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@BLP_Software I doubt Sony will let Dragon Quest being released on Switch. It's the game that will save the PS4 in Japan. Sony paid for Street Fighter 5 not being released on Xbox One and Monster Hunter World to not be released on Switch. They control the industry now.

@CrazedCavalier But Capcom didn't exclude anyone. They wanted everyone to play the game competitively. The fact it didn't work doesn't change the fact they wanted to target a larger audience.
And no the Monster Hunter fanbase isn't the AAA audience. Or it wouldn't have been low budget games exclusively released on handhelds since years. The AAA audience don't play on handhelds. That's why the 3DS and the Vita sold badly in the west. But it's a great thing for Capcom to target this audience with Monster Hunter. The AAA market is much larger than the handhelds market and they can make more sales.

@CrazedCavalier "Also, you're completely ignoring that SFV was pandering to the core at the exclusion of everyone else "

I don't know where did you hear that but literally the opposite happened and Capcom never hid it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSgA_nK_w3A

But there's nothing wrong with Monster Hunter pandering to the AAA audience. It's a much bigger audience than the Monster Hunter community that is mainly concentrated in Japan.

The blue shell is a good balancing tool though. 2nd et 3rd place always have bananas or green shells and they are always targeted by red shells. The first place would be advantaged without the blue shell.

Oh boy the good old smear campaign is back. Yeah why don't Nintendo follow the same policy as the megacorps Sony and Microsoft and favor big budget western games? Nintendo is truly evil for favoring an audience who isn't interested in those games.

@iNintendo The PS4 is selling faster than PS2 and was released in more countries and is supported by the biggest first party studios of the industry. It will reach 200 millions sales easily.

@gatorboi352 Ports on system from its previous system is a policy that has been popularized by Sony with the PS4 though

@DESS-M-8 No buy why should they make high budget games in genres that don't sell at all anymore?

@Zapazoid Super Sentai were invented 20 years before Power Rangers you know.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Nintendo is right to adopt this ports policy. It was popularized by the PS4 which is the best selling system of all time. People want ports. And it doesn't involve developers of new games anyway.

@DESS-M-8 Do you have any strategy that doesn't involve spending tons of money for no profit?

@LArachelDisciple People like the Sonic Adventure games because they were high budget games for the era when they were made. After Sega left the hardware market, Sonic games sales went lower and lower and same goes for the budget. The Sonic team survived to these days because Nintendo gave them work with all the Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games.

@NEStalgia Nintendo stopped reporting the liquidities they have in 2015 after people spotted they spent more than half of it to build a new building in Kyoto. After that they probably spent a large part of the remaining to buy back the auctions from the Yamauchi family (Hiroshi Yamauchi wasn't just the boss of Nintendo, he was also the owner of the company), which is probably the reason why they had to sell their stake in that baseball team to limit the losses.
Nintendo isn't healthy at all and it shows in their games. Their budget is limited. The last Zelda was great but it lacked narrative content, cinematics, voice acting. These things aren't a matter of talent, it's purely a budget problem. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo closed Retro Studio at this point. Sony and Microsoft closed a big studio in the last years, it's surprising Nintendo hasn't done the same already. But the fact we didn't see the game Retro is supposed to work on is very worrying.
People think Nintendo is a big company like Apple but they're wrong. Nintendo is a tiny company with a niche audience. Even third parties like EA, Ubisoft or Activision are bigger companies than Nintendo. The japanese industry is facing the biggest crisis ever. Less than 5 millions consoles have been sold in Japan in 2016. It's the lowest score recorded ever. The number will be slightly better in 2017 because of the Switch release but not that much. I doubt the Switch will save the japanese industry.

This list makes no sense. The third game is a baseball game. And if it's a best sport games list there isn't a single football game.

Real reason is Nintendo isn't as healthy as people think. They just can't buy millions of their products to flood the market with. They lost the majority of their liabilities during the last 5 years, and not only because of the Wiiu. The japanese industry is facing a major crisis and is becoming very niche but fans of the 90/2000's era still think japanese videogames are mainstream.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE I doubt they will port it on Switch after these numbers.

Monster Hunter X/Generations is now the second best selling Monster Hunter games of all time. The stability of the franchise is impressive. It sold 15 millions games on the 3DS in 4 episodes, after selling 12 millions games on PSP. It's the biggest franchise of Capcom this gen, far ahead Resident Evil, while Street Fighter completely plummeted.
But the Monster Hunter audience is aging and Monster Hunter Stories failed to renew the audience so the future is uncertain for them. If the Switch manage to create a market big enough that could be good for them, or they'll have to compete on the Steam/PS4/One market where japanese games are stuggling finding an audience and are on a negative dynamic compared to the previous generation.

