RUMOR: Sony has acquired the rights for a Monster Hunter 5 release on PS4 in 2018. Update: confirmed that it is false rumour.

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KLXVER said:

p0isonparadise said:

Because Nintendo handhelds are bigger in Japan?

Yet MH biggest sales was on the PSP...

MH sales would have been even bigger if the games could run on the DS. Capcom wanted DS, but only PSP could run it. 

When the oppurtunity came to ditch Sony portables, Capcom did it, because Sony needed MH more than MH needed Sony.