Monster Hunter sells 1.5 million units in Japan! Plus: art!
December 4th, 2007 Chris "Kramez" Kramer
It’s a scientific fact* that everyone in Japan loves Monster Hunter almost as much as they like cute poop, square watermelons and the occasional inappropriately hot-pantsed robot who thinks he’s a boy.
The Capcom mothership in Osaka has firmed up this supposition with the official news that Monster Hunter Freedom 2 has become the first PSP game in Japan to ship over 1.5 million units since its release in February. MH is the first game to hit this number in Japan.
According to latest data we have here, the PSP currently sports an installed base of 6.5 million units in Japan. This means that 1 out of every 4 Japanese PSP owners has a copy of MHF2 in their collection. So, next time you’re sitting on a plastic tarp in Akiba, shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to play with.
Over 4.8 million units of various Monster Hunters have shipped planet-wide since the first game was released in 2004 on the PS2. In fact, for many Japanese gamers, Monster Hunter on Ps2 was one of their very first online console game experiences.
To pile on to the good news, the game also received the “Excellence Prize” in the Entertainment Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. MHF2 was singled out from over 2000 different entries from more than 40 countries, demonstrating its merits as art. In your face, Ebert!
* Not actually science, nor a fact.
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[…] Japan aren’t just crazy about Monster Hunter Freedom 2. They go bananas for Monster Hunter Freedom 2. But until now, we’ve rarely been able to express that feeling to you in numbers that matter. Thankfully, Capcom have provided us with some numbers that matter. According to them, the game has now sold over 1.5 million units at retail since launch. Consider, then, that there are an estimated 6 million PSPs in the wild in Japan, and you see that one in four own the game. Or 25%. Whichever way works best for you. Either way, that’s loads. [Capcom] […]
That’s amazing.. Now that we have such great numbers of people actively playing MHF2, can we PLEASE (officially) patch in online play? This game is just SCREAMING out for infrastructure play!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE see what could be done to patch it in.