Capcom has announced that Monster Hunter World has sold over 30 million copies, further cementing its lead as the company's best-selling title of all-time.
Monster Hunter Wilds had a banner week last week with the announcement of Monster Hunter Wilds: Ascendance and confirmation that a Nintendo Switch 2 edition of the game is in development. But it's hard to ignore that Wilds isn't exactly doing quite as well as Capcom probably hoped. While it became Capcom's fastest-selling game almost instantly, with over eight million copies sold within its first three days, since then, sales have not been able to keep that momentum off the back of what was basically a year of performance issues. Throughout 2025, we saw Monster Hunter Rise perform better than the new flagship title.
But one monster's loss is another's gain, as Capcom has announced that 2018's Monster Hunter World – which was already the company's best-selling game since 2019 – has now sold over 30 million copies (or an entire Persona series' worth of sales). Capcom's last update to the game's numbers said it had sold 22.1 million copies, but with the Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Master Edition it was at 29.6 million, so presumably it's the latter that has helped it pass the new benchmark.
It's hard to overstate just how big of a deal Monster Hunter World was for the franchise. Before then, it was a somewhat niche (albeit, huge in Japan) series that was putting out bangers near constantly, but being confined to the 3DS's uncomfortable control scheme really held it back. World allowed Capcom to bring people in and show them what the fuss was about, and now we're at the point where World and Rise sit firmly at the top of Capcom's best-sellers list, ahead of every Resident Evil game.
