X and XX happened as stopgap solutions because there was no way MH5 would be ready by 2015 and this is prety obvious since X´s purpose was to be an allstar game, some kind of best of the franchise with minimal financial involvement.
"Internal rift" does not automatically mean shakeup unless you want to force some narrative
Not at all. There were rifts and they worked it out. Different opinions or not being being convinced at whatever point in time doesnt mean that things cant change during the development of the title.
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Eh as I said I doubt there were rifts or disagreements. As I said, MH4 was the only entry that didn't debut on home consoles.
My guess is that the general group of people doing "console wars" online are for the most part likely the same demographic (young(er) males), so i dont think theres really much of a difference in that regards. I also think that the majority of console owners (Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony) are also in this category if i'm not mistaken. But i agree that this isnt really the topic for this discussion, so i wont go much into it. I just wanted to comment on that =)
Would it be fair to call Portable 3rd as some form of G-release? Would it be expected that the potential upcoming MH Switch title would be "MHWG" in a sense, or that PS4/Xbox One/PC will also get a MHWG?
The games were quite diffrent though - Portable 3rd had a lot of content that wasn't in Tri and didn't feature the underwater battles which were a main selling point for Tri.
Well, you've seen those online reviews...
Thats true, i was just thinking in the sense of releasing. The "follow up" to Tri was Portable 3rd. We didnt see a TriG being released about a year after Tri like we've seen with other MH games. So i'm wondering if MH Switch will basically be like Portable 3rd in the sense that this will replace a potential MHWG, or if we will see two MH games releasing relatively close to eachother (MHWG can still come out a year before or after MH Switch though).
That sounds plausible. I wonder what will be released first, if MHWG will be released in Q1/Q2 2019, and when a potential MH Switch game will released.
It was so bad that Amazon had to deactivate reviews for the game.
Capcom specifically mentionned that there would be no G version this time
what if they actually make a G version and that G version is their work around Sony's Exclusivity?
Did they ever comment on that after releasing XX?
XX was released close to a year before MHW (and the developement of MHW started about 4 years ago i think), so i dont think they had such an agreement that Capcom couldnt release MH games before MHW. If there is an exclusive deal in place, i would assume that it counts from the release of MHW, and only being valid for a certain amount of time.
Personally I dont believe MHW was in "at least full" development for 4 years. ignoring that TFhat. Depending how contract is made, some few changes is all that is needed to bypass em. Nier 1 changed Nier Character model, additional versions (like say Gs) could also be out of the contract.
Japan only I tend to agree, but if one takes WW into account I can see MH Switch going beyond that (MHP3rd was a Japan only title).
Who knows. Personally, i feel that such strict contract wasnt in place (not being able to release another MH game on another platform almost a year before MHW). I agree that MHW wasnt in full force developement for 4 years. I just mentioned that to show that its been in developement for quite some time, and a potential contract between Capcom and Sony might have been done perhaps 2-3 years before the release of MHW.
Honestly it's probably a bunch of things.
Oh wait, Winning Eleven is in August?
