Capcom's best selling game ever continues to be a huge success for the Japanese publisher. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne launched last month and it's managed to move at least 2.5 million copies, but the expansion's arrival also seems to have had a positive impact on sales of Monster Hunter: World. The base release has now broken through 14 million units, taking shipments and digital sales into account. The 2018 title just refuses to stop.
Our last update on Monster Hunter: World sales came back in May, when Capcom revealed that the game had topped the 12 million mark. That means that in the space of about four months, World has moved an additional 2 million copies. That's pretty crazy.
We reckon Monster Hunter World and Iceborne deserve all the success that they get, but we doubt that even the most optimistic Monster Hunter fans foresaw these kinds of numbers. Are you still hunting? Lop off some tails in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com, via gematsu.com]
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Jesus, no one can stop this thing.
I'm happy it's selling this well, even if it's only to show the MonHun team that just releasing this game on handhelds was holding it back.
When Capcom announced World I thought there was a chance it could be huge. I didn't think it would ever be this huge, however.
And I still haven't got round to getting a copy
The game and Capcom deserves it as well, easily one of the best games of this Gen by far and it doesn't have that horrible stink of greed in it either.
Love it!... deserves every copy.
And the Peak player for September on Steam was 97,996... on PC!
And they do not even have the new expansion yet (and usual bump in players) like on PS4. Remember when some said this would fail. Nop!
Glad it's doing well, it deserves the success.
i can honestly see the horizon zero dawn sequel having a multiplayer component that resembles something like MHW. with the hunter's lodge already established within the lore of the game, i can see it being expanded into a social area where hunters gather to take on legendary quests - depending on whether they can design enough unique dino-beasts to make it feel worthwhile, rather than just having a tougher redmaw or whatever to hunt down.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy same here. I'm sure the game is great, but I'm worried for such a huge time sink when I have a huge backlog.
I hope capcom is making monhun 2 for next gen console, make the creature ai and environment more complex with no load time
I know there where a few people who said that MH would fail on PS4. 😉
That’s crazy, good for Capcom.
Still not entirely sure how a Monster Hunter game released on exclusively non-portable systems is able to sell at all, let alone in such large numbers, but kudos to Capcom I guess.
500 hours and counting, I love this game but sometimes I'm aware of how much time I'm spending on it lmao, when Iceborne just released my social life and my workouts took a big hit 😅
That's even more than Super Mario 64, which was the best selling game of the fifth console generation! Seems that there are more people playing games now than before
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