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Monster Hunter Rise Ships 13 Million Units, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Tops 6 Million

Monster Hunter Rise Ships 13 Million Units, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak Tops 6 Million - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 July 2023 / 3,412 Views

Capcom announced Monster Hunter Rise has shipped over 13 million units worldwide. This figure includes digital sales. 

This figure is up from 12 million units in February 2023, 11.7 million units in December 2022, 10 million units in July 2022, and eight million units in January 2022.

Capcom also announced Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has shipped over six million units worldwide. This figure includes digital sales.

"Monster Hunter Rise has now sold over 13 million units, with Sunbreak achieving more than 6 million units worldwide too!" reads a tweet from the official Monster Hunter Twitter account. "To our global community, thank you. Your amazing support and passion for Monster Hunter is felt by everyone on the team! Happy hunting!!"

Monster Hunter Rise released for the Nintendo Switch in March 2021, for PC via Steam in January 2022, and for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in January 2023.

Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak  released for the Nintendo Switch and PC  via Steam in June 2022, and for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in April 2023.

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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farlaff (on 30 June 2023)

Incredible numbers and probably very profitable, since the resources were apparently way lower than the ones spent to make MHW and IB. Also, this was a Switch exclusive for a long time. It would be nice to know the breakdown.

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Chazore farlaff (on 01 July 2023)

huh?, both games came out on Switch during 2022, with the other console versions coming out within 2023, I wouldn't say a "long time" per say.

What would seeing the breakdown do anyway?.

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brute Chazore (on 01 July 2023)

Rise came out March 2021.
It says it in the article...

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Chazore brute (on 01 July 2023)

Yes, and the PC came out the following Jan 2022... that's not a "long time".

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Kakadu18 Chazore (on 01 July 2023)

You said the game came out on Switch in 2022 and now you pretend like you were right.

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Kakadu18 Chazore (on 01 July 2023)

Seeing the breakdown would show how much the game sold on PC and other consoles and how the legs of the Switch version were. It does quite a lot for people who are interested in the numbers.
And Rise was fully Switch exclusive for 10 months and an additional 12 months Switch console exclusive.

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Chazore Kakadu18 (on 01 July 2023)

yes but why does that matter to the average joe on the internet, who isn't a shareholder?.

All it's ever done here is produce boastful discussion or console warring. if you're to be amazed at said legs, anyone can do so in their own time and not have to post about it, and if they do, it tends to fall into the two categories above (which I see as being problematic).

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Kakadu18 Chazore (on 01 July 2023)

I once saw an idiot on Twitter say, why does anyone care how much any console or game sells, it's just console warring. You sound just like that.

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farlaff Chazore (on 01 July 2023)

I don't now if you noticed, but this here site is called VGCHARTZ, unless I'm mistaken. You might be in the wrong place, darling.

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pikashoe Chazore (on 02 July 2023)

Are you seriously arguing against sales discussion on a website primarily dedicated to sales discussion.

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Chazore pikashoe (on 02 July 2023)

You have literal sales charts threads for that, and that's where it stays.

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Kakadu18 Chazore (on 02 July 2023)

This very article here is about sales and the whole website was created because of sales.

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pikashoe Chazore (on 02 July 2023)

Dude seriously? Take the L and stop embarrassing yourself even further.

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Chazore pikashoe (on 04 July 2023)

What L are you talking about?.

I've seen how this goes on this site, I've been here for years.
You look at the sales data and go "ah interesting", and that's it.

or you go the other route and store it some other time for some arguing point as to why X or Y game isn't on X/Y system.

It's not even an L, it's an observation and my own correction with "long time", because it wasn't even a long time since the other ports came out to begin with...

Also, going by forums discussions, talk about ONLY sales has largely dwindled over the years.

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Draconidas (on 30 June 2023)

I love MH!

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halil23 (on 04 July 2023)

Breakdown would probably look like :
Switch - 7 mil
PS4/5 - 5 mil
PC - 1 mil
xblock - .....
Without exclusive PS4/5 would have been easily on top!
For reference MHW sold over 22 mil with PS4/5 likely having around 18 mil of that sales!!

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farlaff halil23 (on 04 July 2023)

I would think the Switch numbers are higher than that. And that probably applies to Sunbreak as well.

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Slownenberg (on 30 June 2023)

Would love to know the Switch number. I'm guessing like 8+ million on Switch alone for the main game.

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DonFerrari (on 30 June 2023)

Those are great numbers, another IP that exploded in popularity in the latest entries.

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Zeruda-Hime (on 03 July 2023)

Monster Hunter Rise is the cheapest game on Nintendo e shop.👀

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