Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Passes Four Million Global Sales

This is most likely the reason for no announcements for MHX. They are still getting plenty of sales in USA and Europe

If any game deserved this success, it's MH4U. It's just an amazing Monster Hunter game. I really hope Nintendo keeps it on their platforms.

Me and my friend bought this a few days ago. It's been a blast.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is easily my most played game of 2015. I still haven't even touched Majora's Mask 3D and I bought that game the same release day as MonHun. raaaawrrrr~

my son and I are still playing MH3U!!! but i promised him MH4U for xmas so then we will finally join the masses LOL!

For people that haven't ever liked a MH game...I used to be one of you, I hated the MH games on PSP, they threw so much stuff at me that I never hooked. MH4U is totally different, it's a really welcoming experience for MH noobs like me and you should really try it out, it's a great experience...and if you manage to get some friends over that also have the game, you're gonna have a blast of a time, it can also be played online, but nothing beats being able to locally play with your friends while snacking and drinking some beers.

I love monster hunter. Nintendo should finance capcom to create a great one for nx at launch.

@DarthNocturnal There is. They have been using a safer strategy to increase its popularity overseas: They launch the game in Japan, where people love it enough to dismiss possible mistakes from Capcom, get their feedback, make a better version from it and launch it outside Japan. That way, the chance of people trying and not liking is reduced, not mention the hate over yearly releases.

Not sure when they will think it grow enough for a more bolder strategy (that is, yearly releases here too), but more than half sales coming from Japan alone means it has a lot of space to grow.

I'm not one of those 4 million. The demo killed it for me.

@bezerker99 That was me too till the death of Iwata. Since it was the only console Zelda game I've never beat I dedicated beating it to him. Glad I did as I finally beat it.

@WanderingPB Maybe it's time I introduce my son to Monster Hunter? I think he would love it! We are currently doing a play through of Hyrule Warriors.

@Spoony_Tech ABSOLUTLEY!!! my son is nine and we have been playing for the last 2 years! it builds teamwork and being able to bring down those monsters together are so satisfying because you both worked hard together plus you will watch him get better each time! Im primarily a DS but my son's a beast with the Heavy Bowgun and im not ashamed to admit it but better than me LOL! i love playing MH but playing with others MH is fantastic!!! i hope to hear great stories from the adventures you have with your son in the world of MH!

@DarthNocturnal it wasn't the lack of resources, I just found the game play rather annoying and hard to see exactly what was going on with how the camera moved. It was more frustrating than fun.

Put in almost 1400 hours since it released in Feb. and no signs of slowing down. Gotta get them relic armor & weapons xD

Very nice to see the game selling very well, hopefully this means Cross will get localized soon!

@ikki5 You found out about the lock-on camera? Tapping on the monster icon on your touchscreen will let you focus on the monster by pressing the left shoulder button. I've found that made hunting a lot more fun. (But maybe you did know about that and still didn't like it, which can happen.)

It's ridiculous this isn't on Wii U. I hate handhelds.

I love this series, though have put the least amount of time into MH4U so far. Not because it's not an amazing game, but because I have 2 young children who I swear know when I go to into an online room and wake up which forces me to stop. But an amazing game people should try out if they haven't.

A friend of mine gave me MH3U a while back and I just couldn't get into it. It was fun enough playing the game with him and beating up the monsters, but the water fights were a royal pain on the old 3DS and I felt lost in the village. I figured I'd give the series another chance with 4U and at least have fun hunting with my friend again. Unfortunately the latter didn't quite work out due to his work schedule going crazy, but 4U completely turned the series around for me. I even got 3U on sale for the Wii U and it's playable now that I understand things better, though a bit jarring going back to before jump attacks and mounting. I can't wait for HMX and all the amazing looking things I've been seeing about it.

@WanderingPB Well he's 8 and I've been holding back some questionable games but I think he's ready for this. I've been thinking about it for a while but now Seems like a good time.

It's a great game. Still would rather have it on a home console though. I ended up selling it because I couldn't get in to gaming on my handheld for that long.