This game could easily be ported on any system available. Just another classic example of Sony buying console exclusivity to not let it being released elsewhere and not caring the japanese industry is reaching less and less people with worse and worse sales every year since almost 10 years. I was a big fan of Sony but now I boycott them since I realized they only want to destroy the japanese industry because it's the only way they found to kill Nintendo.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE
We've reached a point where it's more Capcom's problem than Nintendo's. Even on a small market as the WiiU Nintendo still sold much more games than Capcom this gen. And Capcom is only surviving thanks to the Monster Hunter games since Street Fighter 5 flopped.
If Capcom don't want to help the Switch to become a big market it's their problem and they'll have to deal with the AAA western competition on the Playstation market that is crushing the japanese industry.

@JLPick The 3DS has been "left out" (lol) because it's getting all the big games. Shovelwares developpers prefer the Vita because they don't have any competition. And they still sell terribly. I haven't bought a Vita game since 2 years because how terrible the quality of the games is. But as long as the resolution is superior it means the game is better according to people easy to trick.

@JLPick Yeah this is totally Nintendo fault if japanese games are selling terribly on PS4.

@jobunker It's true. Nintendo is a small company from the 80's and was never able too compete against Sony. It is estimated 20 000 people work in the Playstation division with several AAA studios having over 200 employees while Nintendo has only 5000 employees and zero AAA studio.
And the same can be said about the whole japanese industry. They were never able to adapt to the AAA market. Capcom, Square, Sega, Konami, they all wanted to be the japanese EA and they all failed and they're all getting crushed by the western publishers on the Playstation market. When Nintendo will fall the rest of the japanese industry won't take long to follow. It's going to be like Sega. Sega was the biggest showcase for arcade gaming. When Sega stopped making hardware the showcase disappeared and arcade gaming died.

Yeah another smear campain from Sony comparing the graphics of a handheld and a home console.
Keep going Sony. You almost completely destroyed the japanese industry already. You're about to reach your goal

@SLIGEACH_EIRE Suda games don't take long to make.

@Spoony_Tech
The japanese industry is getting crushed by the western third parties with their big budget everywhere (and yes also on the PS4) and Nintendo should release another system where the same thing will happen?
Nintendo is 100% right trying to create a market that will favor the japanese industry. Of course the consequence will be a big smear campain against them from most of the western medias but I don't care because I have a brain.

Funny 3D beat'em up inspired by movies such as The 10th Victim or Branded to Kill. Also you had to masturbate your wii mote to recharge your laser sword.

SMT is better than Persona anyway since it doesn't target the girls audience with fan service.

@Hotfusion Not really. The PS2 was much weaker than the Gamecube and the Xbox. Look at Resident Evil 4 on PS2 and Gamecube. It isn't the same game a lot of the set, colors and lightings are missing. That's why Mikami left Capcom, his game was butchered. The PS2 outlived them because Sony spent much more money than competition on exclusives and marketing. That's what they always do. Nintendo is too small too compete and Microsoft is just here to not let Sony getting a monopoly on the consoles market. The funny thing is Microsoft entering on the consoles market forced Sony to release stronger hardware. Before that Sony was cheap on hardware and their marketing did all the job.

@Hotfusion If weak hardware don't last why did the PS2 last longer than the gamecube or the Xbox? It's not a matter of specs, it's a matter of market and a war of money. And since this is a capitalism system the biggest company eat the smaller ones.
One thing sure is if the Switch fails, the japanese industry will die. And they'll deserve it. They were never able to adapt to the AAA model. They chose their fate.

@dumedum Square-enix: 3500 employes
Nintendo: 3000 employes
Playstation division: 8000 employes
Sony own 20 studios. 5 of them are AAA studios (more than 150 employes)
Nintendo own 6 studios. None of them is a AAA studio.
Nintendo also lost half their liabilities in 2012 by buying a building to double the size of Nintendo EAD.
People really overestimate the size and the wealth of Nintendo. If Nintendo had released a HD console instead of the Wii and had lost as much money as Microsoft and Sony with their 360 and PS3 they would be dead now. Nintendo can't release something as competitive as the electronic giants of the market so they follow the philosophy of Gunpei Yokoi: outdated technology used in a fun way.

@Kyranosaurus You overestimate Nintendo's size, wealth and capability. As a company Nintendo is about the same size as Square-Enix. They're on a completely different scale than electronic giants like Microsoft, Sony or Apple. Nintendo can't loose billions on one product or they would die.

@Jumpman The DS beat the PS2 in all mean markets (USA, Europe, Japan). It didn't beat the PS2 worldwide because Nintendo is too small to release their consoles in as much countries as Sony.

