Monster Hunter Wilds is just two weeks away, however that hasn’t stopped its predecessor from persevering with to promote like hotcakes, shifting an entire bunch of copies even seven years after its preliminary launch.
Yep, Monster Hunter World continues to make financial institution for Capcom, it appears, as Automaton Media (by way of IGN Japan) reviews that it managed to promote over a million copies between October and December final 12 months. It went up from a reported 27 million copies offered in September, to twenty-eight.1 million in Capcom’s newest monetary outcomes name. Sales of enlargement Iceborne weren’t far behind, with round an additional 900,000 items shifted within the closing quarter of 2024.
I reckon that was positively helped by Capcom pushing some tidy reductions of the sport all through November and December, bringing the bottom sport down to only over £8 or simply underneath $10. But I additionally reckon, extra broadly, that it is all the way down to the astronomical ranges of hype round Wilds that, at the same time as a veteran Monster Hunter fan, I may’ve by no means anticipated.
After all, it was the preferred sales space at Gamescom by far final August, with 10-hour queues to play taking over a ridiculous quantity of area on the showroom flooring, disrupting different cubicles on the primary day earlier than Capcom lastly needed to deliver the hammer down and convey the queues to a (nonetheless eye-watering) four-hour wait, turning would-be hunters away when the road bought too lengthy. It’s additionally at present probably the most wishlisted sport on Steam, beating out some huge-hitters like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Elden Ring Nightrein.
Those final three months additionally occur to coincide with the primary open beta for Monster Hunter Wilds—an opportunity to play the sport that did not require flights to Germany and slowly shuffling via a queue for half the day. While it was an ideal likelihood to play, it was additionally a nightmare efficiency for lots of PC gamers due to some poor optimisations, which additionally has me questioning if that drove newer gamers over to World to get a greater look of what Monster Hunter is all about.
Now I’m largely speaking about World right here, because it’s nearer to Wilds in its complete shtick, however the more moderen Monster Hunter Rise hasn’t been performing too badly, both. It offered round 700,000 copies in the identical three months, which is not unhealthy going in any respect in the event you ask me.
It’s really actually cool to see the Monster Hunter hype practice chugging full steam forward proper now. More folks attempting one of many coolest motion sport sequence out there’s by no means a foul factor, and I hope sufficient of these new consumers appreciated World to make the leap over to Wilds later this month. Even in the event that they did not, I do not suppose Capcom is fretting an excessive amount of. Producer Ryozo Tsujimoto mentioned he is “very assured” that the sport goes to do properly. Judging by the entire above, I consider it.
