User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-98.206.196.226-20120228221017/@comment-70.54.115.173-20120229011057

The thing is, whereas conferences like E3 and Captivate make sense, there's also a lot of people who have really unrealistic ideas. Monster Hunter 3G will almost certainly not be announced at Nintendo Direct: that's mostly a Japanese show. The European show was just a subtitled version of the Japanese one with warnings that the localization plans of the games were not confirmed. The Last Story being announced at the American one was a huge surprise as Nintendo of America had never given information that Nintendo of Japan didn't in the last two videos. They didn't even have an American video to match up to the second.

It's a good idea to take a certain public event as a cut-off point. But it has to be an event where it's reasonable to assume that the game will be localized. Nintendo Direct was never one of these. Shows that don't focus on the public or America aren't going to be one of these. The people who don't realize this make it look like expected an an announcement at other events are unreasonable, when it's only those people specifically who are unreasonable.

Don't forget that Monster Hunter games generally take around six months to localize. After E3, that time has passed, so that's also a good measure for that reason.