The price cuts combined with the recent launch of the immensely popular Mario Kart andMonsterHunter franchises on 3DS helped revive sales and Nintendo announced 2.37 M units sold by beginning of December.
The last console version available in the States, MonsterHunter Tri for the Wii, was woefully standard definition, and Capcom is planning to shut down the Tri servers a month and a half after Ultimate launches.