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Circana: MH Wilds launch week sales were the largest since BLOPS 6, PC was the lead platform (US market)

pulicat

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Source: Mat Piscatella(Circana).

PC continues to be the main home for Capcom games.
 

BennyBlanco

aka IMurRIVAL69
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Lol the PC port is the worst version.

works on my machine
 

Bojji

Member
I have no clue how PC was the lead platform for this.... That game is running so badly on PC, I see no reason for someone to buy that version, like zero.

Until Capcom gets a dedicated team in there to work out those issues, a lot of their PC versions will continue to be hit or miss.

RE games before DD2 were great on PC. DD sucked and this one is even worse. Still on good enough PC it's better than console version.

I'm playing RE4 on PC right now (replay) and it's amazing, 120fps on max settings.
 
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lh032

I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
I have no clue how PC was the lead platform for this.... That game is running so badly on PC, I see no reason for someone to buy that version, like zero.

Until Capcom gets a dedicated team in there to work out those issues, a lot of their PC versions will continue to be hit or miss.
They probably learn the lesson this time keklol , imagine the Japanese player bought the game on their low ,mid range ooooffff and realise the "performance "
 
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Bojji

Member
Ironically , the pc port is the worst version at least for most of the mid range pc , and has the most drm as well.

Most people who bought this probably didn't know about issues. Next MH game won't have as good sales on PC for sure.
 

Hot5pur

Member
I think a lot of people were willing to tolerate bad performance given the gameplay is good.
Personally in today's climate of companies shipping half finished games I NEVER pre-order and ALWAYS wait for reviews. I imagine people who pre-order have OCD about money sitting in their bank accounts or something, especially for digital copies...like wtf guys
I will pick up Wilds once they've demonstrated an effort to fix up the performance and added a bunch more content, especially difficulty and pinnacle monsters or something.
It is sad that the PC base is the greatest in this case but they released something that has frame gen as a requirement to hit 60 FPS in some cases...yikes
 
Is not shocking when time and time Capcom had said that PC is their main platform.

It would be a really bad idea to make another MH timed exclusive to a Nintendo console.
 

Gaiff

SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
LOL, I would not determine this based on US sales...
Gonna be US+China. Those two markets alone will probably tip the scales notably in PC's favor even assuming the rest of the world leans more towards consoles. I'm sure it's much stronger on PS5 in Japan, but enough to offset China and the US? I wouldn't bet on that. The first week at least. It still has tons of negative reviews. This can't be good for its longevity.
They probably learn the lesson this time keklol , imagine the Japanese player bought the game on their low ,mid range ooooffff and realise the "performance "
You think the market where the most popular platform is the Switch care about performance and visuals? lol.
 
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Mibu no ookami

Demoted Member® Pro™
It's going to be even worse for PS5 in the EU and Asia regions.

PS5 has a massive advantage in Japan. Closing that gap would take tremendous numbers and we don't even have the splits for the US...

Gonna be US+China. Those two markets alone will probably tip the scales notably in PC's favor even assuming the rest of the world leans more towards consoles. I'm sure it's much stronger on PS5 in Japan, but enough to offset China and the US? I wouldn't bet on that. The first week at least. It still has tons of negative reviews. This can't be good for its longevity.

See above.

PC sales are clearly slowing as MHW takes a seat to Split Fiction and both are behind CS2 right now globally. The US is not going to be the determining factor for whether or not this sells better on one platform or another. Probably more than half of the sales for this game are going to come from Japan.
 

RafterXL

Member
Wasn't the game primarily Nintendo for years before World?
The 8 million sales thread for this game multiple people said we were delusional for thinking it sold most on PC and that the series was closely related to Playstation.
LOL, I would not determine this based on US sales...
Then you don't understand the worldwide gaming landscape. The rest of the world is more PC centric than the US, not less.

