Monster Hunter: World is Capcom’s best selling game, ever

Update, August 26: Monster Hunter: World is now officially Capcom's biggest-selling game ever, with 10 million copies sold worldwide. That includes digital sales since the game's launch on Steam, which are estimated to account for at least 2 million copies sold. Monster Hunter: World was already an astronomical success almost as soon as it launched August 9. It quickly rose to the number four slot on Valve’s client by current player numbers, and cracked the top ten of Steam’s biggest concurrent player counts - ever. Hours after it launched on Steam, concurrent player counts exceeded 200,000, putting Monster Hunter just behind Steam’s regular top three trio of PUBG, Dota 2, and CS:GO. Even in fourth place, that puts Capcom’s latest beyond the likes of GTA5, Rainbow Six Siege, and even massive free-to-play titles like Warframe - it’s astronomical degree of success no matter how you slice it. You can watch the numbers rise on Steam for yourself. Steam Charts keeps track of all-time peak user counts, and Monster Hunter: World is already in the top ten. Purely by player count, that makes Monster Hunter the biggest new Steam game of 2018. It’s also already surpassed any other Japanese game in Steam history, and by extension it’s Capcom’s biggest PC title, too.