Monster Hunter 3 Release Disaster After All

Good game... wrong console.

Those of you saying it isn't a flop because it's selling by the bundles, are there any sales numbers for the bundles? Curious how those are doing.

Im happy and sad at the same time :/. On one had I love monster hunter and it makes me sad that it isnt sell to well D:. But on the on the other hand screw Capcom for putting it exclusivly on the Wii :D

*Facepalm*

MH3 Disc only version is selling bad. The bundles are doing fine.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/08/11/mh3_for_cheap/

Sankaku article is inaccurate and rabid with fanboyism.

Oh, hey by the way, biccamera.com sold out of the standalone Tri.

If this story isn't blatant sensationalism, then I don't know what is. Get your facts straight before posting rubbish like this.

wrong timingu; xmas game.

Certain shops will put things on sale straight away to beat their competitors. You can really observe this when you shop online; you'll see things like Amazon knocking off something like 30% off something that hasn't even been released yet.

As of August 1st, MH3 is 2nd in the worldwide, multi-format charts. And that's a flop?

http://www.vgchartz.com/

This is like when Sankaku reported that Dragon Quest IX was a flop even though it sold 3 million in pre-orders alone and was the best selling DQ ever (based on several weeks sales). The article Artefact wrote was largely based on small groups of angry online nerds and on about 150 negative Amazon.co.jp reviews - that's 150 out over 3,000,000.

Quality does not equal sales and vice versa.

The thing to note here is that Capcom massively overshipped and retailers over-bought. Capcom is already made their money from the initial shipment. However if they want to ship more copies which they have to because they expect a 2 million shipment before the end of the fiscal year, retailers have to remove their stock.

One thing that makes me wonder is why did retailers purchase so many copies? No console game in Japan has sold 1 million copies this year. So to even think that a game could do that in one week is rather ridiculous.

If you read other articles you will find that the CC bundle had a 70% sell through and the Wii Bundle had an 80% sell through. While the standalone only had a 40% sell through. Capcom underestimated the value of the bundles. In fact they shipped roughly 600,000 stand alones while only 400,000 bundles. The black wii bundle most likely only making up 100,000 of that.

With such a large stock still on shelves due to a mis prediction, retailers have to cut price. So this isn't unexpected at all. Hopefully Capcom and retailers can turn things around and end the year off with 1.5 million units sold.

Heh, all the brain dead people here not comprehending OVERBOUGHT as in have a village of 200 people and bought 200000 apples... Your apples are going to go bad before the villagers can eat them.

Also as stated, people want the bundles with the new black Wii and the controller. So of course they are not going to buy the single game.

Also, there's another article around here about the game having lock-up problems, so some people might be waiting for a fix.

still a want =_=

Can this be built into the engine? ,

Wii doesn't deserve this cool ass game. This game is tooooo awesome to be on this gey console :p

FUCK YOU NINTENDO WII!!!!

Anything to attack the Wii Right? You guys never post anything on the Wii accept its faults, Which this isn't a fault... This is the only website to cut there price for this game and did you forget that this game came in 2 different ways? Most people are buying it bundled with the Black Wii it comes with extra's. So this site cut the price of the stand alone game this is nowhere near a flop.. So I must ask what do you guys have against the Wii? Its the most popular console on the Planet right now, I mean you guy do alot of reports on Tales of Vespera (Or whatever) a PORT for PS3 and the Wii is getting the Main stream tales game Tales of Graces and you guys never say anything about that. I mean they have Loli's in Tales of Graces win I saw that I thought for sure I'd see it on this site but nope not even the power of the Loli got you guys to talk about it. So what is this hatred for?

The 60% and "bad sales" only apply to the disc only version of the game. Everything else, the controller and Wii bundles of MH3, are selling just fine.

Not a big deal.

The game is released on a console which is shunned by real gamers (as Konata^^), slightly easier than previous opus (scuba mode just feels ridiculous, especially with a hammer), no access to higher ranks wihtout online... And only in Japan, where you can play a far more impressive and meatier MonsterHunterFrontier on PC for roughly the same price.

Some monster design are tad pokemonesque to me (especially the tumbling tire one), but i guess it's a matter of taste.

I don't care about MH3 euro release, but i'm eager to see something on ps3 or euro/english version of MHF

Wii sales triple because of Monster Hunter Tri... I don't see why is a Fail.

I was expecting this. I mean MH stuck with Sony even in the portables and then they move to the Wii. They just lost millions of blind fans, and gained people who are saying "WTF is this Sony shit doing in this console?

Drawing a conclusion like this would be like saying Left 4 Dead did poorly because it went on sale on steam a month after it released for 50%.

(Hint: L4D continues to sell amazing)

so many newfaggots in these comments

MH is a great game, Wii is a shitty console

KOFXII is a great fighting game, just a mediocre KOF, then again how would you know that? Keep your comments full of weaaboo for shitty doujin porn games and the likes.

That'll learn ya. Bloody money hungry Nintendo.

sure their strategy of "Lets create a sequel after sequel without any innovation and just modified graphic." Is backfiring, specially with western game taken the lead on every game corner.

If you played the first Magna Carta, you knew the sequel would be overhyped trash right away.

it'll happen again in 10 years

Wonder how much they paid for that review

Good, it's a shit series. If only they'd put it on PS3 so it'd be an even bigger flop.

I still want to get it though. but the first release on psp sucked imho

my friend was just telling me to get monster hunter for the ps2 =/

Monster hunter is very fun & addicting game but if you played 1 you've played them all .

Monster Hunter sounded like a good idea, but never got into it because Capcom absolutely refuse to fix their camera control. Boss fights are 50% boss 50% camera.

Maybe if it at least looked like it belonged in 2009 MH3 would have been a bit more successful. As it is the graphics and gameplay look EXACTLY like the psp version.

The bad review of Monster Hunter 3 by famitsu notwithstanding, those pictures come from the special sale of the online game retailer "bic-camera".

Misleading misinformation in the article insinuates various retailers are all dumping stock of the following titles because they truly suck but this is a specific sale by a specific retailer and covers a large range of titles and hardware peripherals.

Lack of journalistic integrity here?