User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-200.114.60.254-20120728034216/@comment-4014165-20120728073525

When I saw the original pictures I was 90% sure it was just hunter blade with a few photo edits to make it seem more like monster hunter.

Now Iv'e seen these pictures I'm a more convinced that this is beta screen shots of a PS Vita monster hunter. The rathian looks like the newer gen rathian, you got gen 3 silver rathalos (But the colour seems to have been made to look a bit more like the gen 2 shading), Classic icons like pitfall trap, paintball and potions, The HUD is fairly similar, Classic sharpessness bar and bowgun load. Also the new maps are only 3 zones or so which would fit quite nicely into capcom saying that MH4 is going to be more open world.

If it is a fake then the guy who made it had a large amount of time on his hands and knows the series well.

Only things which make it seem less likely is that characters have names other than Capcom1/2/3/4. Also the map display colours seem like they have been kept the same which is strange for the series.

This game does look very far in development though, so maybe this could be confirmed at TGS then come out in December like TriG and portable 3rd