Before any announcements had been made, a Sony official said yesterday that Monster Hunter will be showing up on the PlayStation Vita in the coming months.

CEO of PlayStation France, Philippe Cardon, stated in a recent interview that had Monster Hunter been available during the Japanese Vita launch, the system would have sold much better.

 “The games available at launch in Japan do not correspond to the typology of the Japanese public. It lacks a particular game, Monster Hunter, scheduled for the coming months; had it been there from the start in Japan, the story would have been different.” 

Many say that the Monster Hunter franchise single handedly catapulted the PSP into many Japanese homes, so many in fact that other developers started creating games that imitated Monster Hunter’s addictive quest/hunting/crafting gameplay. Given the franchise’s system selling power, there’s no doubt that the PS Vita will get a massive sales spike once the game releases in Japan.

There’s no official release date as of this writing. We’ll keep you posted as more news comes.

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[Via Destructoid]