Capcom will be "Looking at how we can Support the Switch"

Monster Hunter: World is doing quite well, having recently shipped 6 million units worldwide—making it the fastest-selling game Capcom has ever made. It deserves the praise it’s receiving, of course. I personally can’t get enough of the tracking, the slaying, and the wearing of dead monster parts… but while the experience is limited to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One users now (and PC players in the distant future), Nintendo Switch fans are currently left in the dust.

In a recent interview (which was reported by Kotaku), Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto addressed the lack of monster hunting on the Switch. And his response was… pretty much exactly what you’d imagine.

“We’re aware of that request, however, taking into account various conditions, bringing Monster Hunter: World now for release is difficult. The reason is that the Switch has different functions from other stationary consoles as well as different players. Each game console as its own characteristic, and it’s necessary that we, as game makers, adapt to that when making [a game].”

It was a bit surprising Capcom wouldn’t have leapt on a Switch port immediately, as they have a pretty good history of actually releasing games from this series on Nintendo consoles. While the first Monster Hunter was a PlayStation 2 game, Monster Hunter Tri, Monster Hunter XX, Monster Hunter Generation, Monster Hunter Stories, Frontier G, and Monster Hunter 4 were all released for Nintendo consoles. World, of course, might have been a harder ask - it’s a brilliantly good-looking game and the Switch might have had a problem running it, and there’s also the fact that the controls don’t seem as if they would translate well on the Switch’s hardware.

But hey, Nintendo is doing too well for them to ignore outright, and he ended on this note: