User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-26454180-20150601041328/@comment-25275196-20150602100140

there's every chance that it won't see a western release, I'd much prefer if there was, but face it, almost every second MH game was only released in japan.

and along the lines of frontier, the new flagships did look like frontier monsters, plus the trailer had something that looked like tonfas, meaning this could be the western worlds equivilent to frontier, if it was on the wii u as well, because it's unlikely 3ds will be able to support that many players.