In One Weekend, Monster Hunter: World Is Crowned the Series' Fastest Selling Entry Ever

I am a little surprised it has managed number one in the UK. Excellent game though. Can't wait to get back to it!

I'm really glad that it's doing so well!

Very cool to see their gamble pay off. Hopefully it makes MH a bigger thing in the West, only put 2 hours into it so far but love it.

Surely Capcom will be happy with these numbers, I'm sure it cost plenty more on dev. & marketing worldwide than the 3DS iterations, but it seems to have paid off, which is great news (though I thought RE7 did well yet they were moaning about those numbers). Do you know what the X1/PS split was, seen very little from XB while Sony really pushed it with plenty of ads/special edition PS4 etc?

That’s nice to hear, it really is. People kept saying it should have stayed on Nintendo and it will fail, yada yada.

Awesome! Great freaking game...

Who would've thought a well crafted MH game would do well on larger platforms? Well, everyone did, who wasn't upset about the platform move.

Nintendo fans are P***ED right now. Congrats, Capcom. Maybe this’ll be the work ethic they bring to all their games. Let’s hope Mega Man 11 makes it to this year too.

Nice.the little changes.the ps4 makes this monster hunter the best in the series ever.word up son

Would loved to see this on Nintendo Switch but Devs has said it’s not going to happen.... so will buy it for my PS4 Pro now then as been watching YouTube gameplay and it looks fab and my kind of game

Imagine the sales of a Mario game on all consoles lol

@shonenjump86 I think it should be on every platform at least at this point but hey we can say the same about Nintendo themselves

Nice that it's doing so well.

@JoeBlogs It’s on PC

Figure out how

I'm a big Nintendo fan and as much as I enjoyed Generations, I'm just happy to be able to play Monster Hunter on a big screen with a comfortable controller this time. It's great to see it selling so well, I'm loving it so far.

@AFCC Unless Nintendo loses like a few billion dollars the best you’re getting is PC...

Played this on psp many years ago ( was my favourite game) ...such an amazingly deep game.....playing on ps4.....the world is just amazing.....as are the monsters

@Derpie1 PC would be the last place where Nintendo games would arrive, trust me! But yes, I know this would never happen! I'm just saying imagine the sales!

@JoeBlogs would be pretty neat but Nintendo doesn't need that

@AFCC well on PC you can get Nintendo just well yeah

Very nice! Also the best rated MH at metacritic.

Well done!

I'm half surprised actually, I know 3rd party games sold best on playstation system, but not to this extent. But I'm glad finally monster hunter franchise received the recognation it deserves from the western (and asia) audience.

Also it's nice that psn usa gave 10% discount code for all games, I just bought monhun world and dragonball with it

Well done Capcom. You took an incredibly successful series and finally released a title on a platform that has been begging for it for the last 10 years. You also fixed nearly all of the issues from the previously successful releases. What a gamble! /s

Let's be real, could anyone truly doubt that this title was going to be a major success? It boggles my mind that anyone could somehow conceive of this title being a risky move.

Amazing numbers! Add an extra 3 players as soon as the PC version ones out too! It's great to see monster hunter without a dominating microtransaction system ruining things and people happily choosing with their wallets. Nice one Capcom

@NathanUC it is a risky move in Japan as this game doesn't have any local multiplayer. it will probably have done really, really well in the west where online play is king...but the japanese numbers will probably be slightly disappointing for them (add to that the relatively low ps4 install base in japan)

Very happy for them. PS4 was the platform MH needed to move to. To me Mh always seemed a bit....held back on 3DS.

@JoeBlogs well Nintendo would have to lose billions of dollars which would mean they’d have to have Virtual Boys-esc “successes” for a few console generations + all other ventures they do they would have to fail...

But that prob won’t happen

Other option would be Nintendo got bought up

@WebHead it’s cus it wasn’t targeting the Western Audience

It targeted... The Japanese Audience

@Neolit it’s because it was targeting the Japanese audience or Japan

And what’s popular in Japan? Portables. So what’s the most popular Portable in Japan that’s not a mobile phone

3DS.

And Capcom thus made bank for little cost.

I also remember that it was a huge mistake that was doomed to fail. Silly fanboys.

I wasnt expecting this to sell so quickly. And neither were the retailers by me. Went to pick up a copy over the weekend, but all the local stores near me had sold out.
Had to order it online now.

Some users here were really p***ed that Monster Hunter was coming to PS4, now I wonder what they are thinking about these numbers. xD

@manu0 Time will tell, but I'm certain this title will do immensely well; even in Japan. Monster Hunter has never had true local multiplayer anyways. Tri had some very limited split screen, but everything else has been Ad Hoc or online. Ad Hoc is antiqued in Japan when nearly the whole country has affordable high-speed internet (unlike America).

@Derpie1 no it isn't lol emulators don't get the game sales! Don't come with that bullcrap

Quite surprised (surprised since the playstation guys have been left hanging for i think a decade that the collective consciousness forgot about it and I didn't think that people would come to grips with the monster hunter series ) and very happy it's doing so well. Here's hoping they implement some if not all of World's improvements to future monster hunter games. I'm sick and tired of loading between maps!

@NathanUC huh? what does high-speed internet have to do with local multiplayer (and I include ad-hoc play in that category)? when you want to play together in one room high-speed internet doesn't really help you much.

@AFCC if you just wanna play the game & ya don’t care then there ya go

@AFCC Yeah, I think Nintendo would rather start again from scratch than depend on another platform. Nintendo failing as a company is unlikely to happen though, you don't survive for 128 year without learning to adapt. They managed to get things right with the Switch, and that will benefit them for years.

