Monster Hunter Wilds' open beta has been live on PC for less than eight hours, but it's already hit an appropriately monstrous number of concurrent players, even if a particularly troublesome graphical bug is stealing the spotlight online.
While the action RPG's open beta kicked off for PS Plus subscribers on PS5 earlier this week, over the last few hours, it finally became available for players on Xbox Series X|S and PC too. It was already obvious that it was going to be popular – yesterday, before it was even possible to play, around 23,000 concurrent users had the game open on PC, presumably just staring hungrily at the title screen. However, now that it's possible to do a fair bit more than that, that peak player count has shot up massively, and according to SteamDB, now stands at 463,798 – a record set seven hours ago, around an hour after it went (properly) live. There's a good chance that number will rise even more over the weekend, too, given that for many timezones, that record was set overnight.
