The business sense part people use around here is wrong. People who want to play this game either have 3DS by now or would get one when it's time. If the PSV gets a port then the sales numbers will be higher than the actual benefit is because those who don't have either device will probably get a PSV but they would have gotten the game either way, on the 3DS. Capcom is not interested in selling one handheld or the other for either company and all sales they would truly get from the additional workload with this move are some drive-by ho-hum might-as-well-cause-its-there sales from PSV owners.
What Capcom would do on the other hand is dividing it's user base on 2 devices because there is no way in hell Nintendo would allow crossplay to a Sony device. Capcom would also backstab those people who already jumped ship from the PSP in anticipation of an exclusive 3DS MH game. It also doesn't make sense from an investment standpoint (see NPV).
The only possible explanation I see is that Capcom decided to push the game back because it simply wasn't finished and decided to use the time to prepare a PSV port but I'm not sure if I wanted to piss off Nintendo for future portabe projects if I were Capcom. I'm pretty sure Nintendo treats Capcom like a VIP right now, making it as comfy as possible(CPP, publishing in the west, providing servers etc.) and those perks will be gone.
Ongoing bet with think-man: He wins if MH4 releases in any shape or form on PSV in 2013, I win if it doesn't.
