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I thought this was a decent article.
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Monster Hunter is a hugely mass-market game in Japan (and it's getting there overseas as well, especially thanks to the success of World and now Wilds), and it got there essentially by appealing strongly to teenage players who had aged out of Pokémon and leapt on the PSP versions of the game as something to play co-operatively with their friends.
Around the tail end of the 2000s, the phenomenon of Monster Hunter was unavoidable in Japan; every mall food court in the country had at least one table of teenage boys taking down monsters together on their PSPs.
The game now has a significant adult contingent of players, of course (as does Pokémon, for that matter), but those were its roots – and the affordability and accessibility of the PSP platform in the latter years of its lifecycle were fertile soil in which those roots were planted.
That soil now risks becoming entirely barren.

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