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No it’s not a new Monster Hunter game but a guide on Monster Hunter.
It answers the basic questions, and even starts you in the right direct for some of the more in-depth aspects of the game.

Go over to the Capcom Unity site and download the guide from there.

Following last weeks “threat” from Activision, Capcom has come out to support the PlayStation platform. On the US PlayStation Blog, worried PlayStation gamer commedie asked Shawn Baxter of Capcom if they are going to stop support the PS3/PSP in the future like activision is?

Shawn replied with the following

I don’t see that happening. Monster Hunter has sold over 8.5 million on the PSP worldwide

I hope this settles worried minds for now. And with the score at 1-1, let’s see if more will come out to speak and behind who they will stand.

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In Japan, Sony awards titles that are hits in Japan. In order to get these awards, they had to meet a certain criteria for the company. The Gold award is given to games that have shipped 500,000-1,000,000 copies. While the Double Platinum award is given to those that achieved shipments of one million through two million copies. Here are the games that were recognized for their accomplishments: 

Gold Prize: 

Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots (PS3) 

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)

Phantasy Star Portable (PSP)

Winning Eleven 2008 (PS2)

Super Robot Taisen (PS2)

Double Platinum: 

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP)

John Diamonon has revealed quite a lot in the comments section of this post on the Playstation.Blog. The latest is that he’s responded to a question with Monster Hunter in mind.

A commenter showed his frustration regarding Monster Hunter 3 being dropped on the Playstation 3…

Kxpuc27  |  August 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

sure it’d be nice for dead rising but come on..screw capcom for dropping MH3 for the PS3
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John Diamonon replied on August 10, 2008 at 10:51 pm

Don’t worry. We’re working on something for you US Monster Hunter fans.

What does this mean then? It could just be the Monster Hunter 2 expansion pack or that they could port Monster Hunter 3 over at a later date.

No one knows but if they reveal anything they reveal it.

Capcom recently told the gaming industry that Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G sold 1 million units in the first 6 days of release. On the first day of release, Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G sold a cool 670,000 units and has become the fastest selling game in the series.

Making it the fastest selling game in the series, really impressive since it’s not even a full game for the 1.7 million gamers who already own Monster Hunter Portable 2nd.

Retailer site Sinobi put the first day figures of MHP 2ndG at 670,000 copies, including 17,000 Hunter Pack G which comes with a special edition PSP. The amount is slightly higher than MHP 2nd’s 512,000 copies whose record of best selling PSP games in Japan looks vulnerable now at 1.7 million.

Great job by Capcom. All we need is a worldwide release.

Source: PSPHyper