The circlular logic would have been nice to stop yesterday...

So back to MHW, 

I've made a thread discussing the potential impact on ps4 hardware in Japan since its ps4 exclusive there. Everyone's welcome to give their opinion! http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=229613&page=1

Regarding more mhwc info capcom are doing a livestream in just under 4 days. There will surely be a big info dump then. 

Somebody leaked the demo that they showed behind closed doors here.

https://u.nya.is/fzyrht.mp4

I think the game looks a bit better than my initial impressions, but I am still a bit worried about the combat.

I do like some of the QoL additions, and the environments are very nicely constructed.

The things I didn't like: too many QTE's, too much cinematic scenes interrupting the combat, and the voice-acting is annoying. It also looks too easy. He barely dodges/blocks and there were only a few times he was at risk of dieing. Playing like that in a classic monster hunter title would get you dead. He(they) also wasn't(weren't) hitting the monsters strategically. I mean they were hitting Rathalos in the tail, when it was stunned on the ground and the head was accessible. I don't know if that is because they are bad at the game or if the damage zones on the body parts has been reduced in importance, but they shouldn't have been able to kill it playing like that, unless they have overpowered gear, but the commentator said "I don't know if their gear is good enough to beat him."

The lack of zones did not negatively affect the gameplay as I thought it would. It actually makes the chase smoother. I like that.

Overall I think it looks like a good game, but I am worried that the combat is simplified way too much. Hopefully that isn't the case, but I am sure many people who haven't played the game before would like it. I'm looking forward to see more on the 20th.

Unlike in the west where its ps4/xbone/pc, japan gets royally screwed over by being ps4 exclusive. Yep not even pc...
Oh well lets get capcom desparate so that nintendo can buy them off. Nintendo has treated capcoms IP better than THEY have. They trashed SF and megaman and nintendo does exelent jobs to them in smash..

That demo looks awesome. A massive step up for the series. Can't wait until te official proper quality demo is shown.

Views on YouTube are pretty big. 2.5m on the japanese reveal. 6.6m on the western reveal. 1.6m on another random. Plenty of others with under a million.

And now the livestream from yesterday in Japan is already over a million. The reception so far has been pretty positive and it's getting plenty of attention.

Half of those views are Nintendo fans downvoting the videos.

That 6.9m seems a bit high and suddenly out of nowhere.  Could they be paying for the video to be advertised thus boosting it's views?  

I'm not to motivated by predictions tbh. I enjoy enjoy seeing the sales roll in every week.