@Spoony_Tech yeah i completely understand. I feel very strongly about having real conversations about the world with my son because honestly i would rather him hear about it from me then some lies he heard in school or by older immature people ( both kids and adults)...my son loves animals but he understand the fantasy that MH provides and the frustration of those ridiculous rare drops LOL! i believe that being a father that will take the time to explain to him about life and play video games with him will create a solid foundation of trust and courage i wish you and your family the best my friend

I love MH4U. The sales success is a reflection of just how good this game is.

@Spoony_Tech That's great that you played and beat Majora's Mask in Iwata's memory.

I'm at 190+ hours so far into MH4U and still feel like I've just scratched the surface. Here lately it's all I have been playing.

Got back to playing it, last week. Still only High Rank.

Nice to see it sell so well. Nintendo need to make damn well sure they keep hold of this series.

I'm about 150 hours in to my copy and my youngest son just picked it up for his birthday. The game is above his head but he like tagging along for hunts so it's all good. Plus, I got my money worth for both of us out of my copy alone. I'm not done playing it, but I may be finally ready to jump into another game.

They better give us Cross, because Amatsu STILL hasn't been localized yet. And she's from Portable 3rd...
Also, give us Stories.

Well deserved. This is by far my favorite game on the 3ds.

There aren't any subspecies announced for MH:X so my guess is there will likely be a G version. I take it people enjoy MH4U when they play it in groups. I made it all the way to G2 solo. I get the hint that the developer tampered with monster behaviour in 4U a bit more than in 3U. I can't complain but it was not fun farming frenzied G-rank Garugas. I completed the G-rank Gunner armor set and I am satisfied with it. Gunning allowed me to stay well away from G-rank Gravios' endless fire farts.

I've put in a lot of hours into both MH3U and MH4U, and there's still lots left to do in those games. They're great fun and the amount of content is huge. It's definitely worth trying the demo for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate even if you don't think you'll like it.

Currently, I've only recently got to the high rank quests on MH4U. I want to hurry up and get further so I can play the very late game tricky quests with others, but I won't rush things since I'll enjoy it more if I take my time.

Hopefully X will come out of Japan. I would play that game as soon as it's released.

After recovering from my addiction with MH3Tri and MH3U (both 3ds and Wii U), I been afraid to even play MH4U, much less the demo. Don't need to get suck back into that life again.

So if a 3rd party actually puts effort into their game for a Nintendo system and work with Nintendo to promote and publish it, it will do good numbers???
Who'd have thought good sales numbers would occur...!

With that said I couldn't stand playing MH4 on small screen, the action and camera angles really made it hard for me to enjoy the game.

If it was on a console, I'd probably like it.

But for those who like it, congrats!!

Cool. I don't play this series but good for them. Guess we'll see Monster Hunter 5 someday.

Not into it but its great to see a franchise that does well. Hopefully Nintendo buys Capcom so we can get first party Monster Hunter forever! lol!

Well deserved! I have had a lot of fun with MH4U, although, same as my experience with MH3U, I was unable to complete it. I got a little further than MH3U, but it's been sucked a lot of dedication and game time that I haven't touched many other games I bought. I'll give it a play again one day (provided MHX didn't come to west, which I'll switch to that if it comes), but for now I'm going through my increasing backlog.

First couple of days I played this game, I wasn't that amazed. I was always "trying" to do things, and it wasn't satisfactory. I left it. Then I decided to continue. And I realized these eartly days were just part of a longer-than-I-thought introduction. Now, I just can't stop. And I haven't played it online yet!!!

Not to be an elitist, but with many sales comes many noobs, which really ruins the online for me.

I love Monster Hunter. MH3U on the Wii U got me hooked and I've been hunting ever since. I'm glad to hear that MH4U is doing so well, but since I started on a console I prefer it a little more over the handheld (it's just easier to see things for me) so I hope when NX launches we get a MH game on that. Best of both worlds then.

It deserves it. I spent a decent amount of time with it for the first couple months after launch, but after that my attention drifted away to other things. Just need to get motivated and have the time on my hands to jump back in again.

The best game on the 3DS! No question!

