User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-1011548-20120105104806/@comment-70.54.112.127-20120105222855

If you're going to say that Monster Hunter's available for PS3, than it's already available for Vita in much the same way. Neither of that have original games, and so that doesn't imply that the Vita would get a new Monster Hunter game at all.

The main problem with your argument is that we're talking about adhoc specifically. Yes, Monster Hunter is available on Wii, PC, 360, and PS2... But those are online games, which as has been shown, are not as popular as the adhoc games. The original adhoc games have only been available on one system per generation so far: PSP for the seventh generation, 3DS for the eighth. The Vita's game is merely Vita's "backwards compatibility".

The transition from PSP to 3DS isn't a split. It's a generational transition. The DS is the only seventh generation system to outsell the Gameboy. Why aren't gaming companies they making games for the Gameboy? Capcom expects the PSP to die off as the next generation of systems comes in, so they've moved ahead.

You can say "well, they're making Monster Hunter for everything" but that's oversimplifying the pattern.