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Anubian2000 wrote: Oh I see your point I wish I can answer that, but sadly I can't. Maybe I found the answer. Capcom refers to MH games that are not developed by the main team as "Spinn-offs" even if they are not real spinn-offs, like MH portable3rd for example.

Eventually seems that spinn-off or not is decided by lore\story\universe ... X\XX are setted in the same universe of the core games so they are core games too.