User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate Discussion/@comment-184612-20170526011341/@comment-27465049-20170526160331

This means that you'll have to start over from the ground up, unless there's a way to transfer your mhx save file, which I doubt there is.

Really wanted a localization rather than a Swicth version though. It would've been better to start off the 5th generation with the Switch.