The Monster Hunter franchise from Capcom continues to go from strength to strength as the publisher has announced the series has now sold over 100 million copies across its many entries. Fuelled by recent entries like World and Rise, it sits in prime position to capitalise on the series' growing popularity in the West with Monster Hunter Wilds launching in 2025.
Capcom confirmed that Monster Hunter World remains the best-selling game in the series at over 25 million units sold, and since its 2018 release, the game has "consecutively sold over one million units each year". As for Monster Hunter Rise, it's sold more than 15 million copies while its Sunbreak expansion sits at eight million.
The publisher released some commemorative artwork to mark Monster Hunter Rise's updated sales numbers:
The post reads: "Monster Hunter Rise" has sold a total of 15 million copies, and "Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak" has sold 8 million copies! What's more, the series has now sold over 100 million copies! Thank you to all the hunters for your support! We hope you will continue to support the Monster Hunter series!"
Are you one of the 100+ million owners of a Monster Hunter game, and are you looking forward to Wild landing on PS5 in 2025? Share your support for the series in the comments below.
[source capcom.co.jp]
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A total contrast of Square Enix's latest gaming sales report with Final Fantasy.
Been playing Monster Hunter since the PSP (MHFU will never die). Enjoyed both World and Rise so happy to hear this
Nice only took World and Rise to make MH a popular series.
Been playing MH since Freedom 1 on PSP glad it’s finally being a well known series
@Kanji-Tatsumi
Same I played Unite for years till Tri came out
I really hope MH Wilds delivers, it's the one game I want to see how it will function on the RE Engine.
Oh I thought rise would sell more since it's on all platforms. Maybe it would have sold more if it supported cross platform and cross progression.
I only ever played the first one and then a little bit of world at a friend's. Definitely going to be getting Wilds when that releases
Making Rise multi-plat was definitely the way to go
Those are some insane sales figures for World and Rise. Well deserved. Probably my second favourite franchise at this point.
Still the best capcom franchise, and insane numbers for mhw.
Hope Wilds is a knockout
Super excited for Wilds! World was my 1st MH and I loved it. Rise wasnt bad.
@CutchuSlow Its a scaled back Switch game so it was never doing World numbers.
For a series I never played until World, those are insane numbers.
God. Back when I picked up this strange-looking PS2 game called "Monster Hunter" and got the urge to buy it immediately, I'd have never have thought it'd reach this level of popularity.
Absolutely awesome. World was incredible. Rise was definitely a step down but Wilds is where World's true sequel lies.
Still need to play World this year while it's still active. One reason I tend to play games at launch is that I often don't get to them if I wait years down the line, like I've done with World.
Absolutely loved MH4U and Rise, though.
Wilds is my most anticipated game, this year and next. Assuming it’s not broken on release it will be my most played game. And my GoTY. I’m certain.
Monster Hunter could've saved the Vita all by itself.
N.i.c.e. i especially enjoy monster hunter world.its such a amazing game.the heavy bowgun is so much fun.word up son
Tried but never really got into the series until Rise. Love that game. Looking forward to Wilds.
MHW is amazing, I have spent more than 1xxx hours on it.
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