It's entirely possible that one of the followup games of the fifth generation will be portable after the flagship title was console only.
Yeah and a simple look at sales data shows what the fans want. I first got into monster hunter with tri on the Wii. I enjoyed it but didn't put anywhere near the amount of time I put into it that I put into mh3u and mh4u. Portability for grind like games is everything. One look at my 3ds log shows the crazy amount I can play my portables. I can't remember the last PS4 game I beat
Yeah world is created with capcoms frameworks engine. It's an old engine that even worked on 3ds. Problem is the franchise if rumors are correct is a political nightmare
The crazy thing is that when capcom try and go for the western gamer it doesn't even work. Dragons dogma, dmc, and games like lost planet dont really pass 2 million global. The amount to makes these games vs making a 3ds games has to be a huge difference. The math just doesn't add up to make capcom look like a smart company.
Why do people keep saying this? The name in the rumor was wrong:
The logo itself says "Double Cross" on it. How does someone who actually has inside info see that, and nonetheless say the name is "Cross Cross" instead of what's plastered on the damn thing. They got lucky that the name had two X's in it, but that's all. If they had any degree of inside info, they would have actually seen the logo of all things and known the name was pronounced "Double Cross" and not "Cross Cross."
That they got such a big thing wrong and that that not only didn't toss the rumor into the garbage, but it's held up to somehow validate it anyway because "yeah, they got the pronunciation wrong, despite it being clearly being visible in the logo... But they kinda sort of got it half-right and were closer than anyone else, so it still counts anyway despite not being the actual name" and be proof that it's right just breaks my brain.
They somehow knew about all these backroom deals and drama and the like between Capcom and Sony and Nintendo and stuff and know how they all reacted to that, but despite knowing the juiciest gossip about the game possible they can't get the damn name right of all things and we're supposed to give them credit for it anyway as if that didn't happen? I don't get that. How do you know about backroom deals and moneyhatting and the like, but yet apparently never so much as saw the actual logo of the game (or have your source tell you the frickin' kana printed right underneath it that says the same thing) you apparently know oh-so-much about at the same time? That doesn't work for me.
And of course, that's ignoring all the other stuff being wrong about it, such as it being confirmed that World does indeed have all the weapon types and there's no hints of QTE events or anything of the sort thus far. It's garbage.
"I agree so you continue on the next portable. Mhxx is a controversial spinoff with the different battle styles and remixed old content from past monster hunters. Can't really expect it to sell like a numbered entry that's pushing the franchise forward.
It has the be incompetence from higher ups. Capcom was never this brain dead. Street fighter 5 situation I think had something to do with the tv deal. Capcom executives getting in the way of game development.
You have to realize that this has probably been in production since 2014. Switch was nowhere in sight and they made the decision to press onto home consoles with the "main" team. We'll see the XX team go onto Switch's next game.
RE7, SFV and DR4 all also underperformed though, and each to a greater degree than MHXX. Is chasing that audience at the expense of MH's established base really the wisest move?
I wish there was a home console that could also become a handheld for me to play monster hunter on.....
MHXX was released during the same period as the Switch's launch, which was why people consider it a lack of foresight from Capcom to not already having a port for the Switch ready.
In the west sure but there's a much lower barrier here (1-1.5m) so any loss in audience can hopefully be recovered/exceeded with new players being brought in. In Japan there's no chance of recapturing the mainstream base (3-5m) though, and even globally it's unlikely to hit those figures which makes me wonder why we just didn't get a consoles + PC + Switch MH5 instead to cover everyone. Now it looks like we might be returning to the split lines of the PS2/PSP/Wii days with the 3/4 team on World and the Portable/X team on the next Switch game (X2? World Portable? 5?).
