Trailer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsGVYFBxY88

Video looks great.  Way more colorful than Tri, though it looks like it's the MHP2/G engine again.

Have you played the others??

1. Sword and Sheild

2. Lance

3. Gunlance

4. Broadsword

5. Longsword

6. Hammer

7. Instrument...thingy thats name escapes me...

8. Dual Swords

9. Bows

10. Light Bow Gun

11. Heavy Bow Gun

Monster hunter is not new people.......rather a lot of people are new to it....

A LOT of content was cut from this game, and a LOT of content was put in. Same game at it's core but different monsters and equipment.

A PSP game ALWAYS gets announced a few months after the next game. You have to remember its been released in Japan for some time, so right about now is time for the portable announcment.

The last games pretty much took an entire DVD on the PS2.....there is a shit load of content, and i can only imagine they took out a lot of weapon types to make room for the better graphics.

That trailer looks incredible, for PSP game that is.

Maybe, but they could have waited until, say, May, to announce this. I don't care nor mind that there is a new MH on the PSP (even had it been a Tri port, thus making MH3 non-exclusive, such things don't matter to me). What I want though is for MH3 on the Wii to succeed (and for it to be a system seller), and what such an announcement does is prevent some sales that would have happened had this announcement (and the subsequent hype) not happened before MH3's launch. Would it have hurt them to wait 2 more months? No. Are there some irritated people at Nintendo right now? I am quite certain.

As to why it's not a port (if it isn't), very simple imo - it's their get out of jail card (see Nintendo, we gave you an excusive, we have abided by our side of the contract) despite their now potentially hurting MH3 sales, especially its system selling aspect.

And just to reiterate, no I don't mind the PSP getting its own version, that was inevitable, just the timing.

I was under the impression MHP anD MH2P were identical to their Ps2 versions in content.

4 million confirmed

Awesome! I think Monster Hunter is a series with a good frequency in releases. Not too long, not too short.

I have played all of the PSP Monster Hunter games. Seeing as how this will suposedly come off MH3 rather than previous portable games, expanding the weapons from 5 in the Wii version to 12 in the PSP one is ridiculous. Especially since Capcom decided to cut the number to 5 for balancing & tweaking issues.

Looks indeed good, but they should not have announced it until E3.