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FloatingWaffles on 27 September 2017
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Valdath said:
FloatingWaffles said:

Well to be fair, if there was a deal between Nintendo for Monster Hunter exclusivity on 3DS, they payed for it to be full exclusive to their system only. Where as if the rumor is true, Sony just paid to keep the game off of one single platform but being fine with it on another (Xbox). That's sort of a big difference there which is why i'm saying that's shady as hell for Sony to do if it were true.

Also yeah Capcom is greedy as hell, I already mentioned that earlier in this thread as well. 

The thing is though that while maybe it would be a good move business-wise for Sony, getting Japan-exclusive Monster Hunter on PS4, for Capcom it's not a good deal because they just alienated their existing playerbase that made it what it was already and it's shitty for the fans who love the series too and played it on 3DS and now went to Switch. But of course with this being Capcom they immediately went for whoever gave money instead of thinking of a good business decision that appeased both ends. Yes they released Monster Hunter XX on Switch but only in Japan, they won't even localize it for the rest of the world yet. (Probably because if the rumor is true then they don't want that to release near when MHW does too). 

Well Monster Hunter fans already proved to be very royal, they jumped from PSP to 3DS with no issues, Capcom loves to shit on their fans and sales of the franchise don't seem to decrease, i doubt that when World comes out on the Switch many will actually skip it.

 

I also don't get how buying exclusivity or paying to keep a game from coming out on a different platform is worse, but i don't really care since i always own every Sony / Nintendo hardware so i don't miss any games.

 

I also happen to enjoy those exclusive deals and backstabbing, makes for great forum threads xD.

Well the reason why I think it's worse at least is because it's not like Monster Hunter World is a PS4 exclusive and that's what Sony paid for. Usually when these types of deals happen in the past it's the company paying for exclusivity to the game so it can only be found on their system.

Here Monster Hunter World is still just a multiplatform game, even if it's PS4 only in Japan it's still a multiplat in general, but instead Sony paid just to keep it off of one system then so that system's userbase can't get it, which is pretty shady not only on their part but also the fact that Capcom would apparently go along with that after all they did with Nintendo and the franchise, if the rumor is true, but again we already established that Capcom is greedy so it shouldn't really surprise anyone if it's true. Like, that's not even something I ever thought was possible to happen (as in a company paying to keep a multiplat from coming to a platform but coming to the rest of them), who would do that? 

Again that's only if the rumor is even true anyway, I doubt we'll ever know what actually happened there lol. 

But yeah I personally don't care either, I would just get the game on Steam or PS4 when it comes out if I really wanted to play it lol.