperforming and pre-orders for both versions are equal. And this is not coming from just Comg and Amazon.jp. GamesMaya said the same, and the leaker blog suggested some weeks ago that the difference between 3DS and PS4 was very slim.
Then, probably at the moment a realistic prediction would be 800-850k for each version, with a small margin for the 3DS version.
Still, there's a chance that casual gamers will buy the 3DS version without pre-orders, so the final numbers for this version might be closer to the original prediction.
But we'll see if they are busy with Splatoon 2 or what.
i think the more likely reason is that ps4 version is overperforming rather than 3ds underperforming ie 3ds opening up at 2m while ps4 opens up at 800k rather than 500k
i definitely think ps4 will only add more to dqxi's total sales, rather than eating into 3ds sales, switch version is more likely to eat into 3ds sales than ps4 version will
splatoon is virtually the same in preorders numbers and the ceiling for that is 1m fw, dqxi is not going to open at 1m fw combined for both versions so that tells us comgnet numbers are pretty useless in this case
dq casual fanbase is huge, they're definitely not represented at all in those preorder numbers
why do you think dqxi will sell less than dqix? the series hasn't shown any kind of decline
remakes were still opening up at 500k+ and total sales of 1m+
pokemon is probably the only franchise to regularly put up better numbers for remakes but each game is only remade once while dq remakes and ports get released much more often
