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Monster Hunter Stories 2

Capcom has announced a new sales milestone for Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin. Following its recent launch on PlayStation 4, the game has breached 2 million units sold across all platforms. Prior to reaching this recent milestone, sales figures had been estimated at 1.9 million units sold as of March 2024.

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin originally released almost 3 years ago, in July 2021. The first game in the spin-off RPG series, Monster Hunter Stories, also recently released on Switch.

Here is the full report from Capcom:

monster hunter stories 2 sales 1.4 million

Sales of Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin have exceeded 1.4 million copies, Capcom has confirmed. That news comes straight from the company’s latest financial report published today.

Capcom’s results for the nine months ended December 31, 2021 saw net sales at 88,163 million (up 35.9 percent year-over-year), operating income at 35,096 million yen (up 43.9 percent year-over-year), ordinary income at 36,148 million yen (up 50.1 percent year-over-year), and net income attributable to owners of the parent at 26,708 million yen (up 52.4 percent year-over-year). It said that sales for Monster Hunter Stories 2 as well as Resident Evil Village “continued to perform well”.

Monster Hunter Stories 2 sales

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin has sold over 1.3 million copies, Capcom announced today. That news comes directly from the company’s latest financial report.

Fox the six months ended September 30, 2021, Capcom said that its net sales rose by 66.4 percent. Operating income was also up 61.9 percent year-over-year. Net sales and all profit items all actually hit record levels for a second quarter.

monster hunter stories monsties

If you’ve played the Monster Hunter Stories series, you’re probably familiar with the term called “monsties”. That’s because these games have a unique term for its creatures. Rather than going with something simple like “monsters”, a new “monsties” term was created.

So how did that term come to be in the first place? Speaking with Waypoint, English localization editor Joseph Detwiler explained:

monster hunter stories 2 update 1.3.0

The new 1.3.0 update for Monster Hunter Stories 2 has just been made available. It includes new monsters, co-op quests, and subquests. A bunch of bug fixes have also been implemented.

Below are the full patch notes:

Capcom has announced a third content update for Monster Hunter Stories 2. Arriving on September 2, this new update will add 3 new Monsties and 4 new Quests. Check out a trailer for the new content below.

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

Here’s an interesting tidbit about Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin. In the game’s launch month – which was July – it has already outsold the first game on 3DS. In fact, it has actually more than tripled the lifetime sales of the original title.

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin came in strong on the just-released NPD charts for July. It managed to come in third for the month.

On July 19, Capcom announced that the game had already shipped over one million copies worldwide. 

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The next notable update for Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin is here. Capcom is now offering version 1.2.0.

New monsters, co-op quests, and subquests have been added. A couple of fixes have been implemented as well.

Below are the full patch notes:

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

Capcom has shared a new trailer for the next major update in Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin. The game is adding a co-op quest exclusive monster Kulve Taroth as well as Hellblade Glavenus and Boltreaver Astalos.

Here’s the video:

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin

Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin has shipped over one million copies worldwide, Capcom has announced. That’s data for the Switch and PC versions combined.

Here’s the full announcement:


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