Monster Hunter Wilds' final game expansion rises with game losses

When Monster Hunter Wilds launched in February, it started incredible sales. Unfortunately, its success has seemed to have stood out since then – Capcom seems to be trying to modify it by releasing the earliest ending game content extension.

Sales data comes from Capcom's quarterly earnings reports, which include Slide presentation showing sales data From April 1 to June 30, the company's top 10 best-selling games. The speech showed that during this period, Monster Hunter Wilds sold 477K copies, only above the 389K copies sold by the 4-year-old game Monster Hunter Rise. Wilds is Capcom's 9th best-selling competition this quarter, and Rise is 10th.

It should be clear that even if Rise is four years old, these are not Gangbusters sales figures. “About the catalog title, while Monster Hunter Wilds is the latest champion of the series that was released in February this year, the previous title of the same series, Monster Hunter Rise continues to see sales growth,” the company said in Capcom's consolidated financial results. Technically, it's right, continuing to sell copies in this case, but calling it “growth” a little strong.

Last quarter, Monster Hunter Rise sold only 384K copies. In fact, during the game, sales of the game sold 725K in Q1, with sales of 640k and 691K in Q2 slowing down significantly. It's not shocking, especially once Wild has announced – if there's a brand new game coming, people will definitely stick with it.

What's more interesting here is that for much of the time after the release, rising sales are much better than Wilds's current sales. Just a few months after launch, Wilts saw a steep, steep sales decline. Released in the first quarter Capcom's record 1.0108 billion sales,,,,, Of these, 8 million were only in just three daysAccording to Circana, Wilds quickly became the best-selling competition in the United States. Although it still ranked No. 1 as of July 5, it did not even destroy the top 20 best-selling races in June.

Why did the wilderness experience such a bad thing? OK, though Initial review is goodIts final game content is very lacking compared to past games, so many fans of playing Monster Hunter with friends struggled over time. It also suffers from severe performance problems on PCs, specifically Not completely resolved yet. although New content and seasonsfans are so dissatisfied with the status of the game that some players are Go too far Obviously, harassment and threatening to harass and threaten it.

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This may explain why Capcom has Encountering the planned extension of the final game content From the end of September to August 13, the planned expansion will include new mission difficulties, new reward systems, weapon balance adjustments and other improvements. It's unclear whether this will solve the performance problem, but maybe it will frustrate those who are frustrated by Wilds' weaker final game.

We have to wait for more details to see if this is the beginning of a turnaround or if Wilds will be one of the long-term disappointing Monster Hunter champions. Meanwhile, if fans return to older games, there may be an upward revival.

Rebekah Valentine is a senior journalist at IGN. You can find her post on bluesky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Is there a story tip? Send it to [email protected].