The game was in development for 4 years. When do you think they got dev kits?
Where did I say anything about porting MH:World?
The Switch will get a MH game, but they can't just click a button and have it ready. These things take time.
Where did I say anything about MH on the Switch being a good or bad thing? Pretty sure I said that Capcom should not split the userbase between consoles and portables.
As for why they're moving the franchise to consoles, they've hit their peak with their old market. The 3DS audience is only so big, and while the games were very successful in Japan, they were only moderately so in the West. They are gambling that this move will attract a much larger Western audience. This move won't risk the franchise as a whole, though, because they're going to release a Switch game after to appeal to the Japanese and Western handheld audiences (and in the meantime Japan is getting MHXX, so they're not even ignoring their biggest market). Just because one game is skipping mobile doesn't mean they're abandoning it. They're trying to expand the franchise.
This is a terrible way to expand the franchise and a bad use of resources to boot. My problem isn't MH not being on the Switch because I "want it". My problem are:
1) Capcom releasing different entries of the franchise on different platforms splitting the fanbase and making players have to hop around platforma to play their games.
2) Being inconsistent with the localization of titles causing distrust in the userbase. Really just a big middle finger to their core audience who actually gives enough of a shit to buy their games at all
3) Creating different games for different regions limiting the total reach of each game instead of building one game at a time and expanding its global reach
4) Total lack of transparency about the franchise to the Western userbase. It's fucking dumb that they are not upfront about intentions with the franchise.
5) This may piss people off but I think it's stupid to take a series that only blew up on handhelds and spend 4 years building a version for consoles on the hope that you are going to magically acquire more than 3 million new players world wide on totally new platforms with zero contingency. MH on Switch is not contingency if they fuck this up. They lose a shit ton of money if they dont do well with MH:World.
I said I think they are handling the franchise mad shit. I didn't say they are abandoning anyone.