By giving them a far greater, more financially viable install base to put Monster Hunter on. Yes.

come on sony... you already have a lot of 3rd party support..... leave something for nintendo...

nintendo paid tons of money to make capcom having no plans to release this game on other platforms.
3-4millions on psp/vita,1.5-3.0 million xbox360/ps3:estimate an average 20dollar profit for every single copy=100-150 million nintendo must have paid
and that's the reason why "we sequel every piece of sh.. and port it to all platforms until we squeezed the last dollar out of the franchise-capcom" is not released.
the same story with squarenix' dragon quest.part 8 was the biggest selling ps2 game ever in japan but no more DQ to be released for ps360pspvita.

Where exactly does the Vita benefit Capcom at all?

- Lower userbase (much lower)

- More expensive development cost

They can sell far more Monster Hunter games on the 3DS at a cheaper dev cost. Why even bother with the Vita. Capcom isn't supporting the platform at all anyway.

The real reason honestly Sony even got a whiff of Monster Hunter was because the DS wasn't that great at running polygonal graphics. Now that the 3DS can do an adequete job of it, Capcom simply doesn't need Sony.

Japan's biggest 3rd party franchise should be with Japanese biggest selling hardware. To the victor go the spoils, that's the way its always been, where people crying this much when the GameCube didn't get Final Fantasy X or MGS2?

You mean like the 3DS suddenly didn´t get any Call of Dutys (the DS got 5 games) and the Vita got declassified ...?

It could have, yeah.

Like I said, the Vita needs Monster Hunter. Monster Hunter doesnt need Vita.

Edit: And PC ports on the 360 literally effects about 50000 people in the entire world. Its meaningless in the grand scheme of things especially when it comes to a franchise as big as Monster Hunter.

Monster Hunter games are how you sell systems to the Japanese - and Dragon Quest

Well boo hoo, honestly, Capcom doesn't owe Sony anything, Sony should be the one thanking Capcom for dragging the PSP out the irrelevance it was headed to.

Personally I think if the DS could've ran Monster Hunter properly, Capcom wouldn't have bothered with the PSP in the first place. 

The DS/3DS are Japan's platform of choice, that's just the blunt fact of it. The biggest third party franchise (well second biggest I guess) should be on that platform.

Monster Hunter isn't really a game where you want to divide the fanbase anyway, the whole point is that everyone has the same platform so the school kids can play together on the same platform. If 1 kid has the 3DS version and the other kid has the Vita version, they can't play together.

But Activision loves money. They would get more money if they made a 3DS game. Nothing is stopping them from making both Vita games and 3DS games, except Sony's checks

Us ninty fans have been hearing similar statements for years. It hurts. It really does hurt. I feel your pain fellow ps gamers