Monster Hunter Wilds' Struggling Sales Drag Capcom Stock Price Through the Mud

This is crazy to think when a game sells 10M copies

At the turn of the year, this was touted as the next behemoth title, 6 months later, I forgot it even existed. Fair to say it's been quite the anti-climax, despite the immense sales.

Not surprising considering the negative reception towards the game. It initially sold on the brand name alone but that doesn't help for the long run.

That's two big failures from Capcom now. First Dragon's Dogma 2 and now Monster Hunter Wilds. Capcom is Crapcom again.

@TruestoryYep Buddy it's only 2 games who's biggest issues were performance related. Capcom is not in their late 2000's to early 2010's phase again

Yeah, performance optimizations on PC should probably be a priority.

No excuse for a release this big to release in the state it's in. They need to retire the use of RE Engine for open world / large sandboxy games. Dragon's Dogma 2 also has performance issues.

And this is in a year where games like Stellar Blade are showing just how optimized console-to-PC ports can really be.

@TruestoryYep what are you even on about? Most companies wish they could perform as well as Capcom.

@Fizza Yup.

Hopefully the B-team is watching this unfold and the successor to Rise doesn't replicate Wilds' technical failings on Switch 2.

World + Rise did so much to boost the brand to megahit status, and now this is causing pretty severe brand damage and has killed their sales' momentum.

I have to imagine that Capcom will probably be making pretty huge changes to what tools they're designing their open world / sandbox games with going forward.

This was my most anticipated game for early 2025 yet I've gone on to spend my money on Clair Obscur & KCD2. After MHWorld set the bar at 90 MC, Wilds being at 88 right now makes it a "ooh I can wait a bit", 88 is far from a bad score and I know I'll definitely get it one day and enjoy it immensely. But Capcom doing this drip feeding and releasing the usual "massive expansion" later is making critics treat it like some live service game that would keep growing.

This is just temporary. Their stock prices will rise again once they released RE 9 which i bet it will sold like hotcakes. There's also Onimusha and Pragmata that have potential to sell well.

But outside those 3, i wonder what are new games that Capcom cooking in their kitchen. My personal wish would be a new Final Fight, BoF, Ghost n Goblins/Maximo, and Strider.

@Fizza The Edgerunners anime was a pretty big part of Cyberpunk's public sentiment turnaround as well.

inb4 Studio Trigger announced a Monster Hunter anime series

@B0udoir Yep some QoL mechanics just ruins games. I liked the tracking in World and was disappointed I could just find my target monster just by looking at the map in Rise. And in other games, things like items being sent automatically to your stash is just unrealistic. Fast Travel I still find somewhat questionable. QoL overall sometimes makes things cheap I feel.

@B0udoir I 100% agree. Sometimes having some friction in games is a good thing. When QoL “improvements” make it so it feels like the game just plays by itself, I’m out.

@Dijita @TheArt @B0udoir Tend to agree with all of you, but if Wilds had World's tracking mechanics, you'd 100% have some people complaining in the opposite direction, saying that tracking monsters becomes tedious and boring.

I think the reality is that, as is the case with any long-running franchise, you're never going to please everyone.

Wilds has some clear flaws in its design, but I do think the negativity has spiralled out of control a bit because of some key issues that still haven't been fixed (like performance).

I hope the 1-2 punch of DD2 and MH: Wilds wakes devs up that there is indeed a line in the sand when it comes to performance and optimization. That seems to be the corner to cut to keep operating costs down in order to compete in a market that also includes billion dollar behemoths like Fortnite, etc., but you can only take it so far in my opinion.

I enjoyed it but these games seem a little low budget considering the publisher and popularity. Graphically unimpressive and not exactly an engrossing RPG narrative. I'd imagine with these sales figures it's still very profitable even if the shareholders aren't happy - unless it was an inefficient project from the get go.

They made a lot of mistakes. It was way too easy, the performance is too sloppy, the game isn't pretty much of the time, and the controls/mechanics don't incentivize exploration (which is a shame because the detailed environmental dynamics go to waste). They also didn't go out of their way to make multiplayer w/ friends seamless and hassle-free which is just an absurd thing to be stubborn about in 2025.

