The sentiment surrounding Monster Hunter Wilds, which faced heavy criticism for its lack of updates and optimization woes following its launch, has now been validated by its 'sales figures'.

Capcom released its Q2 2025 financial results (local time, June–September 2025) on the 29th. The report also detailed the company’s performance for the first half of the year (March–September 2025) and provided a breakdown of title sales.

What’s particularly eye-catching is the sales data for Monster Hunter Rise and Monster Hunter Wilds during this period. While Monster Hunter Rise, released in 2021, moved roughly 643,000 units, the February 2025 release of Monster Hunter Wilds managed only about 637,000. Some have dubbed this the most clear indicator of the Monster Hunter Wilds downward trend to date.

Monster Hunter Wilds is Capcom’s action-hunting title that launched on February 28. Living up to the series' pedigree, it initially showed a staggering daily peak of 1.38 million concurrent players at launch. However, persistent optimization issues, failures in curbing cheating, and the quality of post-launch content have caused its daily peak concurrent players to plummet, falling even behind Monster Hunter World. User reviews on Steam also suffered, hitting Overwhelmingly Negative at one point.

This decline is even more pronounced when looking at quarterly figures. With Q1 sales hitting roughly 477,000 units, the actual Q2 sales stalled at a measly 166,000. That is a roughly one-third drop in sales within just three months. A Metacritic score of 90 and 8 million units sold in just 3 days — it is rare to see a title of this magnitude nosedive so dramatically.

Meanwhile, the Monster Hunter series historically rolls out massive DLC a year or two after launch. With the one-year anniversary of Monster Hunter Wilds approaching, the real question is whether a major content update and overhaul can turn the tide.