PS5 has a massive advantage in Japan. Closing that gap would take tremendous numbers and we don't even have the splits for the US...
This hasn't been true in years. The PC platform is way bigger in Japan.

Japan sold 5.5 million PS5's. There were that many PC ONLY gamers 5 years ago, that means there was as many PC ONLY gamers in Japan, five years ago, as people who own a PS5. Almost 20 million people play PC games in Japan, and PC growth has been DOUBLE console growth in Japan for the last decade. There is no PS5 "advantage" in Japan.
 
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LordOcidax

Member
PC as a lead platform was not in my radar for this game… Things are changing quite fast. With what happened in Japan in the first week, now i think that PC is the lead platform worldwide… Kinda crazy.
 
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SweetTooth

Gold Member
PC as a lead platform was not in my radar for this game… Things are changing quite fast. With what happened in Japan in the first week, now i think that PC is the lead platform worldwide… Kinda crazy.

Yup it's changing so fast that MH can completely ignore Nintendo and sell record numbers on Playstation and PC
 

Gaiff

SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
PS5 has a massive advantage in Japan. Closing that gap would take tremendous numbers and we don't even have the splits for the US...



See above.

PC sales are clearly slowing as MHW takes a seat to Split Fiction and both are behind CS2 right now globally. The US is not going to be the determining factor for whether or not this sells better on one platform or another. Probably more than half of the sales for this game are going to come from Japan.
We saw a peak of 1.387M on Steam on the first or second day. Capcom then reported 8M sales. This means at one point, at least 17% of users were on PC all at once. Probably much higher since they hadn’t yet sold 8M when this happened.

I think you’re massively overestimating Japan. How many PS5s sold there? 7M? This game will move units, but Japan would need to do some insane numbers to offset China and the US, both of which are much larger markets with several times their population.

Half the sales coming from Japan is pretty much impossible unless you think the attach rate is something unprecedented like over 70%.

Edit: Yeah, absolute lunacy:



Not enough PS5s in Japan to sell more than half.
 
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Mibu no ookami

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We saw a peak of 1.387M on Steam on the first or second day. Capcom then reported 8M sales. This means at one point, at least 17% of users were on PC all at once. Probably much higher since they hadn’t yet sold 8M when this happened.

I think you’re massively overestimating Japan. How many PS5s sold there? 7M? This game will move units, but Japan would need to do some insane numbers to offset China and the US, both of which are much larger markets with several times their population.

Half the sales coming from Japan is pretty much impossible unless you think the attach rate is something unprecedented like over 70%.

You're underestimating the digital PS5 sales in Japan as well as the PC Japan sales while probably overestimating Chinese sales.

Maybe half was a bit hyperbolic, but my point stands that without knowing the splits, simply assuming that because PC was the lead system in the US that that determines anything on its own is a stretch.
 

pulicat

Member
PS5 has a massive advantage in Japan. Closing that gap would take tremendous numbers and we don't even have the splits for the US...
China is bigger than Japan for MH Wilds. The time has changed where the most popular country for MH is no longer Japan but China unless it's portable edition like Rise where Switch version alone has cleared 5m.

2020 leak numbers with PC staggered release.

PC USA: 1.616mil
PC EU: 1.570 mil
PC Asia: 2.531 mil
Sony USA: 2.392 mil
Sony EU: 1.702 mil
Sony Asia: 1.414 mil

With day 1 release on PC
USA PC version has sold more than the PlayStation version, and it's going to be much worse in other regions for PS5.
 
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Gaiff

SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
You're underestimating the digital PS5 sales in Japan as well as the PC Japan sales while probably overestimating Chinese sales.

Maybe half was a bit hyperbolic, but my point stands that without knowing the splits, simply assuming that because PC was the lead system in the US that that determines anything on its own is a stretch.
I edited my post and added this:



It’s not just that PC was the lead system in the US. It’s that at one point, over 17% of the players were on PC at the same time. Unless you think 90% of the user base was logged in at once, PC would be the leading platform by a comfortable margin. Besides, it’s not like there are no Japanese PC players either.