The low difficulty was the biggest mistake. I suspect they believed that low difficulty could catapult MH to Smash Brothers- or BOTW-tier sales and it was a huge miscalculation. They dumbed down a lot of the weapons, set enemy damage too low, AND set enemy HP very very low. For the first few months, you were given a Rathian time trial as a sop. When AT Rey Dau couldn't cart me on my first try, I threw up my hands and I've played maybe 5 or 10 hours since then. MH isn't addictive when it feels like the monsters aren't a threat, and if it isn't addictive it doesn't get the word of mouth needed for huge sales numbers.

They are still going to do an expansion, so I hope they learn from their mistakes. Bring back some of the weapon complexity, make the game challenging from day 1 of G-Rank, and fix the performance even if you have to dumb down the environment. Stick to the new approach to the story because it was actually quite good aside from Nata's dialogue.

I played this at launch and didn’t really see too many issues with the games performance on PlayStation 5. I thought it ran pretty good in fact. However, biggest issue I had was how easy the game turned out. I predominantly run for Platinum Trophies, so I had set myself the idea that this was going to take a lot of time. I had 600 hours sunk into Worlds and most of that was hunting Gold Crowns during the endgame. This game however was a walk in the park. I hardly needed to play with people either, doing a lot of the hunts on my own. That certainly isn’t what I have come to expect with MH games. Once the best weapons and armour were manufactured, there never felt any more need to farm for other things and the endgame dwindled away for me. I can’t see myself going back for any reason and unless there are some major work going on behind the scenes at Capcom with the, I assume Monster Hunter Wilds “Iceborne style update”, I probably won’t be back to this version of the game now. Capcom needs to address the lacking RE Engine for games like this, they need to focus on making it way easier to play with friends and there also needs to be the necessity of meeting other people to play together. Make it feel like we need to partner up with people, but don’t just make the monsters weapon sponges with one hit kills, make everything feel meaningful. I really do trust Capcom to do things right however, they make missteps and usually find a point of correction moving forward with a game, but 100% priority right now needs to be making this game run really well on PC, because if they can get Steam Users back on their side, things will be a lot easier moving forward.

Capcom has to either create a proper open-world tuned fork of REngine (ideally with engine updates for both MHWi & DD2) or drop it altogether for another solution. It's just not working & they're starting to pay the price for it with long-term sales floundering after a strong start.

I dont know but i didnt buy it yet.

@ShogunRok The other game that still isnt fixed Dragon Dogma its a Pity these games are fine but there are so many games now i just dont have the time or money for everything.

Wtf struggling sales bro Capcom your game sold 10M ohhh s...are you tell Capcom will start pulling the SE move and saying the game underperform 😒

@Flaming_Kaiser Yeah Dragon's Dogma 2 ended up being a warning sign for Monster Hunter Wilds. The finished game did run a lot better than the beta (which was really bad) but it's still not good enough.

I think after seeing all the negative user reviews and the dip in sales, Capcom will have to take action. Hopefully it means positive adjustments to the engine going forward.

The problem is that it’s very much streamlined which alienates some longtime players while also being so streamlined that many new players are left asking “this is it?”

Along with performance problems and feeling short changed compared to previous titles, yeah I’m not surprised they’re struggling a bit. I love the game, and especially the palico (which I created based off my very real cat) but it has issues. Some glaring, some not so much.

@ShogunRok I’m hopeful this is the case. It’s a great engine, but the optimization of it reminds me of Tecmo Koei’s katana engine. For every strength, there’s several drawbacks.

The game in total sold 10 million copies, so why is this a bad thing? /gen

@ShogunRok Its a Pity because i know its a decent game. The fantastic Monster Hunter World was a blast i put 500 hours in that. And you can only make one first impression they have to make that trust and good will back with a new MH game.

I’m surprised sales aren’t always like this for the MH franchise. It’s playerbase is pretty hardcore into it, I’d guess most daily players would update to the newest game the day it dropped, isn’t it natural that sales would peak at release and after expansions seeing a surge of new players?

10M is awesome, how many can they possibly sell? 100M? 1B?