Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Should Avoid Landing Too Close to Splatoon 3

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Switch owners have a lot to anticipate thanks to major titles including Kirby and the Forgotten Land, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet filling Nintendo's 2022 release schedule. While the aforementioned Pokemon games aren't set to come out until late in the year, there's also plenty of multiplayer-centric projects in earlier time slots. Notably, Monster Hunter Rise's impending Sunbreak expansion and Splatoon 3 are both scheduled for summer 2022.

Many of Nintendo's biggest properties are single-player experiences at their core: platformers such as Super Mario and Metroid, as well as action-adventure games like Zelda. Yet the company's overt family friendly nature and consoles designed with wide appeal have also given rise to a number of multiplayer offerings, be they wholly original like ARMS or spin-offs like Mario Kart. Any of these games can have active players, but it would behoove Capcom to avoid overlapping with Splatoon 3 with its Monster Hunter expansion's vague release window.

Splatoon 3 Has The Opportunity to Finally Get Single-Player Right

Nintendo multiplayer games have long legs. Its Investor Relations department puts Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Mario Party, and three (dual) Pokemon games among the 10 top-selling Switch titles as of December 31, 2021. Monster Hunter may not have broken onto that list, but Rise was 2021's most-downloaded Switch game in Japan, and after its PC version launched on January 12, 2022 the game passed eight million units sold globally by January 18.

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