Officially, Monster Hunter Wilds is targeting an incredibly vague '2025' release. But unofficially, fans are starting to believe that the action RPG is dropping sooner rather than later. This is primarily because of Capcom's current marketing flurry, which has seen the publisher release a steady supply of gameplay videos, day by day, for the last week or so. Said videos are going to lead right up until Wilds' showing at Gamescom on the 20th August.
Okay, so how would a bunch of videos lock the game into an early 2025 launch? Well, it's quite simple: Capcom's done this before. For Monster Hunter World, the marketing machine really kicked into gear roughly six months ahead of release — and it did so with almost the exact same strategy. Even back in 2017, Capcom was pushing short, weapon-based gameplay clips — just like it's doing now with Wilds.
Then you start joining the dots. What games has Capcom released in this fiscal year? Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. It's also got the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster lined up for September. It's highly likely that neither of these titles will sate the company's bottom line — not when it's been posting record profits year after year for close to a decade — and so it's completely logical to think that Monster Hunter Wilds will arrive before April 2025.
The early 2025 window certainly seems plausible, then — and so there's even a chance that we'll actually get a date during Gamescom in a couple of weeks. Don't let all of this speculation be in vain, Capcom!
Can you see Monster Hunter Wilds releasing within the first few months of 2025? Or are fans setting themselves up for disappointment? Get your hopes up in the comments section below.
[source gamesradar.com]
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Well Monster Hunter World released in January and so did Monster Hunter Rise, so I'd take a guess and say this game is also coming out in January.
@UltimateOtaku91 Came to say the exact same thing.
On a personal note I am ready to lose another significant chunk of time to a new Monster Hunter... again.
I really hope so.
Then next year will be a very cheap gaming year!
Capcom are big on the first Quarter releases, occasionally straying into the 2nd quarter, but you’ll find the majority of their big games target this period.
Street Fighter 5 - February
Street Fighter 6 - June
Dragon’s Dogma 2 - March
Deil May Cry V - March
Monster Hunter World - January
Monster Hunter Rise - March
Resident Evil 7 - January
RE2 Remake - January
RE3 Remake - April
RE Village - May
RE4 Remake - March
It looks like Capcom exclusively target the first half of the year for their big games, and the majority in Q1. I think RE6 was the last big game to get a H2 release.
I really need to get going on MH World before the player base moves over en masse.
It's kind of odd to draw a comparison between Wilds and World's marketing campaigns when World was revealed just 6 months prior to its actual launch. World was officially revealed for the first time at E3 2017 and then launched in January of 2018. Conversely Wilds was revealed all the way back in December of last year, which is already 8 months ago. The marketing between these two games could not be farther off
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