Monster Hunter Wilds is coming to Switch 2

[Otter]

curl-6 said:

Otter said:

Switch 1 was just way less capable. As opposed to seeing it as half-hearted, the truth is it was just a much bigger and less intelligent investment to get games onto that platform. Their games made for PS4/Xbox One specs wouldn't of scaled down well without significant investment, and creating ground up exclusives for the Switch wouldn't make sense when they had a very lucrative PS/PC market where relevancy there established their current success. Monster Hunter for example wouldn't have had its break out global success without that modern, AAA experience World delivered back in 2018. 

S2 actually fits in with their ecosystem instead of requiring them to shift their ecosystem specifically to incorporate Nintendo. 

Something like MH World wouldn't have been viable to bring to Switch 1, but I see no real reason why they couldn't have ported say RE7 when much more demanding games ended up making their way across like Witcher 3, Doom Eternal, or Hogwarts Legacy.

Still, better late than never; they're certainly making up for lost time now.

Porting is rarely about being possible or not, more a case of how much investment vs level of return + sacrifice on the OG experience/vision. The big investment required is why you had whole external development studios porting experiences like Doom to Switch 1 or Saber Interactive porting Witcher 3, versus Capcom managing RE9 to S2 internally, late in development and still having it arrive alongside their original release target with a comparable experience. 

The fact that none of the Switch 1 ports you listed were done internally tells you how much they would have derailed internal teams schedule and priorities. Again, I just wouldn't see it as low effort before versus tons of effort now. It's been a calculated effort across both generation which is why you had all the PS3/360 gen RE games and prior natively ported to Switch. For me it just comes back to this

"S2 actually fits in with their ecosystem instead of requiring them to shift their ecosystem specifically to incorporate Nintendo."