To infinity and beyond!

Also Capcom not putting MH on switch is Capcom's loss honestly. They don't know how to do business if they do that

What’s crazy about this is after w16 I was like ok maybe AC won’t get close after all but it was still cool to compare and now the gap has shortened since then. Looking at at least W20-W24 the gap could potentially shrink down 1mil since Obon coming up and AC has the bundles.

It'd be great if they did a Switch port of World as long as it ran decently, but yeah obviously that isn't going to happen. World's success in the west means Capcom doesn't need to drop PS/Xbox in exchange for Nintendo. But still it would make financial sense for them to have a team making a ground up Switch version of the next game while they make the PS5/XBS version.

A Switch version of the next game would cost a lot less than the other version and add many millions to their sales. Japan alone would probably rack up 4 or 5 million sales on the Switch. It could realistically be a 10+ million seller on Switch alone thanks Japan domination, and since they are already making the game a lot of code could be copied to the Switch version, just with different assets made from the ground up for the Switch, and then obviously changing the code in whatever ways needed to optimize for the Switch. It'd probably be an extra 10+ million sales for at most 50% extra effort. Though knowing third parties these days, they'd rather just be lazy than make more money.

aways Japanese week sales have Mh discussion. Why? Capcom helped Switch elaboration. Capcom has great sales on the Nintendo Platform ( the best selling SF to the date is on Nintendo platform, Megaman, good sales of Monster Hunter and Resident Evil). The great Capcom series have good sales. Nintendo Switch is a major platform now. 

It's nonsensical and Capcom lost a ton of money not make an MH game for Nintendo Switch. Maybe 150-300 Millions of dollar. If Capcom has an agreement with Sony that agreement has to be something that exceeds that amount. If not, it was extremely dumb and poorly planned. 

Monster Hunter World was only possible thanks to sales of the series on the Nintendo console.

It is Monster Hunter Stories 2.

MH and Iceborne comparison comes about in comparing how the expansion approach compares to prior installments having an expanded version, in the case of the portables the majority of the userbase followed onto the expanded versions at a rate of 80% being the lowest to some even 100% while in in MHW only a third has so far followed through in total in acquiring the expansion and this is across three platforms it's not what anyone thinks it's going by current numbers for reference if each platform sold equally that means from 5m only 1.7m have continued on. Now compare that to something like MH4 where 100% followed through of the 4.1m of even the lowest in MHF to MHFU which is 80 in 3.9m, Iceborne sold 5m after six months on 3 platforms but MH4U was already pass 3m in under one meaning on a platform by platform basis that's 1.7m in six to 3m plus in one.

The context is someone cited sales but numbers as seen in the portable side are not only consistent but comparable to each platform it retains a certain demographic that the home platforms don't reach as well and still at this point remains untapped.

Yup. And, unfortunately, its likely not gonna be that many.

Even if Switch users pass all of these game "tests" and buy whatever lackadaisical ports Capcom brings, Capcom is likely not going do anything more than that on Switch. Its a shame. There are opportunities to bring new entries of popular franchises on Switch (i.e., Ace Attorney, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, etc.). Heck, a sequel to Tatsunoko vs. Capcom would be cool since Switch isn't even getting SFV: Champion's Edition or MvC.

To the big third party developers from Japan, here's what I am asking: What are you waiting for to consider providing more Switch support?

The Switch is dominating Japan (and likely continue to do so even with the PS5 launching this year), selling well elsewhere, and has had some decent third party success, especially when most of the support are late (or last-gen) ports. Sure, the majority of the software sales are from Nintendo's first party offerings, and its likely not going to change, but that doesn't mean a new entry from Monster Hunter, Ace Attorney, Professor Layton, and others are unwarranted on Switch.

Yeah, talking in general globally here, but when you consider something as old as Skyrim that's available on everything else for way less money still has sold over 1 million copies on the Switch while being priced at $60 that should be a huge green flag to all third party devs that Switch owners will buy up millions of games if third parties just bothered building AAA games for the Switch. And specifically for popular games in Japan like MH it just makes no business sense to not have the game on the Switch built for the Switch. They're literally missing out on many millions of sales with that one game.

And that’s the thing. AA-AAA doesn’t necessarily mean games like FFVIIR or RDR2. If a quality action game like Astral Chain or a quality JRPG like DQXIS can sell well on Switch, why can’t a new MH or Capcom Vs. game do the same? Hell, USFII apparently sold well on Switch, and it had a mediocre 3D side mode as “new” content. Even if Switch sold 100 million, Capcom is more likely to stick with PS5 only for SF6.

Third parties for the most part just seem perpetually short-sighted when it comes to Nintendo.

Here we have one of the fastest selling systems in history, absolutely dominating Japan in particular, with numerous examples of third party games selling well on it, and still their support is mostly lackluster. They're leaving so much money on the table.