Capcom has introduced a significant gross sales milestone for the Monster Hunter collection as an entire, which seems like a becoming birthday current for the franchise’s twentieth anniversary.
In a press launch, Capcom reveals that Monster Hunter has crossed 100 million gross sales throughout the whole franchise, a determine to which entries like World and Rise, in addition to their respective expansions, have considerably contributed.
In reality, a fast look at Capcom’s “Platinum Titles” checklist, which celebrates Capcom video games which have bought greater than one million models, reveals that Monster Hunter World and Monster Hunter Rise are the 2 best-selling video games within the studio’s historical past.
In accordance with Capcom, Monster Hunter World has bought over one million copies annually for the reason that recreation was launched, and gross sales for the sport now stand at greater than 25 million models (if the Iceborn Grasp Version model can be counted).
Monster Hunter Rise, in the meantime, which was launched again in 2021, has bought “over roughly 2 million models yearly” since its launch, and its growth Sunbreak, which was launched the next yr, has executed the identical.
Capcom says that along with the Monster Hunter Wilds announcement made final yr, these figures have helped drive the Monster Hunter franchise to its 100-million-sale milestone. Extra Monster Hunter Wilds information is coming in summer time, too, so maybe curiosity within the collection will probably be renewed as soon as once more then.
The Monster Hunter collection started all the best way again in 2004 with the unique Monster Hunter, and lots of sequels and spinoffs adopted, spanning 4 console generations.
In addition to the common action-RPG collection, Monster Hunter has additionally dabbled in turn-based RPGs and Pokemon Go-style augmented actuality cellular video games, amongst different genres. It is also made the bounce to live-action function movies and anime, in addition to crossing over with franchises just like the nostalgia-riffic Zoids.
We’ll be taught extra about the way forward for the Monster Hunter franchise within the coming months. For now, although, in case you’re a Monster Hunter fan, you may relaxation straightforward within the data that you simply’re removed from alone.
