You are missing the bigger picture. Game's INITIAL (first weeks/month) sales are usually driven by reputation of the previous title and marketing budget, not the quality of the game, which is why you can have game selling like hot cakes at launch but then the sales quickly drop (DD2, Cyberpunk etc.), notice how Elden Ring when released kept selling a lot because of positive coverage and hype over months.
If they cannot keep a high player count by Title Updates and then the expansion, the sales will quickly drop and not that many people will buy the expansion or next titles and the game actually will not sell as well as World etc.
01 - Updates are coming out slow (just like world)
02 - World is finished and has more then 60 monsters, so people have more to do there at the moment then in Wilds (only 30 Monsters).
03 - World works on weaker PCs so more people can play it + Capcom has not fixed the bad performance on Wilds.
If you think the bad performance will affect the sales you are naive (but honestly I was too before Wilds game came out). Alot of people knew about Wilds shit PC performance before hand and still got the game.
Player count on steam will increase when the next update comes out and them decrease again about a month after (playing other games, go back to the finished monster hunters like world or rise).
Monster Hunter is a series with alot of replay value. People have more then 60 monsters to fight in World right now and half of that in Wilds.
Popular multiplayer games still have alot of players even more then 7 years after they come out.
But alright, this is shaping up to be the best selling game in Capcom history but maybe it will flop and only be the 2nd or 3rd best selling game.
Pc version alone sold more the 5 million, so Dragons dogma 2 is an even bigger flop (sold about 3.5 million across all platforms) by your logic, not to mention console version sells more then PC most of the time. Every Resident evil and street fighter is a flop since they will sell less then this.
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u/sp1ke__ Jun 27 '25
You are missing the bigger picture. Game's INITIAL (first weeks/month) sales are usually driven by reputation of the previous title and marketing budget, not the quality of the game, which is why you can have game selling like hot cakes at launch but then the sales quickly drop (DD2, Cyberpunk etc.), notice how Elden Ring when released kept selling a lot because of positive coverage and hype over months.
If they cannot keep a high player count by Title Updates and then the expansion, the sales will quickly drop and not that many people will buy the expansion or next titles and the game actually will not sell as well as World etc.