Monster Hunter World is by far Capcom’s biggest game with over 30 million units sold

While the most recent entry in the series has been mired with plenty of controversies, the Monster Hunter franchise has had a huge resurgence over the past 10 or so years thanks in part to the explosive success of 2018’s Monster Hunter World. Already Capcom’s best-selling game of all time, the co-op focused action-RPG has now reached a new milestone – officially selling over 30 million units.

Taking to Twitter to make the announcement, the official Monster Hunter page confirmed that: “Monster Hunter: World has reached a combined 30 million units sold! A massive thank you to all of you, our faithful pards!”

The ‘combined’ sales in which they are referring to brings together both the sales of the base game as well as units sold via the ‘Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition’ – which included both base game and its expansion. For context, Iceborne alone sold over 16 million units, making the expansion Capcom’s 5th best-selling ‘game’ of all time.

While Resident Evil 2’s remake will likely surpass it soon, Capcom’s second best-selling game of all time is another Monster Hunter – Rise – currently sitting at 18.6 million. Similar to World, its ‘Sunbreak’ expansion is also a Capcom best-seller at 11.3 million units sold.

Last and also least, the most recent entry in the series, Monster Hunter Wilds, continues to see relatively slow sales following its explosive launch, currently landing at 11.4 million

Regardless of which game is right at the top, it is quite clear that by this point Monster Hunter is one of Capcom’s biggest franchises. It will be interesting to see what the team have planned for Wilds and beyond – and whether any future title will manage to reach the heights of MH: World.

KitGuru says: What do you think of MH: World so many years later? Is it aging better than Wilds? Between these two and MH: Rise, which entry is your favourite? Let us know down below.

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