Steam Accounted for More Than Half of Monster Hunter Wilds’ Total Dollar Sales in the U.S.

Monster Hunter Wilds is simply a smash deed crossed the globe, with an unthinkable 8 cardinal copies sold successful conscionable 3 days. In the U.S., Capcom’s enactment crippled is the best-selling crippled of 2025 truthful far, and it’s PC successful peculiar that’s dominating.

According to Circana, not lone was Monster Hunter Wilds the best-selling crippled of February, but motorboat period dollar income much than doubled the full Monster Hunter: Rise achieved during its March 2021 debut.

As you’d expect, Monster Hunter Wilds was the best-selling crippled of February crossed PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam. But here’s the absorbing stat: Steam accounted for much than fractional of Monster Hunter Wilds’ full dollar sales. That's contempt immoderate high-profile show issues connected PC that person led to a 'mixed' idiosyncratic reappraisal standing for Monster Hunter Wilds connected Steam.

Perhaps Monster Hunter Wilds’ PC occurrence shouldn’t travel arsenic a surprise, fixed PC has go progressively important for multiplatform releases. Speaking to IGN successful a caller interview, Strauss Zelnick, brag of Rockstar genitor institution Take-Two, said the PC mentation of a multiplatform crippled tin make 40% of wide sales, oregon adjacent much with definite games.

That stat came arsenic portion of a treatment astir the existent console generation. In the U.S., February video crippled hardware spending fell by 25% erstwhile compared to a twelvemonth ago, to $256 million. That’s the lowest February full for video crippled hardware spending since the $184 cardinal reached successful February 2020.

Zelnick pointed to the PC level arsenic increasing successful value portion publishers hold for Sony and Microsoft’s adjacent moves and with the Nintendo Switch 2 waiting successful the wings.

“We person seen PC go a overmuch much and much important portion of what utilized to beryllium a console business, and I wouldn't beryllium amazed to spot that inclination continue,” helium said. “Of course, determination volition beryllium a caller console generation.”

Monster Hunter Wilds is grounds of the trend, then. But it wasn’t the lone caller merchandise successful February to bash well. In fact, according to Circana’s data, the apical 4 best-selling games of February 2025 were caller releases, with Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, and PGA Tour 2K25 joining Monster Hunter Wilds. Other caller releases appearing among the month’s apical 10 best-sellers included Obsidian’s Avowed, which besides launched day-one into Game Pass, and Sega’s Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza successful Hawaii.

Circana said the motorboat period dollar income full Kingdom Come: Deliverance II reached successful February 2025 was much than 5 times higher than the archetypal Kingdom Come: Deliverance achieved during its February 2018 debut. Embracer Group, genitor institution of Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios, has already hailed the sequel’s income success.

February 2025 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. NEW Monster Hunter: Wilds - Capcom USA
2. NEW Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Plaion
3. NEW Civilization VII - Take-Two Interactive
4. NEW PGA Tour 2K25 - Take-Two Interactive
5. NBA 2K25 - Take-Two Interactive
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 - Microsoft (Corp)
7. NEW Avowed - Microsoft (Corp)
8. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza successful Hawaii - Sega
9. Grand Theft Auto V - Take-Two Interactive
10. Madden NFL 25 - Electronic Arts
11. Minecraft - Multiple Video Game Manufacturers
12. EA Sports FC 25 - Electronic Arts
13. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - Sony (Corp)
14. Red Dead Redemption II - Take-Two Interactive
15. Hogwarts Legacy - Warner Bros. Games
16. EA Sports College Football 25 - Electronic Arts
17. Helldivers II - Sony (Corp)
18. Elden Ring - Bandai Namco Entertainment
19. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero - Bandai Namco Entertainment
20. Astro Bot - Sony (Corp)

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