Capcom has released its latest bi-annual financial report, revealing among other interesting tidbits that Monster Hunter: Wilds sales have drastically fallen. In fact, it has fallen so much that Monster Hunter: Rise outsold it in recent months.
The financial report, which can be read in full on the official Capcom website, shows a table on page six breaking down game sales across the first half of this financial year. This table shows that Monster Hunter Wilds has sold 637,000 units across all platforms so far in the financial year. For comparison, the prior game in the series Monster Hunter: Rise has sold 643,000.
Why has Monster Hunter; Wilds suffered such a loss in momentum? Well, while the game started off incredibly popular, substantial technical issues following its release hampered its continued growth. Capcom’s president even put blame on how expensive the PS5 was for lacklustre console sales.
The fiscal report does contain far more interesting nuggets, even if you stayed glued to the aforementioned table. Devil May Cry 5 continues to sell well all these years later, racking up a lifetime sales figure of 10,784,000 which is not shabby whatsoever. Street Fighter 6 is doing well too, selling an additional 1,085,000 units so far in the financial year, indicating continued interest in the competitive fighting game.
Of course, the table is packed full of various modern Resident Evil games, each seeming to have substantial staying power. Resident Evil Village is the top performer so far in the year, and even the Resident Evil 3: Remake (which personally speaking is a tad underrated) pulled off 697,000 sales this far into the financial year.
Though for a more macro look at how Capcom is doing, all one needs to do is take a look at page two of the presentation, where major takeaways are listed as: “Revenue and profit grew year-on-year across all segments. Achieved highest-ever total and catalog unit sales for a H1 period. Favorable performance in Amusement Equipments business.” So while Monster Hunter: Wilds isn’t doing so hot, the company as a whole seems to be doing quite well.
