User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-70.54.115.173-20120307051146

According to people who have beat the game, the credits show the game's developer as Eighting. Eighting was also the developer of Tatsunoko Vs Capcom and Marvel Vs Capcom 3, though all these games seem to be overseen by Capcom's directors. This could be why this game didn't have much in the way of "new" content.

So if Capcom's outsourced this then most of the internal Monster Hunter team probably didn't work on this game... nor did the Portable series director. We also know that Monster Hunter 4 was in a playable enough form by late last year that a teaser trailer could be made out of gameplay footage. So the team is probably working on Monster Hunter 4, led by the Portable series' director.

So Monster Hunter 4 may even come out next year. Hopefully this means good things for its quality.