The Famitsu hype lists are basically as useful as taking a GAF opinion poll.
Agreed. Not sure why those keep being posted as Famitsu surveys only cover an extremely small and now unsignificant portion of the game market in Japan (even if you don't take into account mobile, which doesn't make much sense but for argument's sake let's ignore that elephant).
I mean, the audience that fill in those surveys are:
Total playerbase > "core" players > "core" players that actively search for information about games > "core" players that actively search for information about games and buy Famitsu > "core" players that actively search for information about games and buy Famitsu and actually fill in the survey.
Even GameFAQs daily polls are more relevant at this point.
Okay, looking at the numbers for Generations, if they expect the game to do maybe 20% worse, and are releasing it near the middle of March, then Monster Hunter XG as a 3DS only, Japan only title might fit that fine too.
I already posted that theory before, but I think we could be looking at MHGXG (3DS-only in Japan), then NX version in the second half of 2017 simultaneous with the west.