User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter: World Discussion/@comment-6050823-20171102200128/@comment-31029678-20171106145037

As far as I'm aware spinn-off are canon untill the developers clearly state otherwise.

Anyway how this entire debate started? I mean sure most of the lore isn't present in the game and it's told via other media and also in japanese, for western people it's really hard to obtein those informations, but why would the developers give us infos that aren't canon to the games? It doesn't make sense, it would be just a waste of their time.

Isn't the first case of infos told not by the videogame; for example the difference between Legendary pokèmon and Mythical pokèmon isn't expressed in the game but official sources says so.

Hopefully with World and its story Capcom will share those lore infos with the west too...