User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-186.29.55.199-20130616033305/@comment-26066195-20130617224956

If it does get released outside of Japan, it will probably take a year or two, just go to the other Monster Hunter game pages on this wiki and compare the Western release dates to the Japanese, most of the games took a year or two to leave Japan.