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Capcom : MHW has already achieved our target for the current fiscal year

Ryuichi Naruhodo

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This was posted in the recent Q&A in English

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/explanation.html

Monster Hunter: World (MHW below) has shipped 5 million units. Tell me how this title is performing against its target and about your methods for recognizing expenses.
We have not disclosed our target unit sales for MHW, however it has already achieved our target for the current fiscal year. Looking at recent sales trends for our major titles, we had anticipated a slower pace of first-year sales compared to previous entries in the series; however, its initial performance has exceeded our expectations. As the development cost of each of our titles is distributed across the title's lifetime unit sales target, we will recognize a portion of MHW's total cost of development proportionate to its Q4 sales.
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Guess it was obvious and Predictable at 5M , but it is always good to see confirmation from Capcom that the game achieved its Fiscal Year target ( [Current Fiscal Year Ending March 2018 )
 
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Bakercat

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It got a purchase out of me and I've never touched the series outside the demos. They never could grab me, but this game and it's presentation did. I'm thirty hours in and it's all I can think about now. I've now become a fan of this series. Also, very happy to see a full game at launch with free dlc later on. It's one of the main reasons I decided to buy. I wanted to support pro consumer practices. I may be old fashion, but I want a full game when I buy it.
 
ShinySunny

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Nice.
But they do need to release a DLC soon though to keep the hype going. One new area+3 monsters+1 elder.
The game came to a crawl at HR50+. You only play it to get Hero stone and the correct decoration atm. So there is no leg for the game after the first initial month.
 

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MHW is so great it met Capcom's target. A true feat.

To be clear I'm not sarcastic, it's just that Capcom's target are usually insane.
 
TheBeardedOne

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Congrats to all involved. It sounds like it's deserving of the success and I'm genuinely happy for them.

I just borrowed it from the library yesterday, but am worried it'll be too involved for me and hate starting games I don't finish. I only have it for a week, which also isn't a lot of time. I may pass, but respectfully.
 
Euler

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ShinySunny said:
Nice.
But they do need to release a DLC soon though to keep the hype going. One new area+3 monsters+1 elder.
The game came to a crawl at HR50+. You only play it to get Hero stone and the correct decoration atm. So there is no leg for the game after the first initial month.
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Yeah the endgame is kinda barebones compared to previous entries. Sadly the dlc is probably kinda weak until we get a proper G rank expansion.
 
Inuhanyou

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SolidSnakex said:
I mean, it's the fastest selling game in their company history. Who would've guessed that it could sell faster than Resident Evil games given that MH really didn't have much of a western presence before World?
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Your right about that. But i mean they were intending for this to be the end result, that's why they fashioned the game for the global audience. I guess its just strange they didnt have faith in the project on that level for what they were investing into it. In any case its good news.

I guess my real thought is what were their "realistic" expectations that the actual sales blew past
 
Crayon

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The word of mouth is very strong. I'm going to go get it. I don't want to wait anymore.
 

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Hell yeah dude. So happy it's successful!!!!!!
 
Devilgunman

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Inuhanyou said:
Your right about that. But i mean they were intending for this to be the end result, that's why they fashioned the game for the global audience. I guess its just strange they didnt have faith in the project on that level for what they were investing into it. In any case its good news.

I guess my real thought is what were their "realistic" expectations that the actual sales blew past
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It's not like they didn't have faith but more like they were being realistic. Nobody in their right mind would have predicted MHW to ship 5M in 3 days. For a niche genre outside Japan, I guess they expected 3M by fiscal year at most.
 

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Can't wait for Capcom to fuck up again repeatedly until another Monster Hunter hits and saves their asses - again.
 
Lady Lunalesca

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Gamer17

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congrats.

Switch will get a version of MH but not MHW . MHW is so demanding even on pro and X.
 
SolidSnakex

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Inuhanyou said:
Your right about that. But i mean they were intending for this to be the end result, that's why they fashioned the game for the global audience. I guess its just strange they didnt have faith in the project on that level for what they were investing into it. In any case its good news.

I guess my real thought is what were their "realistic" expectations that the actual sales blew past
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It doesn't mean that they didn't have faith in it. They wouldn't have moved it back to consoles if they didn't have faith in it. But the lifetime best sales for a single entry in this series has been just under 5m. And that's for an entire run for a game. In just a few weeks World has already eclipsed that. Even if they had high expectations it likely wasn't that it could become the best selling entry in less than a month. Look at big Japanese franchises. RE7 has yet to sell 6m. It took FFXV nearly two months to ship 6m. It took MGSV four months to ship that many units. World did it in two weeks. No one could've predicted that even if you were coming in with very high expectations.
 
HDMF76

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I actually wish they would add loads more to it and create a season pass.

Funny how games that I dont want one for all have them, and the one I would gladly drop another 30 quid on doesnt.
 
Inuhanyou

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SolidSnakex said:
It doesn't mean that they didn't have faith in it. They wouldn't have moved it back to consoles if they didn't have faith in it. But the lifetime best sales for a single entry in this series has been just under 5m. And that's for an entire run for a game. In just a few weeks World has already eclipsed that. Even if they had high expectations it likely wasn't that it could become the best selling entry in less than a month. Look at big Japanese franchises. RE7 has yet to sell 6m. It took FFXV nearly two months to ship 6m. It took MGSV four months to ship that many units. World did it in two weeks. No one could've predicted that even if you were coming in with very high expectations.
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that's true.
 
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Ryuichi Naruhodo

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If it reached 7M before the end of the fiscal year ( March 2018 ) , I guess at this pace it will be the best selling third party Japanese game in this generation
 
Lady Lunalesca

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HDMF76 said:
I actually wish they would add loads more to it and create a season pass.

Funny how games that I dont want one for all have them, and the one I would gladly drop another 30 quid on doesnt.
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This is the first time in years that capcom has shipped a base MH game and not the G Rank expansion versions in the US so I can understand why people can be disappointed with current end game.
 
Peru

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I'll repeat myself and say again, thank heavens it's a proper MonHun that blows up, saving us from Frontier and MH:Online.
 
Chaos2Frozen

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Monster Hunter, Kingdom Hearts and Granblue Fantasy (probably) will give the shot of life to the PS4 sales in Japan this year.
 
Bonejack

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Those quotes from the article about a Switch version are really sad to read. Not the part about the game and a possible port, but how they view it. No Capcom, Switch owners aren't different ... i don't expect anything but token support or smaller games like Megaman 11 from them if they still want to cling to these views.

Vishmarx said:
odyssey?isnt it a bit above 7 million now?
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Odyssey isn't third party.
 
MANUELF

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They never told us their expectations before release unlike any other high profile release
 
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