Monster Hunter lead producer agrees PC gaming is key for Japanese games: "There are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan"
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One of the big shifts the game industry has seen over the past decade is that many Japanese developers are now fully embracing PC versions of the their games. While Capcom took some time to warm up to day-and-date PC releases for Monster Hunter, as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Monster Hunter Wilds apꦺproaches the studio's fully embracing the platform.
As part of our recent in🐬terview with the Monster Hunter Wilds devಌs, we asked producer Ryozo Tsujimoto if he'd agree that PC is a major growth platform for Japanese games. "Yeah, there are more players than ever playing on PC, including in Japan," Tsujim꧂oto said. "so we definitely see room for the series to capture new players who haven't tried it before if that's their cho𝔉sen platform."
That's part of why Capcom was so keen to implement♎ crossplay in Wilds, so that "the choice ꧂is yours on which platform you want to play with, and then [you can just] go online and hunt with your friends."
Monster Hunter in particular has found big success on PC. Comparing peak concurrent players on SteamDB is very much an unscientific process, but it helps illustrate just how well Monster Hunter has done on the platform. The recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Monster Hunter Wilds beta reached a peak of 463,♌798 players, eclipsing the peak of the megahit Helldivers 2. And yeah, the beta's free, but Monster Hunter World hit a peak of 334,684 at its launch, eclipsing the biggest number that Skyrim or Starfield ever managed.
Capcom's been taking some extra steps to give PC players a good experience with Wilds, reducing the game's system requir♌ements and releasing a big ol' benchmarking tool just ahead of the recent beta. Here's hoping Japanese develꦏopers keep up this kinജd of support for the platform.
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