Update 4:30pm PT 6/14/17:
The Monster Hunter Twitter page has made it clear that they simply have not made a localization announcement yet:
Just to clarify: our official response is we have not announced any plans to localize MHXX at this time. https://t.co/mI31mcrrvE
— Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter) June 14, 2017
Capcom has come forward with a statement to Gamespot stating that they have no plans to bring Monster Hunter XX (Switch) to the U.S.
If you were planning on picking up the title for Nintendo Switch when it launched in the U.S. you may have to purchase it from somewhere like Play-Asia, and suffer through Japanese text to get your Monster Hunter fix on Switch. Remember, Nintendo Switch is not region locked so you can play any language game on any language console!
We’ve got our fingers crossed that Monster Hunter will eventually makes its way West, but until then we’ll probably have to settle for Monster Hunter World on either PS4 or Xbox One.
We’ll update as we find out more.
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Incredibly disappointing, just means more hoops to jump through for me to play both
ALSO, that last paragraph might be miss-typed:
“We’ve got our fingers crossed that Monster Hunter will eventually makes its way West”
instead of:
We’ve got our fingers crossed that Monster Hunter XX will eventually makes its way West