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Kyuu on 26 February 2025
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LegitHyperbole said:
Kyuu said:

World opened with 2 million copies sold in Japan on PS4 alone. How far behind that do you expect Wilds will sell on PS5 and PC combined?

I wouldn't read too much into MediaCreate/Famitsu's numbers without taking into account PS digital and PC. Street Fighter 6 had an abysmal opening and disappeared from the physical charts quickly, and yet we know it passed a million.

Edit: I keep forgetting about Xbox. It should add some 50k+ lol. World didn't launch on Xbox in Japan.

Is it releasing on Xbox? Non gamepass? Xboxians are starved for a game like this, it's co-op and MP focused so it's a perfect Xbox costumer game. I guess this is where we find out how strong Xbox is right now and Indiana Jones could have been just a title that didn't aim for the core xbox players. 1 million Xbox, is that possible or are they just gamepass gamers now or have already migrated to Sony, I thought Doom would be the test but we should see what's going on under that roof now if Capcom breaks down the sales for us 🤔 

World sold about 4 million on Xbox One worldwide so it should be easy for Wilds to pass a quarter of that. Unfortunately, Capcom doesn't do a platform breakdown for individual games. We got a leak for World at the time it shipped 16~ million which showed PS4 version comfortably selling the most (due to Japan), and Xbox being a very distant 3rd and nearly irrelevant for Iceborne.

Sephiran said:
Kyuu said:

World opened with 2 million copies sold in Japan on PS4 alone. How far behind that do you expect Wilds will sell on PS5 and PC combined?

I wouldn't read too much into MediaCreate/Famitsu's numbers without taking into account PS digital and PC. Street Fighter 6 had an abysmal opening and disappeared from the physical charts quickly, and yet we know it passed a million.

Edit: I keep forgetting about Xbox. It should add some 50k+ lol. World didn't launch on Xbox in Japan.

The best selling PS5 game in Japan as of yet is FF XVI that probably sold around 700k digital and physical sales included. I could see MH Wilds doubling that number on PS5, but it depends on how many Japanese will buy the game on PC instead of on PS5. But there is no chance that Wilds match World sales on PS in Japan, PC will need to do the lifting to get Wilds competitive with World in Japan.

But to be fair to Capcom, they have long since stopped caring about the Japanese market, they are all in on other regions now. Resident Evil sells next to nothing what it used to do in Japan and are instead expanding in other countries.

PC will cannibalize sales like the PS4 version of Dragon Quest XI cannibalized the 3DS version (and yet both versions combined couldn't come close to DQIX DS numbers, and the same can happen with Wilds vs World). We rarely get any Japanese digital numbers or splits for anything. Last we got them was Earth Defense Force 6 and Ys X, neither game had a PC version. Ys X had very strong digital legs on Playstation, probably because retailers didn't restock enough. Famitsu/MediaCreate's figures are misleading.