![]() ![]() On Vita, a few of these initiatives continued and one even showed up at launch - Square Enix's foray into the genre, Lord of Apocalypse. While PSP had been home to Monster Hunter itself, a sea of imitators from various publishers were also released to cash-in on the market, ranging from the hugely successful ( God Eater from Bandai-Namco) to the quickly forgotten ( Frontier Gate from Konami). SOUL SACRIFICE DELTA DLC NOT SHOWING UP SERIESIt's these series I'm intending to examine in this article - what they are (including many that actually pre-dated Monster Hunter or appeared alongside it on PSP), how many entries Vita saw, how well they sold, and how well they succeeded at providing a co-operative hunting experience. With the audience still very much interested in buying a true next-gen successor on the Vita despite the hardware shift, other companies stepped in to attempt to plug the gap in the market, leading to a large variety of imitator franchises on the Vita. The stage was all set for the franchise to make the jump to Sony's new handheld in 2011, but in a surprise piece of news it was announced the series would instead be transitioning to Nintendo's new 3DS handheld. SOUL SACRIFICE DELTA DLC NOT SHOWING UP PORTABLEEach successive release sold better than the previous entry, culminating in Monster Hunter Portable 3rd clearing nearly 5 million copies. In Japan, one franchise injected new life into the little handheld turning it from a decent seller into the must-have machine in the country - this was, of course, Monster Hunter.Ĭapcom's co-operative action-adventure series was born on the PS2 but found a much better audience on the PSP, where local ad-hoc play became somewhat of a phenomenon in the country. While the PSP definitely got off to a flying start in terms of sales thanks to the promise of console quality gaming on the go, things took a downturn in the following years due to a variety of factors including increasing competition from the DS & phones, and a lack of quality exclusives. ![]() By Adam Cartwright, posted on / 5,599 Views ![]()
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