Monster Hunter World announced for PS4/Xbox One/PC

[vivster]

Nuvendil said:

vivster said:

Maybe they're just trying to grow the brand? This is the biggest MH release the west ever had. I don't think the west ever had a proper chance to get accustomed to Monster Hunter, especially on PC.

Of course it sells better in Japan when the last games were all on handheld and western gamers don't give a shit about these kind of games on a handheld.

...but they could have done both.  This game isn't a technological marvel, they could have put it on the Switch as well and had a massive win-win.  Find new fans in the West, retain and grow their fans in Japan.  Now they're risking cutting out a massive portion of their MonHun fans in Japan in hopes of grabbing new people who may or may not make up for that loss.  You grow your brand by maintaining your base and branching out, not risking destroying that base for anticipated replacements.  

And Nintendo could've made a proper home console to make it way easier for 3rd parties. But we can't always have what we want. The question isn't IF something can run on the Switch but if it is viable to torture your devs to port a game that is running perfectly fine on 3 different platforms but has to be modded heavily to fit on a tiny ARM platform.