Monster Hunter Wilds
At the end of February 2025, Capcom will release the follow-up to its two most successful games to date: Monster Hunter Wilds is already casting such a shadow that Sega has brought forward the release of Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii by a week to avoid the Monster Hunters.
Capcom has produced many very successful games in its long history. However, the company's most successful game was released not too long ago and is not from its most successful franchise, Resident Evil (167 million units sold). The game in question is Monster Hunter: World. Released at the beginning of 2018 for PC, PlayStation and Xbox, the action role-playing game has now reached 21.3 million unit sales. Unit sales include Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition (bundled with the Iceborne expansion) is 28.1 million units. The Monster Hunter World: Iceborne expansion alone has sold 14.9 million copies. Monster Hunter Rise, which debuted on Switch in 2021 and was later released on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, is also Capcom's second best-selling game with 16.7 million units sold, and the expansion Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has sold a further 9.4 million units. These are impressive sales figures that only became possible after Capcom adopted a multi-platform release approach with Monster Hunter World; previously, the games were only available on Nintendo or Sony (PSP) consoles. And upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds is already making a name for itself, with 463,798 concurrent users counted on Steam during the beta test in November 2024 and 258,737 in February 2025. Even the benchmark reached almost 49,000 CCU on Steam.