$20 is a tiny investment. And I'd wager a good chunk of the 1.8m+ MH3G players own a CPP already anyway. Again, userbase arguments certainly won't help you when you're pushing for Vita ports, so it's a bit hypocritical to jump on the CPP for that anyway.
PSP software sales have been down across the board since 2010, but I'm not begrudging something like GE2 still being on it. Unlike Vita, PSP at least has the userbase still to justify this sort of release.
3DS has an optional 2nd stick/triggers, built in touchscreen and can also provide a graphical boost (3D). Upping the resultion and moving camera look from dpad to left analog isn't leveraging anything specific on the design level, GE2 is still a 100% PSP game.
3DS is better suited than Vita in fact, due purely to marketplace. Technically it's also just as capable of running a PSP port like GE2 (with platform specific enhancements) so that's a total nonissue.
I'm not abdicating a 3DS PSO2, I already said the system likely couldn't pull it off and handhelds in general are illsuited to such a game. The comparison you should be making is to consoles with a persistent internet connection, as that's obviously where PSO2 should be ported.
Again, how would it "ruin" or "compromise the vision" of a PSP game to get ported to 3DS? My problem isn't with your argument in general (devs choosing platforms based on technical capability), but in this specific case it's unmitigated bullshit. There's literally nothing PSP can do that 3DS can't and often better. That's what at issue. It'd be the same for LBXW, Toukiden, or any other PSP port.
Is this the longest, most elaborate port beg ever?
'Market forces' don't seem to have all that much bearing on which devices third parties choose to support, as evidenced by the Wii.
If you think I'm arguing every game should be released on 3DS then you are indeed uninformed.
It really isn't. This might be the most succinct troll I've seen out of you in while though. I admire a man who really hones his craft.
Well, say what you will about Wii's 3rd party support, but at least it managed to get a Monster Hunter.
You seem to have precious little insight into what I actually think, but let's try to steer this trainwreck back on topic: God Eater 2. And yes, "incentives" are probably the reason it's PSP/Vita rather than PSP/3DS or PSP/3DS/Vita.
I wouldn't even say it's a given Durango will release in Japan, let alone get any kind of majority of 3rd party support.
EX Troopers had Capcom as a dev/publisher and MH DNA all over it (fitting, given how loosely this thread has been throwing around the MH clone term). Why should it have done badly? It was clearly a game that was designed foremost for a portable. Why should the PS3 version have done better, given that it was one of those cheap port jobs?
Guaranteed? You mean just like Musou, Ridge Racer, Street Fighter, Metal Gear and virtually every other 3rd party franchise was guaranteed to do better on Vita?
He isn't. Discussing platform appropriateness =/= port begging. And frankly it isn't all that difficult to discern the difference.
No doubt, pretty much every big game is likely incentivised these days. Some would still come to their platforms anyway though, I'm not sure if that case could be persuasively made for GE2 Vita.
You're seeing what you want. I'm not even personally interested in the game.
The case for MH3G/4 on 3DS is self evident: Nintendo's the clear market leader. If DS could've run it, MonHun would've made sense on it as well. Capcom's even said their intent to move predated any offers from Nintendo.
About God Eater 2, i see it as a 50/50 thing, meaning that it makes equally sense where it was ported. The benefit the 3DS has is the larger userbase, and maybe having Monster Hunter as well on that system. For Vita, i see the advantage of being able to offer cross-play between the PSP and Vita (i remember discussions about why it is important not to split the userbase regarding games in the hunting genre). Maybe it is quicker and easier to port it to the Vita because of the more powerful hardware as well (less optimizing might be needed for the game to run good).
Guaranteed in the sense that it would be difficult for a game as good as EX Troopers to bomb harder than EX Troopers on 3DS (a wholly unjustified bombing IMO).
But it bombed worse already on a much stronger platform (PS3). What makes you think it would perform better on Vita? Why exactly do you believe it tanked on 3DS?
Ad1. For someone who was just posts ago being sarcastic about someone's market knowledge this is completely hypocritical. Do tell us what the PS4's price and launch games will be please.
50k? Thought it was closer to 25k
