Capcom Expects Monster Hunter 4G To Sell 3.9 Million Copies

<p>Like every other major Japanese publisher&comma; Capcom has released a whole host of details about its previous financial year as well  forecasts for the next 12 months&period; One of those forecasts is that Monster Hunter 4G &lpar;known as Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate in the West&rpar; will shift 3&period;9 million units by April 2015&period; The game is due to launch this Autumn in Japan and early next year everywhere else&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company also revealed that the original Monster Hunter 4 has far surpassed their expectations&period; Predicted to sell 2&period;8 million copies in the past 12 months the 3DS exclusive has actually sold over 4&period;1 million&period; Capcom&&num;8217&semi;s predictions for 4G therefore seem pretty reasonable&period; The company offered no other software projections in its report&comma; likely because Monster Hunter 4G is its only big title announced for the next fiscal year&period; However&comma; Capcom did name Resident Evil&comma; Street Fighter&comma; Devil May Cry&comma; Dead Rising  and Lost Planet as &&num;8216&semi;powerful titles&&num;8217&semi; so we could be seeing new entries in those franchises announced at E3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can read all about Capcom&&num;8217&semi;s plans for the next year in their <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;capcom&period;co&period;jp&sol;ir&sol;english&sol;data&sol;pdf&sol;explanation&sol;2013&sol;full&sol;explanation&lowbar;2013&lowbar;full&lowbar;03&period;pdf">Overview of Strategy and Plans<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2014&sol;05&sol;09&sol;capcom-plans-to-sell-3-9-million-more-copies-of-monster-hunter-4&sol;">Joystiq<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;