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November 23rd, 2009 at 07:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Capcom and Udon Entertainment spent years redrawing and re-balancing Super Street Fighter II Turbo for its HD Remix version. Later, Capcom announced and released a port of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 over the course of a few months, with filters on the original sprites. Guess which one sold better?
“We have three titles that have drastically over-performed our expectations,” Capcom’s VP of strategic planning and business development Christian Svensson told GamesIndustry.biz. “The most recent of which was Marvel vs Capcom 2, which we didn’t expect to exceed Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix’s numbers, but it has.”
One IP that hasn’t quite exceeded Capcom’s expectations in the west is Monster Hunter. The company is working to turn that around with events like Monster Hunter Tri University designed to familiarize press with the workings of the series. “We are strategically investing in the brand in the West,” Svensson explained, “because we know that as a company we’re going to continue to be creating Monster Hunter content, so it behooves us to do what it takes to make it stick here.” In other words, Japanese sales ensure that Capcom is going to continue making the things, so Capcom might as well try to sell them outside of Japan as well.
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 defeated HD Remix in sales battle originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 19th, 2009 at 07:00pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Capcom held a university-themed event Tuesday evening in San Francisco to introduce newcomers to the Monster Hunter universe in the runup to next spring’s North American release of Monster Hunter Tri for the Wii. We’d already played the game at previous events, so we knew what to expect: Monster Hunter, looking nice (especially the large monsters) but not as nice as it could have on the PS3.
After spending some time with the three-level, English-localized trade show demo on-hand — including a go using the very nice Classic Controller Pro, which is included in Japan’s black system/game bundle — we asked Capcom staff about two unsettled questions concerning the game’s US release. The first was the matter of paying to play Monster Hunter Tri online, as the game eschews Nintendo’s servers for Capcom-operated ones and is fee-based in Japan. We didn’t receive a decisive answer, being told only that the publisher is “hoping” the game will be free to play in the US. We got a similar response when we wondered if Wii Speak support was 100% set for the domestic release — Capcom’s “hoping” to get it in, but couldn’t promise anything.
The event did provide taste of what trying to coordinate a successful online monster hunt would be like without Wii Speak — we found it nearly impossible to hear our fellow players (or the game) over the music being piped through the venue’s formidable sound system.
Capcom schools Monster Hunter Tri rookies, unsure about Wii Speak for US originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 26th, 2009 at 12:45pm
Under PSP
Capcom surprised attendees of a Monster Hunter competition in Tokyo by announcing a brand new Monster Hunter title for the PSP. Don’t get too excited though — this appears to be a spin-off game, featuring the series’ Toro-esque mascots. The game is titled “Monhan Nikki Poka Poka Airu Mura,” or “Monster Hunter Diary Poka Poka Airu Village.”
Other than this logo, no other details were revealed about this mysterious new entry to the Monster Hunter franchise. Considering millions of Japanese people bought a PSP specifically for Monster Hunter, Capcom is bound to rake in a lot of dough when this eventually releases.
Capcom announces new Monster Hunter spin-off for PSP, awaits money-flood originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 02:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
We’ll start with the good news about the upcoming Western release of Monster Hunter Tri: according to statements given to MTV Multiplayer by Capcom Community Specialist Shawn Baxter, the North American version of the game will use Capcom-hosted servers, like the Japanese version does, enabling players to connect and play online, free from friend codes.
The other part isn’t necessarily bad news, but it could be in the future: Capcom still hasn’t decided whether to use the pay-for-play model found in all online Monster Hunter games in Japan, or whether to make online play free like it has for those same games in North America so far. It’s likely that Capcom will do things the same way as before (which means free online), but with the company not saying anything, we can’t be sure yet.
Capcom still undecided about Monster Hunter 3 fees originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 17th, 2009 at 01:15pm
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No, this is not a hands-on preview of the upcoming US release of Monster Hunter 3. (You’ll have to wait until next year for that!) Nor is this a review of the Japanese release. (You can, instead, read our hands-on preview from TGS.) This is the next best thing: a review of the limited edition Monster Hunter 3 ramen — or “hunta-men” as the packaging states.
