User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter Frontier Season Forward 3/@comment-190.37.255.158-20120427161605/@comment-173.189.140.215-20120518220032

Perhaps one reason CAPCOM won't bring this game to America in the foreseeable future is because of all the competition for games. Have you seen how many people play online for MHT? At most only 2500, usually less than 1000. Compare that to COD: Black Ops or Modern Warfare 3. Almost 30,000 people play that every day. Monster Hunter is popular in Japan because Japanese aren't so war-oriented as Americans (this is just a guess, though I would bet a few bucks it's an accurate one). The Middle East wars have made many Americans, perhaps subconciously, wanting to experiance it themselves. I was hooked on COD before but I ended up not having any more tolerance for dying every 2 minutes (I did have a few good streaks). I don't know if COD is available in Japan, but if not then it's certainly one plausible theory for CAPCOM's success.

-Digiquo