{"id":377521,"date":"2025-10-27T19:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2171449"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:38:51","slug":"capcom-says-its-unable-to-implement-monster-hunter-rise-cross-saves-cross-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/capcom-says-its-unable-to-implement-monster-hunter-rise-cross-saves-cross-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom says it&#8217;s &#8220;unable to implement&#8221; Monster Hunter Rise cross-saves\/cross-play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/capcom-says-its-unable-to-implement-monster-hunter-rise-cross-saves-cross-play.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some potentially disappointing news for Monster Hunter Rise players; Capcom has revealed that it will be &#8220;unable to implement&#8221; cross-saves and cross-play between the original Switch version and its upcoming PC port.<\/p>\n<p>Following Capcom&#8217;s recent confirmation that Monster Hunter Rise would launch for PC on 12th January next year, players immediately began questioning how both versions might interact with each other. Some players wondered if they&#8217;d be able to team up with friends playing on a different platform, while others, eager to take advantage of the increased graphical fidelity on PC, asked if Capcom might provide a way to transfer potentially hundreds of hours of time investment from Nintendo&#8217;s console to PC &#8211; particularly after an official questionnaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/monster-hunter-rise-pc-switch-cross-play-cross-save-survey\">seemed to suggest<\/a> cross-play and cross-saves were features the publisher was considering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-10-11-capcom-says-its-unable-to-implement-monster-hunter-rise-cross-saves-and-cross-play\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-10-11-capcom-says-its-unable-to-implement-monster-hunter-rise-cross-saves-and-cross-play\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some potentially disappointing news for Monster Hunter Rise players; Capcom has revealed that it will be &#8220;unable to implement&#8221; cross-saves and cross-play between the original Switch version and its upcoming PC port. Following Capcom&#8217;s recent confirmation that Monster Hunter Rise would launch for PC on 12th January next year, players immediately began questioning how both versions might interact with each other. Some players wondered if they&#8217;d be able to team up with friends playing on a different platform, while others, eager to take advantage of the increased graphical fidelity on PC, asked if Capcom might provide a way to transfer potentially hundreds of hours of time investment from Nintendo&#8217;s console to PC &#8211; particularly after an official questionnaire seemed to suggest cross-play and cross-saves&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/capcom-says-its-unable-to-implement-monster-hunter-rise-cross-saves-cross-play\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Capcom says it&#039;s &quot;unable to implement&quot; 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