The one thing that could offset this are the garbage user reviews that will surely hurt in the long run if they continue.

Edit: 1.30M on day and 1.38M on day 2. Even assuming they sold 5M on the first day, you’d be looking at over a quarter of all the players being on PC at once. Yeah, Japan with its 7M PS5s isn’t beating that. In the long run, if the shitfest on PC continues, then I could see PS pulling away. First week though? Data suggests PC is ahead.
 
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RafterXL

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You're underestimating the digital PS5 sales in Japan as well as the PC Japan sales while probably overestimating Chinese sales.

Maybe half was a bit hyperbolic, but my point stands that without knowing the splits, simply assuming that because PC was the lead system in the US that that determines anything on its own is a stretch.
No one is underestimating Japan, you're just massively overestimating them. Monster Hunter Worlds was literally the best selling game in Japan the year it was released and it still only accounted for 25% of total sales. MHRise sold 75% of it's copies before the PS version even released. The splits don't even matter. If every single PS5 owner from Japan bought this game, it still wouldn't account for 50% of the sales.
 
The time has changed where the most popular country for MH is no longer Japan but China unless it's portable edition like Rise where Switch version alone has cleared 5m.
Things have changed for Capcom, Rise was a 9 months timed exclusive on Switch, things would have been different if the game was launched Multiplatform day 1, just like Wilds.
 
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RafterXL

Member
Gained over PS5?

You got any concrete evidence of that considering the PS5 is ahead of the PS4 launch aligned in Japan.
Yes, gained. And, yes, i have evidence.
KADOKAWA ASCII also says there were 16 million PC game users in Japan in 2021 – among a total gamer base of 55.4 million people (Japan’s population was around 126 million last year).

Here, too, a comparison provides more context: in 2015, the same company identified just 11 million PC gamers in Japan – so the number grew a whopping 45% by 2021 (the total gamer population back then was just 45 million – so it grew by just 22%).

Going back to 2021, KADOKAWA ASCII says of those 16 million PC gamers in Japan, 4.5 million played exclusively on that platform (while the others also played on consoles or smartphones).

That number is up an incredible 100% up from 2.2 million PC-exclusive Japanese gamers in 2015.
Pc gaming grew at double the rate of gamers in general, which includes PS gamers. This was 2021, PC gaming grew another 43% in Japan compared to console sales growth of 3% in 2022. PC gaming revenue TRIPLED in Japan between 2019 and 2023, outpacing everything else in the country. Unless you think that a market that has consistently grown, faster than any other gaming market, for the past decade suddenly declined in 2024, yes, the PC is gaining ground and taking market share from other gaming platforms in Japan.
 

yurinka

Member
Wasn't the game primarily Nintendo for years before World?
No. It debuted in PS2 with some games, later it got its sales peak in PSP selling more there than it did later on Wii or 3DS. Then it went back to PS home consoles with Worlds, exploding in sales and selling more than what it did later with Rise on Switch. Started in PS, had more games in PS and sold more in PS.
 

Topher

Identifies as young
No. It debuted in PS2 with some games, later it got its sales peak in PSP selling more there than it did later on Wii or 3DS. Then it went back to PS home consoles with Worlds, exploding in sales and selling more than what it did later with Rise on Switch. Started in PS, had more games in PS and sold more in PS.

There were a few titles only on Nintendo DS/3DS for years before World. I’m not talking about sales
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
they should start acting accordingly and get some people that actually know how to properly make PC ports.
I’ve tried researching it and a lot of people are badmouthing the pc version but all in all when you get into it, the only problem there is is people running the texture and shadow settings too high for the amount of vram they have. That’s it. After lowering it, game runs good.
I am still not convinced this is such a legendary bad pc port or are stubborn mid range pc gamers refusing to lower a setting or two.
 
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