Monster Hunter Frontier Online boosts Xbox 360 sales in Japan

Happens with every monster hunter game, ho-hum. imagine what would of happen if this game was on the Ds (with a suitable amount of power backing the hardware)

Software sells hardware.

You think by now MS would have bought a Japanese developer to produce Japanese style games to win people over.

Kinda annoys me...

PS3 cant have MH cause it be "too much", yet 360 can have a spinoff one. :/

And this is PS3 related because of what again?

As much as I love MH, I sure wish we could get one that I could play without hand cramps.

Also, any new console MMO would be cool, but we will never see this in the U.S. Such a shame...

Oh well, back to the PSP we go, I'm sure.

I saw this game before on x360a and I got really excited. Monster Hunter on 360? Sweet!

Then I realized it was a Japan-only MMO. Dammit.

That screenshot almost looks like a parody of japanese games. Those weapons are humongous.

The PS3 seems like it caters more to western audiences than Japanese ones.

Nintendo's two systems and the PSP are where its at for Japanese centric games.

I wish they would bring that here.

The White Album? Is that a Beatles game?

I've been following Monster Hunter Frontier for a while. You gots them new monsters on top of what you've seen in the PSP games, with far more weapons and armor, etc.

What sucks the most is that it will never come stateside. Monster Hunter is not even half as popular in the US as in Japan.

@Nintari Your observation is true outside of Japan, but in Japan thats not really the case. For the reasoning behind my statement please see my response to @Jamesexmachina above.

Now if thats the perceived notion, that may hold some truth.

@Elranzer

Yea titles like Killzone 2 & 3, Resistance 1 & 2, Infamous 1 & 2, Haze, Uncharted 1 & 2, Motorstorm 1,2, &3, and God of War 3 are so Japanese and they "challenge the mind".

Go hang out at the mall, and come back when you decide to stop idolizing the Japanese as a sophisticated people that want to challenge their minds and are the only human population capable of enjoying stories as you call them. Man those anime stories give Shakespeare a run for his money right?

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Correction @ Nintari

I dig the idea of Monster Hunter on 360. Couldn't get myself to play it on PSP due to poor camera controls, but 360's got 2 analogs so... win.

@Nintari
I dunno about you, but I don't find most Japanese stories that "moving".

Oh, there definitely are classics, don't get me wrong. And yeah, Hollywood-style stories run rampant in America. But don't act as if the Western stories are complete crap, and act as if Japan is perfect.
If you ever get over your Japanophile-attitude, you'd actually see that a lot of the "compelling" stories in Japan are just a different kind of immaturity when compared to Western immature stories. Both have large amounts of immaturity which both sides think are mature and amazing, but really, both can be thought of by a kid hitting puberty and getting confused at what to call themselves.

I'm a fan of Japan, and I used to be an otaku. But after I woke up, I realized the "West Side" of the world is friggin' awesome too. Just in a different way. Japan has its flaws, and most Japan-freaks turn away from those flaws in denial.

...go talk to a Japanese born-and-bred, a normal kind, the kind that has an interest in anime but honestly would rather not be associated with otakus - and facepalms themselves when they see foreigners (even Japanese born outside of Japan) idolize everything they do.
They're not better, the normal ones don't consider themselves better - they're different. Different tastes, spice of life.

Okay now all the western countries need some Monster Hunter on X360, with localization of course.

what ever man its not like ill buy these games ..most modern jpgs are being made the same way they were made back in the 90s ..no originality at all . its the same BS gameplay they gave on the psp and wii