Monster Hunter Wilds had a sizzling begin earlier in 2025 on its technique to changing into one of many best-selling video games of the 12 months. Nonetheless, Capcom’s franchise has hit some critical turbulence within the type of declining gross sales, which can be why the writer is releasing Monster Hunter Wilds’ growth before anticipated.
Capcom has moved up the discharge of Wilds’ growth from the tip of September to August 13. This replace will introduce a brand new stage of problem, a brand new rewards system, changes to weapons steadiness, and extra.
An replace on launch date and content material of replace Ver.1.021
The growth of endgame content material which was initially deliberate as a part of Title Replace 3 in late September will now be launched forward of schedule as a part of the Ver.1.021 replace. To accommodate this modification, this replace… pic.twitter.com/aQF1oFMCFR— Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter) July 29, 2025
Capcom has additionally shared its quarterly report for investors, and the numbers aren’t good for Monster Hunter Wilds. Between April 1 and June 30, Wilds offered solely 477k copies, which was solely barely above its predecessor, Monster Hunter Rise, with 389k copies. Even Satan Might Cry 5 outsold Monster Hunter Wilds in that interval, with 1,782,000 copies. The excessive quantity for that sport could also be because of the Netflix anime adaptation.
In accordance with Capcom’s report, Monster Hunter Wilds has offered 10,585,000 copies since its launch earlier this 12 months. There have been indicators that gamers weren’t glad with Wilds, particularly the PC port. Monster Hunter World had extra Steam gamers than Wilds earlier this summer season. Gamers additionally left numerous unfavourable critiques on Steam over Wilds’ efficiency points and lack of endgame content material.
Monster Hunter Wilds skilled a rise in gamers on Steam after Capcom’s most up-to-date main replace, however not all the sport’s points had been addressed. It stays to be seen if the brand new growth will flip issues round for Monster Hunter Wilds.