Capcom have issued an update on their best-selling titles and Monster Hunter continues to do rather well. Monster Hunter: Rise, the Switch & PC follow-up to World bringing Monster Hunter into the mainstream (and becoming Capcom’s best selling game in the process), has hit 9 million sales. This is only a few hundred thousand short of Iceborne, the expansion to World, which has hit 9.2 million ahead of March 31. World itself is now at 18 million units, while Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, a spin-off Monster Hunter with Pokemon-adjacent gameplay, hit 1.5 million.
Given Rise isn’t available on Xbox or Playstation consoles – which quite a few people own, in case you didn’t know – it’s a pretty big achievement. It’s still a mainline game, as the Nintendo audience has been very core to Monster Hunter for many years, but World was an aberration of unprecedented proportions, still being capcom’s best-selling game ever by a significant margin.
Other notables from the platinum games update (anything that Capcom has sold over a million copies of), via Gematsu, are Resident Evil: Village making it over 6 million and DMC5 getting to 5 million. The full list can be seen there, with even Street Fighter V getting some love.
Written by Ben Barrett on behalf of GLHF.
