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Re: Monster Hunter Tri, Sin and Punishment Nowhere to Be Seen in UK Charts

Oregano

Monster Hunter debuted at number 5! The best debut for the franchise! Then hold on at 12! and now is 22!

That's not bad at all, that's pretty damn good actually.

Sin and Punishment is having trouble because it hasn't had full distribution that Nintendo usually has, it isn't available in most shops. I went to get it on Friday in HMV but it wasn't there so I'm going to have to get it from Amazon.

That's in addition to it's obscurity problem.

Re: Capcom Will Give You 22 Games Before April

Oregano

Pathetic Wii line up. The Wii sold the most software over all for them last year with the second least number of releases(PC only had 3) and even if you take Monster Hunter out of the equation still sold more than the 360 which had an equal amount of titles(8).... and now they have SIX planned?

And before anyone says that's quite a few. It's not. They have 12 360 games planned, 16 PS3 games and 19 PSP games! WTF?

That's horrendous treatment no matter what way it's spun and I bet some people will be along shortly to do just that.

Re: Cave Story Confirmed for Australia

Oregano

I thought in the case of Wiiware(and DSiware) it's that a lot of the smaller publishers can't afford the extra rating... with bigger releases it isn't really a problem. The lack of an 18+ rating is Australia is the problem there.

Re: Cave Story Confirmed for Australia

Oregano

Good, it's a bit sad that Australians have to miss out on quite a few games because of the extra rating that needs to attained. It's a weakness of the whole PAL region really.

Re: Nintendo Profits Fall for the First Time Since 2004

Oregano

Well of course Iwata would be out of the door if he said it!

What I meant is that Yamauchi's interests are what are most important to Nintendo and he'll always be investing in Nintendo so they have a security blanket that most other companies lack.

Re: Nintendo Profits Fall for the First Time Since 2004

Oregano

@Hardy83: Investors aren't as important to Nintendo as most companies though because of the fact that Yamauchi owns a lot(the majority?) of Nintendo.

And making 2.4 billion is A LOT, especially in the current climate. The majority of businesses would love to be able to say they only made 2.4 billion.

Re: Monster Hunter 3 a Roaring Sales Success in UK

Oregano

@Mickeymac: It was stated in the PR that it was the best debut for the franchise so it's definitely done good, just a question of how good.

It's also held no 12 this week despite five new releases, including Fifa which is counted separetely for each system.

Re: Yuji Naka's Ivy the Kiwi? to XSEED Expectations

Oregano

I don't see the point in retail releasing this game at all.... there are downloadable version(which I hope will be released) that just lack the multiplayer mode and the game was originally a mobile game....

unless it was super cheap to make.