Capcom finally takes Monster Hunter Wilds performance seriously as sales dwindle

Capcom recently confirmed that Monster Hunter Wilds has faced a severe sales drop-off after its launch in early 2025. The game has struggled to attract new players on PC in large part due to long-standing performance issues. Capcom has made a number of empty promises about improving technical performance and unfortunately, it doesn't sound like things are going to change anytime soon based on the latest statements. 

The good news is, Capcom is finally starting to say something meaningful about optimisation. The bad news is that things won't change particularly fast, which indicates that this problem has been ignored for a long time.

In a Steam Community Update posted this week to the Monster Hunter Wilds page, game director, Yuya Tokuda, said that the development team is “carefully reviewing” the feedback from all of the negative Steam reviews and they are now “working hard to implement improvements”. However, the statement does also go on to warn that this will be a long process:

“We apologize for the time some improvements may take, but we are committed to delivering a more enjoyable and satisfying gaming experience, so we greatly appreciate your patience.”

In particular, the development team is looking to reduce CPU load in an effort to improve native frame rates. In this instance, native frame rate means the frame rate you have prior to any additional effects like Frame Generation. Monster Hunter Wilds has been widely criticised for relying on Frame Generation to achieve smooth frame rates.

CPU optimisations will begin to drop into the PC version of the game with Title Update 4, which arrives sometime this Winter. The development team also want to introduce additional GPU-bound optimisations as well.

In the meantime, those with the hardware needed to avoid performance pitfalls, will be able dive into expanded end-game content, including a set of new hunts for HR100 players and higher.

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KitGuru Says: Performance does need to improve, especially if Capcom wants people to buy any kind of future expansion for this game. 

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