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Soundwave on 27 September 2017
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AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Soundwave said:


The Japanese audience decides what is the next "impact" MH game and that won't be a home console game. 

We went through this before with MH Tri on Wii ... that was the next "mainline" MH game ... it also sold 1/4 of what the PSP MH games were selling. Same thing with the PS2 MH games. These are both consoles that are more successful than the PS4. 

The portable MH line ... whatever Capcom chooses to call it is the "main" MH series when it comes to sales, Japan gives zero fucks about what Capcom says the next MH is. The next "big" MH for sales in Japan will be on Switch because Switch is portable. And that game is IMO already well into development. 

Capcom will announce it after MHW releases. 

Right but Monster Hunter Tri got ported to the 3DS ... you see where I'm going with this?

Honestly, it makes very little sense to make two seperate games when such an investment has been put into Worlds. I get that a minority are on the fence about the game, but that probably hardly matters in Japan. They'll jump on any Monster Hunter portable game. The best thing to do would be to port World. 

I simply think that a Switch exclusive would probably be inferior if not done by the main team. That's not what I want when I play my Switch. I'm perfectly fine with people wanting MH on the go, hell I want it. But i'd rather have a Worlds port honestly.

They probably can't port/use the word 'World' anyway because of whatever deal they signed with Sony. 

Monster Hunter 5 Switch is what they'll likely call the Switch game and it will sell 3+ million on Switch in Japan whereas "World" probably won't even do half that. 

And I think the MHXX team is already working on MH5 Switch. MHXX port was basically a way for them to get their feet wet with the system. The whole point of the appeal of MH in Japan is the local portable multiplayer where kids/teenagers play with their buddies during school break/on the bus/train/etc. Console MH can never have that, that's why the console MH games can never replicate what the portable series is. Capcom can name it whatever the fuck they want, but in Japan, that's the reality. 

If it isn't portable, then it isn't "really" the next mainline MH game in the eyes of Japanese consumers.