It is today that Monster Hunter Wilds comes out around the world and just a few hours after its launch, the title of Capcom is already spraying records. On Steam Charts, we can measure the popularity of the game in direct time and when we put these lines, nearly a million players (987,482 very precisely) are already playing them simultaneously on PC. A historic record for the license which very largely exceeds the figures of Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise which had recorded 334,000 and 231,000 players simultaneously on Steam on the day of the launch. It is therefore proof that the phenomenon is now global and that the performances of Monster Hunter World in 2018 risks reiterating, he who has finished his race at more than 28 million sales. Of course, it will take a few days to measure the commercial repercussions of the Capcom game, including the figures on PS5 and Xbox Series.
If Monster Hunter is now an unstoppable event in the West, in Japan, the title of Capcom has reached a religious threshold for a long time, and it is not uncommon to hear that societies give days off to its employees so that they can play Monster Hunter at each outings. This time, it was the Pocket Pair studio, the developers of Palworld, who decided to make this Friday, February 28, 2025 on Friday, one day off to allow you to take advantage of Monster Hunter Wilds serenely. We now dream of this kind of initiatives in France …
