This logic is flawed. By this logic, monster hunter generations actually monster hunter 5. It had lots of new monsters, new locations, new mechanics. You could play as a cat! That’s next gen for sure.
Monster hunter world must have been the spin off then because….
So MHR is actually MH7. Do you see how this falls apart now?
How do you view the relationship between Monster Hunter: World and the other Monster Hunter games? Is this a spinoff, or a main title?
Ryozo Tsujimoto: This is the next main Monster Hunter game. Our Osaka team is working on it. We've brought in some people who are more familiar with next-gen technology to come in and help us adapt it for the current generation of consoles.
The producer already confirmed himself that MHW is 5. Rise is just a spin off of 5. Just like MHP3rd was a spin off of Tri, and Generations was to 4.
That last quote just confirms that MH World is a mainline entry, just like Rise.
And sure! I agree with your first statement! That's why Capcom ditched the numbers and simply uses a subtitle for all their mainline entries, like Zelda does. Or is Skyward Sword, one of the most disliked 3D Zelda, a spin off now? lol.
Rise has a lot of new monster, has completely new and game changing feautures to gameplay, new locales, etc. Sure, it has some returning monsters inside it, but so did World if I'm not mistaken. So does that make World a spin off? Of course not lol, because that logic is flawed.
Anyway, looking forward to what Capcom does to mainline MH after Rise was such a wonderful entry.