User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-1758220-20111023143018/@comment-765166-20111023145332

If I am correct, MH1 didn't do too well western-wise, which lead to MHG and MH2 being Japan-exclusive. Having the Port to the PSP, they tried again with Freedom 1, and succeeded better than MH1 did. they continued with Freedom 2 and this is where MH starts getting popular in the west. It's peak was during the time of Portable 2ndG / Freedom Unite, and MHTri did well as a console game. Portable 3rd did good too.

It's weird though if he was listing the western games then why is P3rd there? xP

Article guy should've done more research.