User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-184.38.5.102-20130105005339/@comment-4819590-20130105061246

^ Its still way to early for a demo, even in Japan. They basically admitted with the delay that they aren't nearly finished with the game yet. I'm fine with waiting though, I'm still fairly behind on 3G.

The concept artwork for this game is utterly amazing, and I would love for the game to match that. We still haven't seen a lot of the areas and monsters though, and even the places that we have seen, we haven't been shown all of the sections of those places yet. I think with the delay, they'll have more time to polish the game, work on monster mechanics, and everything else. It'll really give them time to tease the game out more slowly.

Also, just wanted to state that a lot of the Japanese commentors were guessing that the reveal on the 10th would be for a monster for a past game. I read everything from Kirin to Rajang. There's nothing that I saw in the tease that specifically said that it was a past monster though, but I guess that's where a lot of the comments were leading towards.