The high cost of a PS5 is putting some pressure on Monster Hunter Wilds sales, Capcom president Haruhiro Tsujimoto says, with the strong first-month sales apparently in spite of this barrier to entry.
Nikkei Gaming interviewed the Capcom president in May this year, but only just published it, so his comments are mainly in the context of Wilds’ first month sales–which topped 10 million units in an unprecedented success for Capcom. Despite the game’s strong first month Tsujimoto said that the high price of Monster Hunter Wilds’ “main platform,” the PS5, was an “unexpectedly large” barrier to achieving this target.
The exec also pointed to the success of the Switch 2 and its moderate price to emphasize his point–though didn’t say anything about the potential for a Switch 2 port for Wilds.