Monster Hunter Wilds Sales Plummet, Even Worse Than Rise
637k copies in 3 months, a small number after 10 million in the first few days
Capcom has published its sales data up to the second quarter of the year. All franchises seem to be doing well, with several titles selling over a million copies, especially Devil May Cry 5 thanks to the recent Netflix anime... Except for Monster Hunter Wilds. The latest installment in the series started with a bang, with 10 million in just three days from its debut in stores, and then nothing. The title only sold 637,000 copies in the subsequent three months. To give you an idea, even Monster Hunter Rise, its predecessor, surpassed it in sales, with 643,000 copies in the same period.
What caused this collapse? Poor PC performance? A content-poor and rather easy 1.0 version for the series' standards? Server instability? There's no shortage of things to point the finger at. Is it possible that Wilds can only hope for the inevitable expansion to recover? The game isn't bad at all now, with events and challenging missions, and another Title Update is coming soon. Perhaps the next report will be different, who knows.