If you follow the news a bit, you should know that Microsoft has tons of studios and projects all over the place, as the takeover of Bethesda and Activision Blizzard shows. One of their goals is to fill their subscription, the Xbox Game Pass, as much as possible. However, not all licenses are within their reach. The contractual details and the precise sums are not known, but Microsoft must certainly pay sufficient sums to the studios as well as to the publishers to convince them to add their games to the Gamepass, since these are all lost sales. Considering the huge success of Monster Hunter World which exceeded 20 million units sold, this would be too expensive.
Microsoft’s Monster Hunter-Like
Over the years, different games have tried to compete with it, such as Dauntless, but not matching its success so far. It would therefore not be surprising if Microsoft tried to develop its own game in the same genre. And it would be. The information comes from Jeff Grubb, in the GrubbSnax show, and the information would have been verified by specialists with their own internal sources such as windowscentral.
Currently named Project Suerte, while waiting to find a commercial title, the game is inspired by Monster Hunter, it is even described as a clone of the license. This therefore involves fighting against giant monsters in single player or in small groups in multiplayer. The game is reportedly being developed by Certain Affinity, which has served as a supporting studio on titles like Halo and Call of Duty in the past. Development would have started in the summer of 2020. The game’s official announcement is currently scheduled for 2023, with a 2024 release.. This is obviously without counting on possible postponements, especially in these troubled times.
In the words of Jeff Grubb, the goal is to offer more variety in the games available on the Game Pass. Microsoft is said to be aware of the appeal of the genre and its potential for long-term growth.
For fans of the Monster Hunter license, this is certainly good news, for several reasons. The first, which is the most obvious, is that it may give another game to hunt between Capcom’s games. There are simply never too many good games to play (and never enough time). The second is that competition can only do the license good. Having a serious competitor can motivate Capcom not to rest on its laurels after World and Rise, and to seek to do better to preserve its piece of the cake. The developers of Certain Affinity may also have new ideas, which Monster Hunter could then take inspiration from. It is not uncommon to see competing licenses borrow ideas from each other, to the delight of players if they are good.
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