User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter: World Discussion/@comment-6050823-20170824191633

What made you finally move from a mainly portable focus to home consoles? And why choose PlayStation 4?

Tsujimoto: It’s a bit of a combination of facts. After having a few years of the series mostly being on portable devices, we’ve received a lot of feedback from players from all over the world that wanted to play Monster Hunter on their home console. The current generation of hardware is so powerful and high-spec that the timing really felt right to bring Monster Hunter to console for the first time in a long time.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/monster_hunter_world/b/playstation4/archive/2017/08/24/capcom-talks-bringing-the-series-to-ps4-and-going-after-a-mainstream-audience.aspx