@manu0 Umm yes it does? Player 1 hosts a private lobby, player 2 joins that private lobby. Ad HOC was useful when internet speeds were lower and not always available, but they aren't as important when full online play is an option. It's the same reason true LAN parties aren't a thing anymore.

@bbq_boy That sounds about right. By the time it reaches PC; 30% of PC gamers will just complain about having been forced to wait for so long and will refuse to buy/play the game because of it, 30% will claim the game has found its rightful platform on PC, another 30% will complain about it being a terrible port. That leaves 10% who just want to enjoy a good game on their chosen platform.

Meanwhile developers are telling us their games sell better on the Switch. Bizarre. Anyway, proof perhaps they shouldn't have ditched PS3. Nevermind.

@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Indie developers. Switch is the new vita, the place to buy great indie games

That's great news. However, I did expect it to sell really well. I'm only a few hours in but I can tell this will be looong game. Simply creating a character took me well over an hour.

It's nice that we can just appreciate the series managing to achieve more mainstream success in the West without people posting obnoxious and childish comments gloating about the Nintendo system not getting it.

Rolls eyes

Turns out opening yourself up to a massive console audience isn't as risky a venture as people think.

@Derpie1 well yeah I know, but we were talking about sales here xD

@Bonbonetti the Switch is an awesome console with great exlusives (a bit overrated but ok)! And I for one am glad that they are doing well

It was a gamble, that paid off big time.

But I didn't expect such big sales so soon.

@YummyHappyPills A gamble for sure, but huge? Wii U vs PS4/Xbox One/PC. And Capcom expected the PS4 to do big numbers. PC as a platform is big too. The game has a name and reputation, it looks good in the trailers. Capcom isn't EA or Konami. It always had a good chance of succeeding.

It's not only the fastest selling Monster Hunter game ever, but the fastest selling Capcom game ever, beating out RE 5 and 6.

@Ralizah Hear hear.

@YummyHappyPills What are you doing here? Shouldnt you be at more mature places?

I do wonder at times will MH become a PS exclusive or a PS4/PC exclusive ala SFV?

In the future that is.

I'm going to go full fanboy and say it's already in my top 5 PS4 games.

I really hope it doesn't turn into an exclusive for PS as, in my opinion, it's a worse game than the ones on the Nintendo platforms. It's not bad by any means but it is so dumped down with so much less to manage and hand holding everywhere while the monsters are barely any more challenge. I mean I get that it's targeted at the western audience and I don't mind letting PS get an iteration as well but I fear that this will become the standard now and that is sad, well for me as I said. I can still have my fun with it I guess but in no extent as the 3DS ones or the WII/WiiU

Lots of comments on this game being "exclusive" just showcases the marketing effect.

I don't think it's dumbed down at all. I would say most of the changes are quality of life things that just make the game better.

The game is awesome so I'm very happy to see it selling well. Still don't know if I'd say I'm surprised. It was a gamble but at the same time Capcom has done an excellent job advertising it and the great reviews didn't hurt it either. The series did also make its debut on PlayStation so while this move was somewhat risky it's not like back in the early 2000's when Capcom flipped the bird as PlayStation owners and made Gamecube the home of Resident Evil. The MH series has done well on PS2 and PSP, it just never reached that audience outside of Japan. Even on 3DS it was still considered a more niche title. We'll see if World actually changes that. I'll say as somebody who's pretty new to the franchise there are some things that are overwhelming but as I get more used to the game, the more addictive it is.

@CK97 Not this one, never cared at all for MH. And you have no idea where MH5 will end up. Sony fanboys sure are insecure, seeing this as some massive "victory and reclamation" , with the imminent death of Nintendo around the corner.

Im glad its back on PS, i've been rooting for it ever since i played MH Dos on PS2 back in 2007.. im on HR6 now and so far its freaking amazing

This game is too good.

Well deserved. It's amazing to think that only 3 days in, MHW now accounts for 10% of the series total sales. Bear in mind there's at least 30 Monster Hunter games - it's hard to tally them all up since some western releases were different from their Japanese equivalent, like we went straight to MH4U instead of MH4, yet there's no game called MH4U in Japan.

@Gamer83 Absolutely spot on. People don't always seem to realise that it started on Sony platforms. MHW is basically Monster Hunter 5. Like Pokemon, there are generations and this is Gen 5. MH1 and MH2 (aka first two gens) were on PS2. MH3 was announced for PS3 but was cancelled for some reason, possibly due to an exclusivity deal with Nintendo as it then shifted to Wii. Then MH4 was on 3DS. So out of 5 generation-starting games, 3 are on Playstation, one's on Wii but was going to be on Playstation, the other is on 3DS.

And yeah, on 3DS it never really broke out over here or America. There's about 23.5 million 3DS in North America, yet the fastest selling MH in North America. MH4U, only sold 290,000 in the first month there. Some quick maths reveals that means only 1.2% of 3DS owners bought the game.

That said, its lifetime sales in Japan is about 3 million and there's about 24 million 3DS there, so it still means 84% of 3DS owners in Japan didn't buy the game. Given that MH is basically the CoD of Japan - with Dragon Quest maybe being its GTA? - that's pretty poor. I guess it shows how many 3DS owners are much more casual gamers that are sticking just to Nintendo games and casual games.

@EVIL-C it’s ok bro. Just admit you’re a little emotional Capcom isn’t failing without Nintendo. Your response tells it all to me, don’t deny it.

According to Famitsu, Monster Hunter World has sold 1.35 million copies at launch in Japan, boosting PS4 sales to 140,000 units. This makes MHW the best selling PS4 game ever in just 3 days. PS4 saw its highest week of sales ever excluding its launch week back in February 2014.

Amazing.