A Monster Hunter on the Switch would easily outsell world I think. Though its not that hard to figure out why it hasnt happened, Capcom doesnt have infinite dev teams.
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The lack of a new Monster Hunter entry on Switch seems a bad business decision
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I said it's like saying. I never said that they don't have a bunch of ports and one or two niches.
it won't, but 5 to 7 million is completely doable, which is more than most games do on most platforms (even games that are way more expensive to make)
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If y'all want to port-beg while ignoring numbers then then do you. Hopefully Nintendo cuts that check again so you'll get your wish.
Apparently that's not good enough though.
That's what's weird about this thread and the handful of posters on here that continue to whine about this topic. Not only is there a MH game on the platform, it's a great game as well.
Apparently that's not good enough though.
The only one whining ist the one who's begging to stop the conversation, because just the idea of Monster Hunter on a Nintendo system seems to hurt someones feelings.
No one is ignoring MHW's numbers, and dismissing the discussion in this thread as just "whining" says more about you than it does about anyone else.
There are valid reasons to think that Capcom might consider making a Switch Monster Hunter in the time before MHW2. No one is saying that the Monster Hunter World sub-series would cease to exist.
port-beg for what, exactly? i guess you can call it new game-begging, but that happens like a hundred times every day on this forum, people asking for new games in their favorite series for whatever platform. why does it bother people when it's for a new MH on switch?
If world's sales are anything to go by, it's not leaving the Playstation and Xbox anytime soon.
Well I own Generations Ultimate so maybe the individuals you're referring to should check out the game. It even goes on sale quite often. :)
nah it wouldn't outsell 3 platforms.
Do we know PS4's numbers? I bet it could get close to those numbers possibly?
Yeah there should have been a new Monster Hunter game released on Switch by this point, or at least announced. They're leaving millions in sales on the table. It would very easily become one of Capcom's best-selling titles ever, and they certainly have the resources to maintain larger AAA games in the series like World alongside some other sub-series. I still assume they'll announce one for Switch at some point, though. It'd be too stupid not to.
Pretty much every game Capcom has put on Switch has sold favorably compared to other platforms. I doubt the inevitable Team Portable/Generations MH5 based title will be any different.
That's ludicrous. World has sold >15m copies and is on 3 platforms.
A Switch Monster Hunter would almost certainly be in the top 10 for Capcom and most likely do better than almost every non-World Monster Hunter, but it absolutely would not "easily outsell" World.
You are still complaining about the mere idea of a new Monster Hunter on a Nintendo system. Just because you say you own a certain piece of plastic doesn't change that it obviously bothers you.
Wait until E3
But it would sell above 5 mil pretty easily
No way lol
But it would sell above 5 mil pretty easily
How many of those Resident Evil games are Switch exclusive? Or exclusive to any platform, for that matter.
MHW sale makes it clear that there are bigger MH market outside handheld. Why should Capcom move the franchise back to handheld? If anything, the Switch might get the downgraded port of whatever the next gen Monster Hunter is. The day of handheld exclusive Monster Hunter is over.
Because Capcom would not be choosing to support handhelds over home console, it would be making a handheld MH in addition to its huge 10M+ home console entries. It's not an either or situation, which some people seem to find very hard to understand. Capcom can have its cake and eat it, too. You will get your beautiful next-gen console MHW 2 with 4K and raytracing or whatever in 2021 or 2022. Why can't Capcom put out another MH for handhelds in the interim?
It's instant profit if they committed to a Switch game. There is literally zero risk of it being a flop. They also have games on mobile so it's not like having it on less capable hardware could hurt the franchise's newfound popularity.
It makes all the sense in the world. :p
Hell even a port of Portable 3rd HD ver. would sell a decent amount since it would be the West's introduction to the previous best selling game in the series.
That said, HD development is lengthy and expensive and Capcom has just now finally gotten on the level it has always wanted to be on with the big American and European companies. So they'll probably mimick them and have eyes only for the twins and PC.
They made a big push during the Wii and 3DS/Wii U days and were there pretty early with Switch but the Nintendo love story has probably come to an end after World.
It makes all the sense in the world. :p
Hell even a port of Portable 3rd HD ver. would sell a decent amount since it would be the West's introduction to the previous best selling game in the series.
That said, HD development is lengthy and expensive and Capcom has just now finally gotten on the level it has always wanted to be on with the big American and European companies. So they'll probably mimick them and have eyes only for the twins and PC.
They made a big push during the Wii and 3DS/Wii U days and were there pretty early with Switch but the Nintendo love story has probably come to an end after World.
Nobody is talking about 'moving the franchise back to handheld' or 'handheld exclusive MH'. The discussion is about whether the multiple teams Capcom has can put an entry on Switch in addition to, and without affecting, any possible (and let's face it inevitable) sequel to MHW's awesome success found on multiplat.
