Capcom's 'Monster Hunter World' Steam Price Cut and Updates

TapTechNews May 18th news, Capcom's 'Monster Hunter: World' announced a permanent price reduction on Steam, TapTechNews summarizes as follows:

'Monster Hunter: World': $29.99 → $21.99

'Monster Hunter World: Iceborne': $39.99 → $29.99

'Monster Hunter World: Iceborne' Digital Deluxe Edition: $49.99 → $36.99

'Monster Hunter World: Iceborne' Master Edition: $59.99 → $43.99

'Monster Hunter World: Iceborne' Master Edition Digital Deluxe Edition: $69.99 → $50.99

On May 14th, Capcom also announced that the global cumulative sales of the 'Monster Hunter' series exceeded 100 million copies, among which the sales of 'Monster Hunter: World' have exceeded 25 million copies (including Iceborne) and continue to set new records, and the sales of 'Monster Hunter: Rise' exceeded 15 million copies, and the sales of 'Monster Hunter: Rise Sunbreak' exceeded 8 million copies.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of 'Monster Hunter', the latest work in the series, 'Monster Hunter: Wilderness', will land on PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series platforms in early 2025.

In fact, Golem previously reported that Capcom had already started the development work of 'Monster Hunter: Wilderness' in 2019, meaning that this game has been brewing in Capcom's development laboratory for 6 years.

Golem exposed that the game producer 'completely let go' (complete freedom) of the development of 'Monster Hunter: Wilderness', meaning that this game will contain many of the abandoned ideas and gameplay of 'Monster Hunter: World' before.

In addition, Golem said in the exposure that 'Monster Hunter: Wilderness' will be a 'completely open world'. TapTechNews previously reported that 'Resident Evil 9' and 'Monster Hunter: Wilderness' will be similar to 'Dragon's Dogma 2', adopting a new open-world technology based on the RE engine.