@seb5049 ... Running into inexperienced players is going to happen with any franchise new players are introduced to. That's tolerable. What I can't stand is seeing HR rank armors with hacked Edgemaster gems, or Dual Blades with 24,000 points of paralysis lol. It's like they don;t even try to hide they're sad at the game and need cheats to be decent. Powersaves and custom quest hacks have ruined the online experience to where you only feel comfortable hunting with known friends, irl and online.

@hcfwesker I don't think most hackers/powersaves are there because they are bad at the game. It's because they don't have the patience for the long grind to acquire items or unlock quests. It took me 2 weeks to finally take down Gog for the first time, with the help of a few people here. It was frustrating and soured the experience for me moving forward. I don't use cheats but also understand why somebody would be inclined to, especially in this game. It's still is my favorite and most played game on the 3ds.

@shigulicious I know that is a reason as well, and quite frankly, monster hunter isn't the game for them. I can understand using it to get an immortal reactor or other rare item that just won't drop after many tries ... but not be HR999 with only 40 hours of gameplay, or DB's that cause a monster to sleep every 5 seconds. There are limits. Problem is once you hack for one thing and something is handed to you, why stop there. And that's where alot of these players took it to and abused it to the max.

We be Monster Huntin' while they Monster Frontin' !

Definitely well deserved. MH4U is an amazing game. I hope this means they will continue to bring them West.

Bring it back on Console too !

@seb5049 I don't know how they do it, either. Like I get that even skilled players sometimes have off days, but there is no reason why anyone in G Rank would have so much trouble with High Rank hunts.

And for goodness sake, if you died twice, do NOT come back to the battle. Go gather or something. You'd think everyone would have sense enough to do that, at least. My guess is that they're trying to prove that they don't suck, but it ends up causing more trouble, anyway.

@XCWarrior I have this exact same problem. So online people, don't be hard on those of us who drop out at weird times, or just do one and done hunts online. We probably have kids!

I would also suggest that those who don't like the game after early stages try out some different weapons. The game plays remarkably differently depending on which weapon you use. I was not at all sold on the game using melee weapons. I thought early on that maybe you needed to know which weapons were best for which monsters and master them all, and it was too daunting. I had also heard that gunning was "too complicated" and that as a noob, I should stick so DB and SnS. It wasn't until I convinced myself to give the bow a shot (pun intended) that I realized I loved the game.

Also, I'm terrible with it, but everyone should try the gunlance at least once. Whoever came up with that idea is someone I would like to meet.

Great that MH4U is a success. It's probably the most hours I've ever put into a single game. It has actually inspired me to go back and put some more time into MH3U (which I oddly find much easier than MH4U, probably just because I'm in the earlier stages).

@Genesaur @hcfwesker @shigulicious I am HR7 (after nearly 200 hours of gameplay, though most of that is single player), have played all of my online quests with randoms, and have never encountered any of these hackers or bad players at G Rank. Almost every time I was with someone who kept failing it was because they were fighting monsters above their rank, or trying to rank up. We all get carted sometimes. Even when I play lower tier monsters, sometimes I get careless and find myself wallowing in shame at the base camp.

Would love to play this but I know it's a huge time sink. I wish I had games like this in my younger days when I had so much more time on my hands, I would have loved it. I think though for now I need to be thinking about Xenoblade Chronicles - have owned the game for ages but never got round to playing it yet.

@earthboundlink I always feel bad when I cart. It's like I can read the other hunter's minds and they are all dissapointed. The battles can be so intense! Playing with friends is much more casual. If I get back into the game soon, I would like to join you in hunting. I don't have any interest in battling the "end game" monsters but would enjoy hunting some early G ranks. The community from here has been a great experience for me.

@hcfwesker agreed

@shigulicious I feel bad when I cart too; everyone does. I've been the reason for loss on a few hunts (being the third cart; man that's rough). I always apologize in the gathering hall, and almost always the other folks will be really cool about it. I do the same when someone else carts. The way I see it, losing is how you get better.

Be glad to hunt with you someday, but having kids makes my online times pretty erratic. Never checked for a Nintendo Life forum for MH online hunts, because I always just jump on real quick while kids are napping without much thought. Still not at G Rank yet, but getting close. My goal is to hit G-Rank, and after that, just mess around in the game until the next one comes out.