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How many units will Monster Hunter World sell lifetime?

3 Mio 17 20.73%
 
4 Mio 20 24.39%
 
5 Mio 11 13.41%
 
6 Mio 8 9.76%
 
7 Mio 5 6.10%
 
8 Mio 5 6.10%
 
9 Mio 1 1.22%
 
over 10 Mio 15 18.29%
 
Total:82

I’m genuinely surprised at how pessimistic the people on this forum are for this game.



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Breaking 5 million is a tall order, but it's possible, especially since it's a multiplat. That said, I don't think it will get that high. 2-3 million is my estimate.



Medisti said:
Breaking 5 million is a tall order, but it's possible, especially since it's a multiplat. That said, I don't think it will get that high. 2-3 million is my estimate.

How is 2 million even possible?? rofl

Please breakdown by region and console to explain.



I would say 4 million... might get a proper hype outside japan... im looking at you europe... but yeah on the go for mh in japan is kinda big deal apparently according to my cousin



 

Medisti said:
Breaking 5 million is a tall order, but it's possible, especially since it's a multiplat. That said, I don't think it will get that high. 2-3 million is my estimate.

It will be near 2M in Japan alone.



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Boutros said:
Medisti said:
Breaking 5 million is a tall order, but it's possible, especially since it's a multiplat. That said, I don't think it will get that high. 2-3 million is my estimate.

How is 2 million even possible?? rofl

Please breakdown by region and console to explain.

I don't think I need to make too much of an essay of it, lol, but I looked at the series sales history and 2-3m is the average. It rarely breaks a million in any region but Japan. The vast majority of sales will come from Japan where the PS4 isn't doing as well (though it will boom for a bit with the release of World, the sales potential there is currently much lower than on 3DS) and Xbox One is non-existent. Console MH games have never sold as well, even in Japan, though this could buck the trend. The PC port isn't a factor until much later, since it was delayed.



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If it's ever ported to the Switch (which I think is more plausible than it first seemed given recent comments from Capcom) it'll blow past that. Otherwise, I'm not so sure... it definitely has a shot but I don't imagine the Xbox community will be too helpful.

8 million is a lot of games for any franchise; it would be fun to see this really catch on in the west with console owners, but I'm personally just going to wait until either a Switch port or the next Switch MH title as it just feels like a great portable franchise to me.



TheGamer_1995 said:
I’m genuinely surprised at how pessimistic the people on this forum are for this game.

^ this.



TheGamer_1995 said:
I’m genuinely surprised at how pessimistic the people on this forum are for this game.

45% of the polled are predicting over 5 million sales, considering only one Monster Hunter game has sold more than that, I don't see how it is pessimistic. 

Probably, on a sales website you're going to have people extrapolate sales based on prior data, rather than speculation.