Monster Hunter Wilds is around the corner. Let's predict first week sales!

[Kyuu]

firebush03 said:

Kyuu said:

Wilds's quality is partly to blame, but Capcom conditioned gamers to buy their stuff dirt cheap. RE9 (the best received original RE since RE4) also quickly got outpaced by older RE's and even Devil May Cry 5 lol.

Are you saying that MHWilds hasn’t performed well commercially? From everything I can see, it’s well on pace to match or surpass the other most recent MH games, which were already major hits. 12M in less than two years is no small potatoes, especially with the price tag Capcom has been selling the game at.

I'm saying it was frontloaded and now I have doubts it will be able to reach Rise (forget World) without heavy discounting, a Switch 2 version, and major improvements. Even with these, it could be a challenge.

Rise and World quickly caught up to it in quarterly sales. World's Master Edition isn't tracked in the quarterlies, otherwise it's selling around as well as Rise despite being older and having no Switch version (passed 30 million and still going strong). Wilds is being overshadowed by an 8 and 5 year old games as well as their expansions. This pattern is distinctly "Capcom" and stems from their pricing strategy. But in Wilds' case, I think the quality and mixed reception are contributing factors also. It was more frontloaded than the standard full price Capcom game.