Not sure if serious or trolling but that's how many lobbies GU can display at once. It doesn't mean that's how many there actually are. By the same metric, World can only display 18 lobbies at one time (on PC at least), is that how many actual lobbies there are?
Why should Capcom fragment their development teams to make 2 different games when they can just port the same game to the Switch? It will cost far less money for them and Switch owners will run out to buy the port anyway.
Can they? If they could we would have MHW on Switch by now.
That you need to combine the sales of Capcoms best selling game on 3 different systems to somehow argue that a potential 5-7 million seller isn't worth the effort, just demonstrates that it actually ist very viable. Or are you really trying to tell us that selling similar to the PS4 MHW SKU on Switch is somehow a weak performance? That's similar to What mainline Resident Evil games sell on several systems combined. Adding a Switch version to their multiplatform strategy, just means adding an additional userbase, one that is similarly successful as PS4 as a whole and actually relevant in Japan, as your potential audience. And even If it's the revived portable series as a console exclusives on Switch, they can still add a PC SKU.
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why does that matter when a potential MH on switch can outsell a multiplatform RE? does it make a difference if the sales come from one or multiple platforms?
and there's no reason it has to be switch exclusive, it can be made for switch's hardware and easily get up-ported to ps4/xb1/pc.
the argument that a MH game for switch would be a waste of resources for capcom makes zero sense when they develop and publish other games that won't sell as well as that MH game. it's not a zero sum game, publishers fund and publish multiple games for multiple platform cuz they want multiple sources of revenue.
at the end of the day (and simplifying it a little bit):
- MHW2 on ps4/xb1/ps5/xsx/pc will sell 15 million, regardless of switch getting an MH game or not
- an MH game on switch would get them an ADDITIONAL 5 (very safe guess, most likely more) million sales
publishers don't easily pass on projects that would sell that much and make them that much money. doesn't matter if they have other games that sell 15 million or not.
Because there's no fragmentation, there's already a secondary design team in place and pretty obviously working on something. This is the team that made Portable 3rd and Generations.
MH Switch graphically will be the PS360 Monster Hunter that never was :)
What other third party Switch games have easily sold more than 18mil? (15mil if you don't count Iceborne)
That is a terrible analogy. Nintendo needs to provide different experiences for people to want their console. Capcom only needs to make money, there's no reason for them to do B if they can do A and make more money (especially when both games would be from the same franchise).
If doing B in addition to A would be more profitable than 95% of Capcom's other projects, then yes, there's plenty of reason to do it.
This is ridiculous. Monster Hunter World absolutely crushed the sales of any previous game in the franchise, so now they should go back and make an exclusive entry on a weaker console? In my opinion, part of the reason it broke out in such a big way in the west was the technical leap Capcom were able to make, so going back to Switch would negate that in a big way. Truthfully I also think the games just appeal more to the kind of audience you find on Xbox and PlayStation (in the west of course, not Japan). There's no chance a Switch followup would do as well as World, so why would they take that opportunity cost when they could just focus on a sequel? Not to say that one won't happen on Switch, but if it happens it's going to be a smaller budget entry with less resources put towards it, and it won't do nearly as well.
Franchise fatigue is a thing. And given how many people it takes to make a game these days, having multiple teams working on the same franchise doesn't seem like the best solution (MH is no COD). They have other successful franchises waiting for new entries.
I assure you it's not. I prefer the old style of play as it matched more with portable sensibilities (my preferred way to play). Console centric fans however like the new direction the series took and will continue to take.
So if the series is going to keep going in that direction, I personally don't care for it appear on the Switch since it no longer is my style of game 🤷🏾♂️. It's really just an admittance the series isn't for me anymore.
they already have multiple teams working on the MH franchise.
do you wish for them to stop making new RE/DMC/whatever games as well? those won't do as well as world either, and a monster hunter game on switch would sell more than those (multiplatform) games.
Nobody is saying 'do it instead of MHW2'. They have multiple MH teams, and even if a Switch entry only did what the 3DS games managed, it would still outsell pretty much almost everything else Capcom makes including various other multiplat IP. 'Not doing nearly as well as MHW' covers pretty much everything Capcom has ever made, but portable entries are still there in the top ten.
And because of that they should ignore a 50 million and growing userbase that they probably could get 7 million in sales?
They already have multiple MH teams. MHW was worked on while Generations was being made, then there's Stories, the mobile games etc etc, and yet 'franchise fatigue' didn't slow MHW down. It worked to the opposite in capitalising on hunger for MH games. This isn't a new concept.
Funny enough nobody talks about the potential franchise fatigue for RE with 4 games in 6 years.