User blog comment:Plexioth- xD/Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate/@comment-1011548-20120105104806/@comment-70.54.112.127-20120105192924

The second AWC was right: it was pure speculation from a Japanese magazine.

Beyond that, there's two things you should bear in mind regarding Monster Hunter for the Vita. First, the Vita is really not doing well at all right now.. Its sales started off worse than the 3DS' did, then rapidly dropped. After the first week its sales went down nearly 80%, then more than 40%.

The 3DS already had Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 announced when we heard about Monster Hunter Tri G and Monster Hunter 4. Those games have sold a million copies before Tri G. There was already that reason for people to buy the 3DS. The Vita has no games that have consistently brought in millions of sales in Japan.

The other thing is adhoc. The best-selling Monster Hunter entries have been the ones that have adhoc, not online. That works because all of the adhoc Monster Hunter games are on the same platform, so everyone with that platform can play with each other. If Capcom produced a Vita game, it could divide the fanbase: some people would only play a 3DS, some people would only play a Vita. Now you have two games that won't communicate, and two communities who want a new game for their platform and won't buy it for the other one.

It makes more sense to try to move the entire Monster Hunter fanbase to a single replacement platform. Two Monster Hunter games from the 3DS means that they're probably going to all be there for the next five years.