Available for 200 yen (about $2.20), this packaged instant ramen is surprisingly good, featuring a hearty meaty taste and slight spicy kick. There are even dried meat pieces floating in the soup. While it may actually be beef, we’re going to pretend it’s dragon meat, because that’s what a real monster hunter would eat, right?
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Review: Monster Hunter 3 (Ramen) originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 31st, 2009 at 01:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
Even long after Bruce Willis has saved the universe, identified cheaters will still be unable to play Monster Hunter 3. At least that’s the case for one Japanese player, who tried to connect online and was given a dismissive prompt (in Japanese; machine translation here), indicating that he’d been banned until December 12, 9999.
The message cited “modded data” as the cause for the banning, and while we can’t confirm that there was any questionable data on the system, we will say that if you’re looking to hunt monsters (possibly around early 2010), you may want to avoid the uber hax!!1! option. We’d hate for you to have to go on living a lootless life for the next couple thousand years.
[Via Kotaku]
Cheat at Monster Hunter 3, get banned until 9999 AD originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 6th, 2009 at 06:15pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
It’s not impossible to earn a perfect score from Famitsu, you know. The latest to earn top marks is Capcom’s Monster Hunter 3 (based on translation over at NeoGAF), which comes as little surprise considering everyone and their grandmother loves the franchise in Japan.
The true question is: Will it receive such critical acclaim when it hits the States and Europe in early 2010?
[Thanks, Victor]
Famitsu hands Monster Hunter 3 a perfect 40 originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 3rd, 2009 at 01:00pm
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Wii owners eager to take sword in hand and slay humongous creatures had best take note of Capcom’s latest announcement: Monster Hunter Tri is set to depart from Japan (and assured smash-hit status) and arrive in American and European homes in early 2010. The Wii incarnation will boast both online and offline cooperative modes, as well as “strikingly beautiful” graphics and the challenging quests that fans of the franchise have come to expect.
If you consider yourself to be outside that rather large group of the gaming population and have no idea what to expect, understand that among franchises like Devil May Cry and Resident Evil, Monster Hunter stands out as having a remarkably straightforward title. As the titular monster hunter, you’ll track down and slay all manner of snarling creatures, only to turn them into better equipment to facilitate more dangerous monster hunt … ery. Find it, stab it and then make it into a nice hat!
Monster Hunter Tri coming to US, Europe in (sigh) early 2010 originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 30th, 2009 at 01:00am
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Capcom is anticipating monstrous sales of its Wii-exclusive Monster Hunter 3 in Japan, having shipped one million units of the game to retailers in advance of its launch there this Saturday. As pointed out in a blog post on the publisher’s community site, this makes it the first third-party Wii game in Japan to have an initial run of 1M copies.
Saturday’s also a big day for Wii in general, as it’s also when Nintendo launches a version of the system with a gloss black finish — including bundles which will have Monster Hunter 3 as a pack-in. Wow, it’s almost as if Nintendo and Capcom planned it that way. The game is slated to hit the US and Europe before next April; Nintendo claims the black Wii won’t be leaving Japan.
Capcom ships 1 million copies of Monster Hunter 3 for Japan launch originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 15th, 2009 at 07:00pm
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Capcom is issuing a call to all PSP-owning monster hunters, revealing that, if they bring their system and copy of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite to next week’s San Diego Comic-Con, they’ll be able to download eight free quests for the game. The company cautions those planning to do so that only six quests will fit on a memory stick (no file sizes are given), so you’d best bring a second MS Duo along just to be safe.
Four of the eight quests are said to be geared toward beginner-level players; the other eight are intended for Monster Hunter vets. Capcom has remarked that these freebies will serve as a taste of what’s to come from the game’s upcoming DLC, which will hit the PS Store every Friday through the end of 2009. (DLC quests for the game first became available earlier this month.)
Download free Monster Hunter Freedom Unite quests at Comic-Con originally appeared on Joystiq Playstation on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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