User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-195450-20111022032336

I forsee a problem here. As most of you probably know, Japan makes much, much greater use of public transportation than the US, and when you take a popular game and put it on a portable system, you'll undoubtedly run into people playing it and team up with them to kill something. That's why MH has such a big appeal on the portable systems in japan, and why only the console versions have online play.

Because Much more of the USA is rural, chance encounters with people playing a game which already doesn't have the same level of popularity is much harder. Capcom should really realize this and either set up online play for the english release, OR work with Nintendo to create something like Ad-hoc Party. With Freedom, at least you could use that to play with people that weren't near you (right? any multiplayer PSP game works with it yes?).