User blog comment:.Rakle./Monster Hunter Online Information Blog Post/@comment-99.113.111.84-20130430063510

Look, not to be a kill joy or anything but please stop posting comments about how there is a western market that in reality just isn't there.

I say this because you have to look at the overall population of the united states and the total number of copies sold and compare it to the data from within japan, the resulting conclusion is that even though mh3u did sell ok in the U.S. it did not sell anywhere near as well as the other recent releases, this combined with the fact that most people in the united states have not even heard of monster hunter, and the fact that Capcom is a company and they are looking to make money, not to please the tiny western market in which there is an equally tiny profit, it is in there best intrest to spend their money developing new games to release in japan rather than translations and the  production of localized copies.