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Kerotan on 14 June 2017
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Nuvendil said:
Kerotan said:
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They've said this is not a spin off
This is a mainline entry
This is MH5 but they decided to give it a different name
Developed by the main team

So here's what I think. This is a great chance to grow the brand on home comsoles. They're going all in it seems.

Meanwhile Switch gets the handheld port of MHXX later this year in Japan. So that will get them a few extra sales.

Next year there is nothing stopping capcom releasing a new handheld MH title holiday 2018. It would be called MH World portable or MHW G or whatever they can come up with. Imo if capcom do this they're smart.

MHXX this year Switch. MHW early 2018 exclusive to ps4 in Japan and pc/xb1/ps4 in the west.

Then late 2018 release a different MH5 portable version or whether name they come up with.

Sorry, if that's their strategy they are really not paying attention.  XX is not a very popular entry at all, it will do mediocre on Switch in all regions, anyone with a brain can see that.  So they're portable entry for easy cash will crash and burn and there's a significant posibility that their console effort will come in well under expectations, assuming they are expecting they're typical sales.  The only smart option here was to have it simultaneously on BOTH PS4 and Switch.  If you want to screw someone over, screw over the console that still struggles to outsell the Wii U in Japan, not the new hotness that's flying off shelves and that you literally JUST ENTICED YOUR CORE FANS TO INVEST IN!  From a business standpoint, this is just an ignorance of the market.  And definitely don't cut out the portable aspect, the aspect that has propelled the franchise forward in your biggest region.

Oh and if Sony paid for this situation, they should have told Sony to shove it up their ass.  Short term cash isn't worth the risk to the one franchise that has saved their asses repeated for the better part of a decade.

They didn't tell Nintendo to shove it up their ass when they came swooping in to take the one title that would have kept the vita relevant in Japan. So why would they do it now.  

 

Nintendo portables have had enough MH recently.  MHX, MHS, MHXX all on 3DS aswell as MHXX on Switch.  A MH World (MH5) on Switch next spring is too much milking on Nintendo platforms.  

 

They're better off releasing a MHW/MH5 G/X version holiday 2018 on the Switch and ps4. That way they'll get the best of both worlds (pun intended).