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Kakadu18 on 23 April 2021
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Darwinianevolution said:
Mandalore76 said:

Are you sure about that?  The best selling Monster Hunter on PSP that I see is Monster Hunter Freedom 3 with 4.9m sales.  Total shipments of World across PS4, XBox One, and PC are 16.8m.  Pretty sure 1 of those platforms would have to gone over 4.9m by itself.

YearTitlePlatform(s)SalesRef
Monster HunterPS2/PSP1,838,580
2004Monster HunterPS2315,555[2]
2005Monster Hunter GPS2223,025[2]
2005Monster Hunter FreedomPSP1,300,000
Monster Hunter 2PS2/PSP6,720,723
2006Monster Hunter 2PS2520,723[2]
2007Monster Hunter Freedom 2PSP2,400,000
2008Monster Hunter Freedom UnitePSP3,800,000
Monster Hunter 3Wii/PSP/3DS9,400,000
2009Monster Hunter TriWii1,900,000
2010Monster Hunter Freedom 3 / Portable 3rdPSP4,900,000
2011Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate3DS2,600,000
Monster Hunter 43DS8,300,000
2013Monster Hunter 43DS4,100,000
2014Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate3DS4,200,000
Monster Hunter X / Generations3DS/Switch8,000,000
2015Monster Hunter X / Generations3DS4,300,000
2017Monster Hunter XX / Generations Ultimate3DS/Switch3,700,000
Monster Hunter Stories3DS309,465
2016Monster Hunter Stories3DS309,465[2]
Monster Hunter WorldPS4/XB1/PC21,800,000
2018Monster Hunter WorldPS4/XB1/PC16,000,000
2019Monster Hunter World: IcebornePS4/XB1/PC5,800,000
Monster Hunter RiseSwitch/PC5,000,000
2021Monster Hunter RiseSwitch5,000,000
Total69,000,000

https://www.vgchartz.com/games/games.php?page=1&name=monster%20hunter&order=TotalSales&ownership=Both&showtotalsales=1&shownasales=1&showpalsales=1&showjapansales=1&showothersales=1&showpublisher=1&showdeveloper=0&showreleasedate=1&showlastupdate=1&showvgchartzscore=0&showcriticscore=0&showuserscore=0&showshipped=0

It's complicated to count considering Capcom kept making rereleases and revisions of their games, but if we look at it by platform, the handheld games seem to do better. The difference with World being the game could sell on three platforms at once, whereas the PSP and 3DS ones were exclusive.

These numbers for MHW are not just outdated, they are way way to low even for the time of the last update. On PS4 the game should be around 8M units iirc, 2M on XOne.