Actually this is the first time i see the game, since release, not being in the top 10 global top sellers (and almost all the time it was top 5.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
According to SteamSpy , Monster Hunter world is now over 5M on Steam
- Thread starter Ryuichi Naruhodo
- Start date
- Status
Actually this is the first time i see the game, since release, not being in the top 10 global top sellers (and almost all the time it was top 5.
But that's also because launch sales are often the biggest influx of purchases. According to this, MH:W almost doubled it's total sales on PC in about a month compared to the previous two months it had been on sale.
I would maybe buy that for a story focused game, but not for a grindy loot focused multiplayer game like MH.
That method was fixed by Valve like 24-48 hours after it was made public.
This site keeps an history of the top selling games for each week:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/search/steam+charts
And by the first week of September is out of the top 10,
G-rank expansions always come out over a year after the initial releases... Not sure why people expected one so soon in the first place.
The influx of new players is still larger at launch, basically:
About 2 millions in 1 week vs making it to 5 millions in about 2 months(or even 1 month).
Not to mention World development have been longer than the usual MH game, so expect the same for G-Rank.
It has been for quite some time.
Even if they were wrong, the argument still made sense after years and years on PSP and 3DS with the fanbase of the franchise being nurtured there. It's reasonable.
This. They nurtured the fanbase for almost a decade in Japan for that and later a fanbase (even if way minor) in the west.
It was never about Nintendo but the handheld form-factor which gave a huge popularity to MH in Japan. It's why the argument existed in first place.
They made an effort to cater to people that play games for the story with World, though. Yes, the actual story is god awful, but the entirety of the game's structure is based around solo players and aside from Kirin, you will see every other monster the game has since you don't have much of a choice.
And the following week was in the top 10 https://se7en.ws/steam-charts-most-popular-games-8-14-september-2018/?lang=en
And for another week it was in the top 10 again https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-charts-most-popular-games-15-21-september-2018
I merely stating how it hasn't been continuously in the top 10.
If it sold 2 million week 1 than it's had a weird sales curve but looking at steamdb it did have a sale recently.
I guess I don't buy that people were all that interested in the story to care that intensely about it and not the mechanics of the game itself.
Of course, the question now of what's better for Capcom, G-Rank as DLC or as a separate $60 SKU like before?
The ads sold it as a big adventure game, so they knew who they wanted to bring in.
It's easy for fans to know what the series is all about, but they weren't selling 10 million+ to those folks.
Last edited:
And then some. Looking forward to how well RE2 and DMCV does for them, gouging by the reactions on here and online, they have a few more hits on thier hands.
Why would it be unrealistic?
Chinese player base is also on Steam for this game due to some debacle on WeGame, and that base alone was believe to track around 2 millions during launch week
They're not interested in the story, it's just playing the main game. By the time you complete the story you have fought every monster in the base game, a lot of people stop playing by then or start playing a lot less.
It would take them 3-4 years
They would release it eventually between 2022-2025
It's the new vgchartz.
MHW has sold very well, but we have no idea the number of copies sold.
When did the first sale start? It was pretty recent right? I know that a lot of my friends waited until a sale, even if it was "just" 20% off. So sales through Sep 31st probably wouldn't have the numbers with the discount.
It was recently. But unless the game was sitting in the top 3 that whole time, it wouldn't represent a huge amount of copies. Especially since "ballpark" in this case is give or take several hundred thousand.
I think like 2 weeks ago, Concurrent players skyrocketted back up to like 200k when it happened too.
Who is to say they didn't start back in January after launch and it comes out in January 2021? HMMMM?
It's incredible. You should read the thread about the huge amount of MAU's on Steam for more fun like this.
People said the exact same thing when steamspy said it sold 2m+ at launch. They were nowhere to be found once Capcom themselves confirmed that number.
Steamspy is inaccurate in the sense that getting specific numbers isn't possible anymore, but if it says a game has sold at least 5m then it's sold at least 5m. No amount of denying will change that.
People were pissed when it did well on XB1/PS4 as well. So fucking weird.
I'm kinda surprised a late (not very good) port did so well, but glad it did!
Lots predicted poor sales because 'its a portable franchise' or 'its a nintendo franchise' or 'open world will break it' and on and on. Tons of crow continues to be served by MHW.
I think they'll do both. MHW Ultimate as a $60 SKU, or $30 for G rank DLC for those that have it already.
Media Create and Famitsu also use algorithms. You don't think they talk to every single store in Japan do you?
People have been downplaying this games sales since January. I thought it would have stopped by now but nope.
I have asked the steamspy creator and he has responded with this in terms of accuracy in numbers:
20% percent off means almost or a million copies off. Though he says as much but not over 20%. So we can probably safely say that the game sold over 3 million copies, maybe even 4 which is a lot still.
20% percent off means almost or a million copies off. Though he says as much but not over 20%. So we can probably safely say that the game sold over 3 million copies, maybe even 4 which is a lot still.
I think they'd be better served with taking their time with a sixth-gen game to avoid some of the problems they ran into with World's content and variety concerns. I expect that the G-rank expansion for this game will make some strides on that front, but it will likely lean on a lot of older monsters to pull it off. Which is fine, since there are a lot of great and unique monsters waiting for the visual overhaul, but I know I'd rather see a sixth-gen game really go more in the direction that they went with for the new monsters in fourth-gen.
People are mad because they've been proven wrong about their notions of MH unable to have any real success outside of portables.
They'll do both. World for PS5/Scarlet launch in 2020 (with included G expansion released around the same time) then MH6/World 2 in 2022-23.
The Oct. 30 patch will address the texture streaming issue, along with few other tweaks outlined here.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/582010/announcements/detail/1689306165586025889
More to come!
Media Create and Famitsu tracks over 90% of the retails in Japan... if I'm not wrong one of them tracks over 95%.
SteamSpay tracks well... zero retail.
Are you really trying to compare them?
BTW the own SteamSpy creator comment ends the discussion... it is not accurate but you can continue believing a 100% guesstimate is as accurate as a 5-10% estimate based in 90-95% of real data.
- Status