User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-6050823-20130621040559/@comment-4815503-20130621143209

This is an interesting development, to be sure!

I'm glad to see Yian Garuga returning-- not surprised, perhaps, but glad. I look forward to seeing it in action.

The mystery monster has me guessing, though. It really does look like a Tigrex in shape, but the color defies any of the known versions of the monster we have (perhaps worth noting, though, it does seem to match the color of your traditional Tiger). I don't think a new subspecies of Tigrex is comepletely out of the question, even though one already exists. The trailers and demos seem to be pushing old Tiggy as one of the game's more high profile monsters, and given the new mechanics of the game, a new version of Tigrex that can scale walls might be in order. The fact that the new model is clinging vertically to a wall certainly hints at that possibility as well.

Nevertheless, all we can do at this point is speculate. Hopefully we'll get some more info shed on the matter soon!