@electrolite77 Yeah but it's always impressive when a small company like Nintendo beat a huge one like Sony. They never fought with equal weapons and Sony always crushed them with marketing budget and exclusives buying. Nintendo is still resisting until now but other small companies like Sega, SNK, Atari or Nec didn't survive long.

@jwfurness I don't see how Splatoon controls would work with Kid Icarus Uprising without lowering the speed of the game. You can't aim as fast as a stylus with a stick. Kid Icarus Uprising is a real game designer's game with original controls and the game modeled around them. It should be more recognized as the masterpiece it is and a true heir of the arcade era from the 90's when the controls were simple and the games were fast. It was a fresh game in a modern industry where the gameplays are so standardized and key people are scriptwriters and art directors, not game designers.

@Furealz Fighting games were the most popular genre in that era and Street Fighter was as popular at Mario. When I see the state of the genre now, something went really wrong.

@cleveland124 The fact you're a fan or not doesn't change anything. There is a trend of the middle budget games being crushed by the AAA market and disappearing. And since this is the market Nintendo targets, they will die.

@cleveland124 It was a different era. Much more retail games were released back then because you could make one with a team of 30 people. The PS4 is also getting less retail games than the PS2. Lot of people are still in denial about the fact the japanese industry is collapsing. Mostly because they are losing their godfather Nintendo who was the larger provider of money and workforce for this industry. When you kill Nintendo you kill a source for them.

@Bass_X0 I think Kyle Hyde is in the game. Kenji Hisada has a very similar story to him. They even have the same first letter in their name. It was probably their way to say goodbye to this character.

I think it's better than the first one. More content, more replayability, better paced level design. And Copen is cool to play and is basically an easy mode. And his gameplay reminded me Sparkster or Pulseman.

Iron Commando is a reskin of the Punisher arcade game from Capcom. The animations and the game system are very similar. I don't know why the Genesis got a port or the Punisher arcade game but the Snes version had to drop the licence.

Nintendo still has zero AAA studio so I don't see them taking the "exceptional graphics" path. And they're right. The AAA model isn't viable in the long run and destroy the people who make them.

@Ichiban The main target is probably the japanese market. They'll try to save it. I don't think they will succeed though. If a huge company like Sony can't save the japanese market I don't see a small company like Nintendo changing the trend.

@SahashraLA The 3DS is at least doing PSP numbers. Something every other system of this gen fail to do. And if Sony care so much about the industry why do they hold in hostage a great franchise like YS and let it die on their hardware. You try to make me think those games couldn't run on a Nintendo hardware? If they were less stupid they wouldn't have bashed Nintendo so much about graphics and it wouldn't have backfired over the rest of the japanese industry who is doing abysmal numbers. Once again, destroying the entire japanese industry for the sake of killing Nintendo was an incredibly stupid move and I hope Yoshida will be fired.

@Manjushri The Vita isn't a success in Japan though. It's far behind the PSP. It's just the japanese market has collapsed so it looks like it's doing good. The only actual system doing previous gen numbers is the 3DS. If the successor of the 3DS isn't a success I don't see how the japanese industry could survive. I hope Sony will be reasonable and stop bribing japanese publisher to ignore it because destroying the japanese industry just to kill Nintendo is a really childish and stupid move.

@Ralek85 The WiiU had some third parties exclusives too such as ZombiU, Rayman Legends, Wonderful 101, Fatal Frame 5, Bayonetta 2, Devil's Third, Tokyo Mirage Session. The problem is everytime there was a smear campaign against these games that convinced people they were bad before their release. And these smear campaigns are backfiring over the rest of the japanese industry. Sales of japanese games on Sony's systems are at an histiorical low this gen. It's been so bad that Square-Enix is now mostly a mobile publisher.
Shuhei Yoshida is destroying the entire japanese industry just because he wants to kill Nintendo. He's unresponsible. He's playing with the jobs of thousands people just because he's failling at killing Nintendo in a fair way. I really hope Sony will realize how dangerous he is and will fire him.

It will probably target the AAA market but it will fail because Monster Hunter games are too complex for the AAA market. But it's not like the big suits at Capcom had any ideas about what they are doing lately.

@XCWarrior Not the same market. The PS4 Pro is for professional gamers. People who make a living by playing videogames.

@Kidfried That would be great. It would completely kill Square-Enix (who is already being kicked out from the PS4/One market). And that would be deserved since they weren't able to release a good game lately because they focus all their effort on the dozens of cheap mobile games they released this year.

@The_Dude_Abides Actually the future is on Xbox since Sony is also abandoning console gaming for cheap mobile games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_85ySl_nTY

Sad to see Gravity Rush 2 will sell so terribly because the IP has been completely destroyed.

It's probably Virtua Fighter.

When will Japan stop with their Power Rangers rip off?